Spray Painted Vinyl Zebra Chair

When that super sad day came that it was time for my beloved Jackson Resale Factory to finally close it's doors, they put out a message on their facebook page that said "FREE FOR ALL" - if you walked in the doors, you had to leave with something!!  No money required.  I was all over that and you can read about my adventures with "neighbor grandpa" here.

This chair was one of those things I tossed in the back of my truck that made neighbor grandpa think I had totally lost my marbles.  It was pretty awful looking... but I was sure there was SOME way to make it usable again!  

I came super closed to just tossing it on the burn pile, but then I saw that it came apart pretty easily.  I dismantled it...

I wrote "Hi" on the side to show how the massive amount of dust that the disintegrating fabric created.

It had three different upholstery jobs on it - all of which were sinfully seventies.  The vinyl on the final layer had a large rips in it so my mom helped me out and we covered in batting.  Thankfully, my aunt had just given me a big bag of it because she was cleaning out her house and luckily I get everyone's unwanted jazz. :)

I covered the whole cushion in a fun zebra print using a staple gun.

I covered all of the vinyl with several coats of Rust-oleum plastic primer spray paint which I was lucky enough to find on clearance, and then covered in the lime green glossy Rust-oleum Painter's Touch.  I'm very curious to see how it holds up.  It's been about a month now and so far it's done just swell.   

 One last parting shot of the before and after:

Outdoor Buffet Table {Patio}

Once the snow melts here in Michigan, everything moves out here.  It's just another one of our rooms but without walls!

There always seems to be something that needs a little sprucing up.  This week, the buffet table is what got the "sprucing treatment".

The one and only time I ever convinced (or in his words, harassed) my dad to write a post for me was on the building of the patio buffet table.  If you'd like to see how he built it using lumber from the old deck click HERE.  If it weren't for my dad, this whole patio wouldn't even exist!

It was a rather boring little corner, that I spruced up every once in a while with a table cloth like so:

After just a couple years, the table was really starting to weather.  I had also painted all my shutters yellow on the house but there were no shutters on the back of the house - the part where we spend most of our time!  Why should only the front of our home be cute?  I always buy shutters when I see them cheap at garage sales so I measured the window over the table and wouldn't you know it, I had some dark green ones in the corn crib that were the perfect height.  Fist pump!  (It always pays to be a hoarder). I painted them with Valspar's Honey Pot (Exterior Paint plus primer) and mom and I screwed them in to place.

 Yes, the country life IS IT!

Havin' a little photography fun.

So happy with how much brighter and cheerful the paint job makes the corner!

I painted the top of the table aqua first and knew it would really clash with the red pavers so it was my genius mother who suggested painting the bottom white. 

 What ever would I do without you, mother dear?

 Totally should have waited for the sun to duck behind a cloud before the photo shoot, but darn-it-all there were two microscopic clouds in the big blue sky today and I just wasn't patient enough.  So once again, you'll have to just deal with my less-than-stellar photographs. :)

  

Oh, and let me know anytime when you'd like to drop by for a lemonade......
                                                                      ~Kammy~

Trash 2 Treasure Tuesday {Link Party}

Hey, hey! 

 Time to see what ya'll have been up to this past week!  Any trash to treasure transformations?  If so, this is the place to link 'em up!  

Did you miss anything that happened on Kammy's Korner this week? 

 Click on the thumbnail to see the post and what you missed:

Now let's see some features!!

The Post With The Most (views) From Last Week:

Sunflower Hugs and the woes of using old milk paint.

Shabby Love revealed their kitchen redo and I especially loved the countertop they made with boards!

Pretty shirt that you don't wear anymore?
  How about make a lampshade out of it like One Day at a Time did!!

Remastered Relics' Silver Leaf Armour is stunning!

Please review the rules before you add your link- THANKS!

Trash 2 Treasure Tuesday Rules: 

1.  Your post must be a Trash 2 Treasure, but I'm not picky on the "trash" part!  

If you took something and made it look better and it's NEW to Kammy's Korner - link it up, Baby! :)

2. Place the Party button found on the right sidebar on the post or somewhere on your blog.

3. Visit the link before you and leave a comment!

 I do try to visit each and every one of them eventually!!!  It's hard with three little munchkins who need attention and hate mommy's computer time. :)

Link up, Buttercup!

Bathroom Update - Big Bang For A Buck

This little bathroom change was the easiest and quickest thing ever but makes all the difference in this bathroom!  It has always been lacking that special something.  A gorgeous tub that's been around the world and back (okay blog world), a pretty mirror, cute little Ikea chandy....but something missing. 

 I had this old shelf sitting in the basement and the other day I picked it up and started wandering around my house wondering where to put it.  Enter "A HA" moment.  Yup, exactly where it needs to be - over the clawfoot bathtub!!  Yeah?  Yeah.

 Let's have a peek of what this boring

 little bathroom used to look like.... eeeek!

This "crystal" chandelier is a forty dollar job from Ikea.

My uber tubular talented-with-printables friend Marie surprised me with this awesome little piece of work the other day.  Love it!!  She gave it to me framed and everything!
She's a peach.

Yay for summer - fresh flowers!!
 These dainty pink beauties are coralbells with variegated Hosta leaves.
 I used a stencil to put a little chalkboard paint on a mason jar for my Epsom salts.

Yup, pretty excited how just adding a little shelf did so much for this bathroom!  Woot!  :)

Click HERE for all the FAQs on this bathtub 

and how I "fixed up" the inside and out for just $25.

My Bottle Collection and Orange Light Fixture

I really don't have "collections".  This is about as collect-y as I get.  Vintage bottles!  And maybe some not even vintage, I just like the color or shape or whatever.  I pick them up when they are fifty cents at garage sales, or even find them in the ditch when I'm walking.

And what's up with my crazy old orange light fixture?

It was in one of the junkiest of junk stores I've ever been in.  So much dusty stuff packed into such a tiny space that you could hardly walk through it without knocking something over!  I kid you not, I think if you're hips were any wider than about 36 inches, you wouldn't be able to walk through it.  I found this dusty light and it totally grabbed me.  I had to have it.  A woman with the hugest frizzy beehive hairdo I've ever seen came to my assistance.  She had a couple of colorful teeth poking out and informed me that it was a specially marked tag so it was half off.  I took it home for just $12, if my memory serves me right!!  I think it's good to have a few "surprises" in your house here and there.  I guess you could say this is one of mine. :)

Sorry for the photo quality of these next couple photos.  I'm not a photographer and just cannot seem to get a decent shot with that huge bright sliding door/window!  

About three short years ago, it looked like this (below) for a very small amount of time.  A very small amount of time because soon after this paint job and kitchen makeover, we put an addition on to our house and no longer needed this for an eating area.  Yippee!!!  The beadboard (wainscoting) that is now in the kitchen we salvaged from the laundry room that got torn off.  So glad we kept it all!

I'm so glad I decided to add a little color to all the cobalt blue!  Adds much more interest to that area.  

Pretty blah bananas before.

Spray Paint, Doilies, and Popcorn Tins

 My mother uses these old popcorn tins for her garbage cans all throughout the house.  She has a beautiful home and then there's these "cutesie" popcorn tins?! 

 So last time I was in Iowa, I just couldn't take it anymore.  I dove into each room, gathered them all up, and rummaged through her spray paints and doilies.

  Here's what happened to one of them:

 Zillions of ways to upcycle these tins, I swear.  But hopefully you have some from a few years ago since their size is shrinking significantly each time another Christmas rolls around.  Funny that the price doesn't shrink with the amount of popcorn you get!

My Repurposed Life