So this happened this weekend. First aid cabinet go boom! Ever since we posted these little pics of the bathroom, after we first painted it a minty green, I knew that I wanted to fill that empty space above the toilet paper holder with a first aid cabinet. So the other day, when I went down to the Brewer School House Antique Mall, I super scored on the purchase of [...]
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6 Comments 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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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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4 Comments So some of you super-observant readers out there may have noticed in yesterday’s post, but there has been a little rearranging going on in the living room and parlor at Casa Campbell. More specifically, a little chair re-arranging. Before, there was this pink chair in the living room: And then this matching pink chair in the parlor: But then I brought home this guy (you may recognize him from my [...]
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Now I have the Counting Crows song “I’ve Been Hanging Around” stuck in my head. Sweet (she says sarcastically). At least it’s a good song that reminds me of my high school days. On second thought, maybe that’s not such a good thing. Anyway, we’ve got a new kitchen closet organizer hanging around these days thanks to some quick and easy closet tweaking. What’s it been…like four days since organizing [...]
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2 Comments Now that I’ve let your eyes rest for a few days from the neon-ness of my good ol’ nightstand (read more about it back here) that’s been with me since high school, you’re ready for the big reveal. Now you can REALLY appreciate the nightstand’s new “outfit”. Ta-da: Shiver me timbers…thar she blows! And it’s hard to believe that she looked like this not too long ago. I can’t say [...]
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We ended last week by ripping bark off clay pots, bark that I had painstakingly hot glued to the pots and carved the pots with Colby’s and my own initials for our wedding reception centerpieces. But I managed to salvage one piece of bark and had planned to frame it and add it to the gallery wall in the parlor. Well, I just so happened to be cruising the home [...]
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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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10 Comments Lately, I’ve been up to my eyeballs sorting through wedding stuff. Packing up stuff, putting it all away, bring order back into our lives, and most importantly trying to re-purpose leftover wedding paraphernalia. Everything from house plants to table runner fabrics and even these table numbers. What in the world am I to do with 20 table numbers? My first instinct was just to chuck ‘em, but that just ain’t [...]
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4 Comments This weekend has been nuts…certifiably nuts. It was our last free weekend before the wedding week festivities kick off and we had ALOT to get done. Most every major task has already been taken care of (minus the final DJ meeting but that’s scheduled for Monday after work) so now it’s down to the little details and touches that make our wedding more us. Honestly, I didn’t accomplish nearly enough [...]
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Welcome to Angie's Roost (and Colby's Hen House) where you'll find daily posts about our misadventures in DIY home improvement. We bought a 100+ year old home that desperately needed some love and blogged about our entire adventure.
Yellow painted iron bed
Ikea dresser hack with blue burlap panels
Toilet decor
