Y’all I could­n’t believe my eyes when I came across this adorable old tool box at a yard sale for only $10. In fact, I almost over­looked it because of the bright shade of blue it had been paint­ed. My eyes are not typ­i­cal­ly drawn to bright col­ors but then I saw it for what it was. A beau­ti­ful old tool­box with excel­lent bones and a sto­ry to tell. Sooo nat­u­ral­ly, I picked it up and brought it home. This lit­tle dia­mond in the rough need­ed some LOVE. And that is where the jour­ney of the old tool­box restora­tion began! It all…

If you are new to Roost and Restore, wel­come! Around here we are all about dec­o­rat­ing our homes resource­ful­ly! In con­junc­tion with the DIY dec­o­rat­ing ideas I share with yall, I have have cre­at­ed a rus­tic home decor bou­tique called The Home­Goods Mar­ket where we sell unique home decor pieces, vin­tage and pret­ty much any­thing that encom­pass­es whole­some old fash­ioned living!  That’s where this tuto­r­i­al comes in. Here on the blog today I am going to be shar­ing the sim­ple step by step process of repour­ing a dough bowl that can be pur­chased in our bou­tique! We now offer the…

This is one of those fun DIY’s you are gonna wish you had known about soon­er. This DIY grain sack tea tow­el real­ly is 2 projects in one, but they are both so super sim­ple you just might want to trans­form all of your kitchen towels. Supplies to Make a Grain Sack Tea Towel Plain flour sack tea towel rolling pin Fab­ric Medium thick rub­ber bands paint of choice cloth­ing iron parch­ment paper instant cof­fee The main ingre­di­ent for this grain sack tow­el DIY is the rolling pin. Real­ly all parts are impor­tant but you will be glad you had the rolling pin handy.  Begin by…

I have this per­son­al phi­los­o­phy. I refuse to make Dol­lar Tree DIYs that I would not per­son­al­ly use in my home. This Dol­lar Tree DIY Vin­tage Card Cat­a­log checks that box for sure! It is hands-down one of the cutest dol­lar store makeovers I have done to date! In my opin­ion anyways. You will be blown away at how easy this Dol­lar Tree DIY was and if you are a vin­tage lover like myself, this will scratch your itch. It all start­ed with these cute lit­tle wood box­es I found in the craft sec­tion. They had some gener­ic shapes cut…