Browsing Category "Office/Craft Room"
How To Re-Upholster A Chair
By     |    Jan 23, 2013
Posted in: Furniture Building, How-To, Office/Craft Room, Re-Purposed     |    6 Comments

How To Re-Upholster A Chair

Tonight we’ve got the third and final installment of the $5 thrift chair refinishing saga.  I know, exciting stuff.  We revealed the chair refinish, then posted about how we fixed the broken spring, and tonight it’s all about how we got the upholstery done.   The supplies we used for upholstering the chair included a yard and a half of outdoor fabric (it’s just as good as upholstery fabric at [...]

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New Threads For The Five Dollar Thrift Store Chair
By     |    Jan 20, 2013
Posted in: Furniture Building, Office/Craft Room, Re-Purposed     |    15 Comments

New Threads For The Five Dollar Thrift Store Chair

Dude…I’m gettin’ on it.  Get your mind out of the gutter.  By “gettin’ on it” I mean getting things done that are LONG overdue.  Like this five dollar thrift store chair that I bought back in November (read more about it back here), started tearing it apart, and then moved on to other projects before finishing the makeover this weekend. Well, the chair is officially made over (we put the [...]

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On Dasher On Dancer On Razor On Vixen
By     |    Jan 15, 2013
Posted in: Art I Heart, Kitchen, Office/Craft Room     |    7 Comments

On Dasher On Dancer On Razor On Vixen

Okay, I’m squeaking out just one last Christmas related post (and only 25 days late…how ironic).  So here’s the story…not of a lovely lady or a man named Brady…but of a deer wall hook who we named Razor.  He looks like a Razor, right?!  A distant cousin of Vixen…just a bit more rough around the edges. He was a Christmas present from Colby’s sister, Margot.  She called Colby shortly before [...]

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Heroes In A Half Shell – Berkus Power
By     |    Nov 7, 2012
Posted in: Art I Heart, Decorating, Office/Craft Room, Shopping Deals & Steals     |    No Comments

Heroes In A Half Shell – Berkus Power

Consider me a bandwagoner.  I hopped on and hopped on big time with the Nate Berkus for Target line.  I have definitely visited the Nate Berkus line for Target on at least five occasions.  Jury is still out whether or not the first visit counted since there was no Nate Berkus gear on display.  I asked the Target girl if they were carrying the line and I got a “Nate [...]

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Fern Immersion
By     |    Sep 6, 2012
Posted in: Decorating, Office/Craft Room, Re-Purposed     |    6 Comments

Fern Immersion

It’s memory test time.  Ready?!  Do you remember how way back when we decided to use ferns as centerpieces for our wedding?  And made birch bark covered pots with our initials carved into the sides of them?  Here’s a refresher: Well, post wedding we had to figure out what to do with all the ferns.  We started with 25 ferns, only 20 of which lived to even make it to [...]

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Craft Room Re-Reorganization
By     |    May 8, 2012
Posted in: Office/Craft Room, Organization, Painting Projects     |    No Comments

Craft Room Re-Reorganization

And we’re back in the craft room for a re-reorganization and a little painting fun.  A few weeks back I setup and organized the craft space but it was nowhere near perfect (read about it back here).  Over the last few weeks, I’ve been tweaking it, re-tweaking it, until I’m finally pseudo, almost okay, can live with it for now.  Two words….super….functional.  Everything has a place, it all fits easily [...]

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We’ve Been Setup
By     |    Apr 12, 2012
Posted in: Office/Craft Room, Organization     |    5 Comments

We’ve Been Setup

I was really hoping to be able to give you all a big hallway floor refinishing reveal tonight, but alas, I have none such reveal.  In the history of floor refinishings, this floor has been the most dastardly.  After a solid week’s worth of work this is about how far I’ve come, after a fresh coat of poly on the “landing strip”: At least it’s progress.  Maybe next week (fingers [...]

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I’ll Take “Things I Should Have Finished A Year Ago” For 200 Alex
By     |    Apr 10, 2012
Posted in: Office/Craft Room, Trim Work     |    1 Comment

I’ll Take “Things I Should Have Finished A Year Ago” For 200 Alex

Me:  I’ll take “Things I Should Have Finished A Year Ago” for 200 Alex.  Alex:  This step was a critical step missed when the then office and now craft room was renovated.  Me:  What is poly the trim?  Alex:  Ding ding ding…we have a winner! I know Alex doesn’t say that but it makes for a better opening paragraph so I’m going with it.  And yes, when we finished…well…kind of [...]

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Raising The Bar
By     |    Apr 1, 2012
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Raising The Bar

The last week or so we’ve had a bunch of epiphany moments.  Like Goose is such a good dog when we run him, dust goes away when you actually dust, and yards are muddy…really muddy in the spring in Maine.  But the most profound epiphany moment was when we asked ourselves, “why should the most gorgeous, finished room in our house be one we never use?!”  You see, ever since [...]

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Pitchers With A Side Of Table
By     |    Jan 10, 2012
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Pitchers With A Side Of Table

So this post is loooooong over due.  So long.  So very very long.  But considering I have little to report in the parlor refinishing project thanks to being out straight stressed/busy at work work and coming down with a weird cold thing, it’s time for some pulling out some oldies.   Thus, I’m catching up on some random shopping steals of yore.  Way back, probably just before Halloween, I hit up [...]

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