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    DIY Spindle Carrots

    6:42 PM - By 

    Mak­ing Spring decor using these skin­ny spin­dles from the shop just may be my new obses­sion! Not only was thi project easy, but also, the end result turned out absolute­ly amazing!  What you will need: Spin­dles Miter Saw Green flo­ral stems hot clue orange paint small paint brush twine and/or raffia The process start­ed out fair­ly sim­ple. I had two long spin­dles that I cut down to about 6″ each using a miter saw. If you need to get your hands on these I offer them over in my wood sup­ply shoppe. GET THEM HERE.  After they were cut to size, I light­ly sand­ed…

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    Thrifty Spring Decor for Your Mantle

    7:18 PM - By 

    Recent­ly, I made a trip to one of my favorite thrift shoppes in town on a mis­sion to gath­er a few bud­get-friend­ly items for my Spring man­tle. I did­n’t want to go all out Easter‑y with bright eggs and bun­nies but did want a taste­ful yet fresh look to my space. After brows­ing the store for about 30 min­utes, which must have been a new record for me, I had a col­lec­tion of vin­tage prints, old bas­kets, books and some faux euclyp­tus stems. I also bought a old chip­py bird­cage and a sofa table, but that’s a whole dif­fer­ent thing.…

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    DIY Outdoor Spindle Projects

    6:58 PM - By 

    With Spring on the hori­zon, my mind is start­ing to drift to fresh­en­ing up my out­door spaces. Since mov­ing to our new home­stead we have put all of our atten­tion and ener­gy into clean­ing up the out­door spaces but I am ready to start think­ing of all things pret­ty. I have nev­er real­ly giv­en much thought to out­door upcy­cling projects until this year and let e just tell ya…you’re gonna be see­ing a lot of spin­dles out in my yard and on my porch!  While gath­er­ing inspi­ra­tion of my own I decid­ed to cre­ate this con­ve­nient lit­tle col­lec­tion for you to…

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    Easy Vintage Stamped Lamp Shade

    2:28 AM - By 

    This DIY has got to be one of the eas­i­est cre­ations I have made in a while. It took me all of 5 min­utes, maybe less to com­plete this DIY. It all start­ed with a plain lamp shade, stamps and a love for all things vin­tage. If you have these three things handy then you too can reacre­ate this look. What you’ll need: This post con­tains affil­i­ate links. Ink Pad Stamps Lamp Shade Mod Podge is optional  Sim­ply take your stamp, press it into the ink and stamp away! That is it! If you are want­i­ng this vin­tage-type look, I advise you…

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    DIY Chippy Paint Layers Using General Finishes Milk Paint

    2:42 AM - By 

    Recent­ly we just wrapped up a big DIY project where we cre­at­ed an island using an old thrift­ed dress­er. From the very start I knew I want­ed an authen­tic, chip­py, aged fin­ish. If you talk to all the “decor styling experts” they may tell you that the farm­house trends are on thi­er way out. and to that I say…so what! The trend may be set­tling a bit in exchange for shades of black and green but this girls coun­try lov­ing heart will always have a place for old and chippy.  I did­n’t want to fake this look. It as impor­tant…

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    DIY Projects - Kitchen

    How to Repurpose a Dresser into A Kitchen Island

    12:19 AM - By 

    This dream of hav­ing a kitchen island start­ed with a dress­er we found at a local resale shop. It was a bit taller than your stan­dard dress­er and made the per­fect height for an island, and thus, the dress­er to island con­ver­sion project was born. If you’re look­ing to start a upcyled project that will look amaz­ing in your home, this would be an amaz­ing place to start. It’t the per­fect blend of rus­tic and beau­ti­ful. Don’t take my word for it, see for yourself. Where to Start If you’re look­i­ung for the per­fect piece of fur­ni­ture to flip upcy­cled into a…

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    DIY Rustic Island Counter Top

    8:52 PM - By 

    Sooo, as most of you may already know we have been steadi­ly work­ing on con­vert­ing an old dress­er into a kitchen island. My num­ber one goal out of this entire con­ver­sion process has been work­ing toward cap­tur­ing an old, just pulled out of a barn feel. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you but that is lit­er­al­ly the phrase I have been using to describe my vision. Rusty hard­ware (that I also DIY’d HERE) , chip­py paint…you name it. This has pre­sent­ed itself to be quite the chal­lenge but I was eager to get this part of…

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    How to Layer Stain Like a Pro

    8:09 PM - By 

    Learn how to give new wood a beau­ti­ful nat­u­ral­ly aged look with the stain lay­er­ing tech­nique An easy DIY method for using stain to achieve an old look. The goal here was to make this wood look aged and pre­vi­ous­ly loved. In this case, a since shade of stain was­n’t gonna cut it. I decid­ed on using a tech­nique I am unof­fi­cial­ly nam­ing stain lay­er­ing. To be truth I don’t know if this is techini­cal­ly a tech­nique but it’s what I came up with and I must say I hap­py with the results. These are the shades I used:  Min­wax Weath­ered Oak 270…

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    Spring Gnome Inspiration from Etsy

    12:35 PM - By 

    Browse a col­lec­tion of adorable SPRING GNOMES from Etsy. I did­n’t real­ize how dif­fi­cult it is to find actu­al DIY tuto­ri­als for these cute lit­tle cre­ations until I went on the hunt. Click­ing on these images and links will redi­rect you to an Etsy shop. Even still, I hope this col­lec­tion leaves you inspired and excit­ed to take a shot at recre­at­ing some of these for your self! How­ev­er, you are look­ing for tuto­ri­als I have a sep­a­rate Christ­mas Col­lec­tion for that. LOOKING FOR DIY TUTORIALS? CLICK HERE KEEP SCROLLING FOR SPRING INSPIRATION -DON’T FORGET ME- PIN FOR LATER

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    DIY Rusted Hardware

    2:44 AM - By 

    I have been work­ing on our island con­ver­sion for a few weeks now and I am final­ly gett­ting to the final touch­es on every­thing I want­ed the piece to look authen­ti­cal­ly old, that was my main goal. I bought new apothe­cary hard­ware from Ama­zon and absolute­ly LOVED the design. What I did­n’t love was how new they looked. They did­n’t match the age of the rest of the piece and I kin­da thought I was doomed. That was until I ran across this prod­uct shared by The Vin­tage Porch. It’s a Rust fin­ish met­al effects kit by Mod­ern Mas­ters. It…