• Decor

    Thrift Store Flip: Mini Screen Door

    Here at Roost and Restore I love to show peo­ple how they can dec­o­rate their homes resource­ful­ly. A lot of the times that means tak­ing some­thing from a thrift store and giv­ing it a fresh makeover so it will fit your own per­son­al style. This thrift store flip is no exception! You just might be sur­prised how far a lit­tle paint and cre­ativ­i­ty can go when dec­o­rat­ing your home. It’s all about using the resources you have to dec­o­rate. It’s that simple. Last week, I came across this cute lit­tle mini screen door at my local thrift store for only…

  • Decor - Roost+Restore Home

    How to Freshen Up Christmas Garland

    OK so we have all been faced with this dilem­ma at one time top anoth­er and we are left won­der­ing, how to fresh­en up Christ­mas gar­land. Well hon­ey that is why I’m here! I have found the sim­plest and sweet­est way to give that old tired gar­land a new and fes­tive look that will make your guests look twice! I have to admit, before I reveal this lit­tle secret, that it was not my orig­i­nal idea. In fax­et, I saw this lit­tle trick at my friends barn mar­ket at Feath­er­Stone farm last Christ­mas and it stuck with me! I knew I…

  • Decor - DIY Projects

    Soap Pump Makeover

    We recent­ly opened up our new home decor shoppe and I knew after open­ing week­end that I would need a cute way to pro­vide hand san­i­tiz­er at the check­out. That is when I thought of this soap pump makeover! I found the cutest glass soap pump for $1 with a hob­nail pat­tern that I could­n’t resist. A quick clean­ing and a lit­tle paint and this makeover was fin­ished and ready for the check­out counter. I cov­ered the glass por­tion of the pump with 2 thin coats of chalky white paint and applied rub n buff in antique gold to the…

  • Decor

    Christmas Tree Makeover using SnoFlock

    This week I had the plea­sure of team­ing up with Seasons Reflec­tions for a fun Christ­mas Tree Makeover using their advanced Snow Flock­ing pow­der! Not only is it super sim­ple to use but it can trans­form any Christ­mas tree in minutes! So I found this super cute tree at a local thrift store for only $15! Yes.…FIFTEEN DOLLARS! At that price tag, it was super easy to bring it back to the shoppe! But of course it need­ed a lit­tle bit of love and knew SnoFlock by Sea­sons Reflec­tions is what I would use. This was not my first time…

  • Christmas - Decor - DIY Projects

    DIY Christmas Centerpiece from Thrifted Lamp Shade

    Every year it seems like I am left scratch­ing my head try­ing to fig­ure out the per­fect Christ­mas cen­ter­piece for my din­ing table, cof­fee tables, sofa table…any table real­ly. But I believe I may have found some­thing unique, sim­ple and beau­ti­ful with this DIY Christ­mas centerpiece. It all start­ed with an old lampshade…yes you read that cor­rect­ly, A lamp shade.  It was old. Stained. Bor­ing. But I changed all that just by sim­ply strip­ping it down with a box cut­ting knife and styling it with a few beau­ti­ful items from Roost and Restore Home. This is what the shade looked like after…

  • Decor - DIY Projects

    Thrift Store DIY Coffee Table Tray

    If you know me at all, then you know by now, just how much I love sup­port­ing my local thrift stores! Inn fact, I have a whole col­lec­tion of thrift store DIY decor ideas right here on the blog. When I found this old sign I knew imme­di­ate­ly that I could turn it into some­thing mag­i­cal for a cof­fee table or din­ing table. A DIY cof­fee table tray for $5 is hard to beat! Am I right? WATCH THE DIY COFFEE TABLE TRAY TRANSFORMATION ON FACEBOOK With a lit­tle sand­ing and a cou­ple lay­ers of paint. this old wall plaque took on…

  • Decor - DIY Projects

    European Farmhouse Christmas DIY

    When I picked up this lit­tle $3 ceram­ic Christ­mas horse at a local thrift store last week, I knew right away I want­ed to try to recre­ate a beau­ti­ful Euro­pean Farm­house Christ­mas inspired piece! This dat­ed horse had great tex­ture and the details were per­fect for what I had in mind for trans­form­ing this lit­tle gem. With a price tag of only $3 I knew I need­ed to bring it back to the shoppe for a lit­tle makeover. My secret weapon...Rub N’ Buff! This stuff is so pig­ment­ed and mag­i­cal when it comes to trans­form­ing some­thing basic like this lit­tle…

  • Decor - Decor + Styling - DIY Projects

    Textured Wood Block Christmas Tree Using Sand Paint

    I recently have been loving this DIY sand paint recipe! Not only does it provided superior coverage but it also leaves behind a nice texture on most any surface.  Here is what you need! 3 scoops Plas­ter of Paris 2 scoops or small craft tube of paint 1 scoop of Sand wood block Christ­mas tree craft kit All you real­ly have to do is com­bine the 3 ingre­di­ents and mix well. It should be the con­sis­ten­cy of run­ny tooth­paste. If it seems to thick, add a tiny amount of water (or more paint) until desired con­sis­ten­cy is reached. Also, when I say scoop it could…

  • Decor - Decor + Styling - DIY Projects

    DIY Christmas Decor Using an Old Canvas

    This week I kicked off with some Christ­mas craft­ing. Every Mon­day I go LIVE on Face­book to share a fun makeover idea and this week DIY Christ­mas decor is just what I need­ed to get the week started! I grabbed a can­vas for $1.99 at the local Good­will, removed the dat­ed can­vas image to reveal a cute, chunky wood­en frame. You can see what this frame looked like before on the Face­book replay. After remov­ing the can­vas I sim­ply stained the frame, attached some super cute pol­ka dot rib­bon, embell­ished with some sim­ple green picks from Wal­mart and thid DIY…

  • Decor - Decor + Styling - DIY Projects

    How to Style a Dough Bowl with Faux Wildflowers

    Dough bowl decor is super trendy right now! If you have one at home and you’ve been struggling with how to style it, this is for you! Recent­ly, I was asked to cre­ate an arrange­ment for a friend so I reached for an (emp­ty dough bowl can­dle) cleaned up the left­over wax, and start­ed to work on this faux wild­flower arrangement.  I grabbed a piece of flo­ral foam, cut it in half length­wise, and hot glued it to the bot­tom of the dough bowl. Then I cov­ered the flo­ral foam with Span­ish moss, using hot glue. I had all of these…