Here's the coffee table before:
And after! Including new rug and throw pillows:
The old entertainment center
Picked up this treasure at an antique store in town
(are all of you Tuconians aware that there are great antique stores in Tucson? There are!)
Painted:
Antiqued:
I love how the antiquing makes all the details pop out!
And in the house, complete with "family" sign I also painted:
p.s. is it too early for Christmas decorations? I didn't think so, my house is all decked out!
The chairs have had a few transformations
Here is the first change in 2008:
Now in 2010, love these fabrics! And no, they are not practical but who cares?
They make me happy when I look at them:)
(also, pre treated the fabric with stain guard and they wipe off pretty well!)
My kitchen wall. This used to have one picture on it.
I painted all the frames, many of them I already had so it didn't cost much!
(My christmas things are in there so its not completely how it looks normally but you get the idea)
Another wall of pics.
I love the oval frames and the round framed mirror was a great find at Goodwill!
No before pic of this little gem but it was brown/ugly.
Now it is my adorable end table!
My favorite compliment from anyone thus far was my friend who said, "I saw that before you painted it and I honestly thought it was way ugly and it looks great now!" She didn't have the vision!
This wall is still under construction. Tracy is making me a fat white frame for my timp pic for Christmas, can't wait!! And I have a cool framed scripture to go where the Christmas sleds are now. The little thing on the right is my collection of antique finds at the local stores.
Oh, and my garage during the chaos.
I knew somehow I was going to organize it to fit our new van when it came.....
And here it is: the Swagger Wagon! The boys think it is so cool, even cooler than Daddys truck! Probably just because it is newer,
Hope you enjoyed the tour!
My painting ideas came from www.allthingsthrifty.com Check it out.
The whole place was abandoned at one point and wild animals were living inside. They did major restoration on the whole thing.
The Indians come to set up little eateries in the stalls on the mission grounds. There were about 7 or 8 stalls and all of them had the exact same menu. Fry bread, fry bread with sugar, fry bread with cinnamon, fry bread with meat, fry bread with honey. It was hard to choose who to buy from when they all look exactly the same and they are all eying you to see where you are going to spend your money. We chose the people who had two cute little kids:
