My front room

I made my pillows and curtain ties to add more color to my front room.

Reupholstered chair

Before and after on my reupholstered chair. It took about a week to do---but that is only because I did it without a sewing machine. I followed Brooke's tutorial on allthingsthrifty.com.

This thing was so nasty when I first got it. I found it on craigslist for $20. It stunk up my house! It was caked in 3 layers of paint that I had to remove with varnish/paint remover.

This part was a pain in the butt! I had to apply many coats of varnish remover before getting down to the real wood. Once I was there, I stained the wood with a walnut wood stain and coated it with poly-acrylic to give it some protection (and a pretty glazed finish).

Bought this one at the Thrift store for $20. I ended up selling it. I will start taking pictures of my before pictures from now on. This side table needed a little help when I bought it...

I got this piece for FREE-it was a dark wood color but with a lot of fading and one big cup spill stain. My biggest problem when doing projects is that I want to keep all of them! Our apartment is getting squishy!

I've done so many projects since I've been in the Philadelphia area, that I wanted to start posting them-mostly for my own enjoyment :)