I can't hold this in any longer, hardware or no hardware, I'm showing it to you! 

This is Craigslist find! I bought this green and white beauty for $10!
And after some glossy black spray paint we have a black beauty!

Before
After
Now, I'm still on the hunt for hardware to be able to open these drawers :P But, I really wanted to show this to you! You will see more pictures soon of this pretty french provincial dresser with some new hardware! :)
As I was falling asleep last night my brain was going crazy picturing our bedroom. I've got so many things I want to see! Pale, vintage yellows and a teal kind of blue and a sage green. This goes with our black and white bedding..I want to find some fabric to cover a few old pillows and make decorative pillows for on our bed. Our glossy black vintage dresser still needs hardware. We still need curtains too so this could take a while since we need to stay on budget. Thrift stores are my favorite! You can find treasure's for cheap cheap cheap! 


#1 Find!
Fabric! I was looking for these kind of colors...and I got them for $2! It's cool at a thrift store like that.. they just package up old scraps of fabric and sell them anywhere from .69-$3.99 and if you are lucky you find some with the daily color tag on it for 50% off!






I'm going to be using these 3 fabrics for covering a few pillows that we already have. Bout time! These pillows have been sitting around doing nothing but taking up space for 3 years!


#2 Find! 
On my wanted list...I had a small, skinny lamp listed. I found one today! 




$2 and it's even white and not some strange color! 
(Of course, we could always spray paint it hah!)


#3 Find!
While paying for my handful of goods I glanced around to see if there was anything good looking from the cash register..and lo and behold! (haha) I spotted a small end table with two drawers that looked like it might do the trick for beside our bed!
As you may have seen, this is our nightstand as of right now....



Stylish isn't it? 


I walked over there, tested the drawers...they worked good..then I thought, yeah this is going to be like $15-$20 and I knew I didn't want to spend more than $8 for it..
Well, it must have been my lucky day cause it was $6.99 and my heart got happy and I grabbed that baby up and waddled to the register with my other new treasure :)




Now, she ain't much to look at right here...but I saw potential in her. (Just like her roommate to be!) 


I like the design of her...the bamboo looking pieces that are on the drawers just give her something extra..Now, to be honest, I would've liked to find a bedside table with legs instead of a rectangle bottom piece, but I'm still on the look out so that we can both have night stands ;)
Today, I had some extra spray paint from painting the roommate piece that I keep talking about..so I took the hardware off, cleaned her up and started the process of spray painting. While she was drying I thought I'd take the handles inside and see if we could shine them up to look better (like we did with the kitchen hardware) Sure enough! It worked perfectly! A little vinegar and a soap pad works wonders! (Learn more on how to clean kitchen hardware here)




Now I know you want to see what the night stand looks like now! 




Sooo happy with the way it turned out! $7 for a nightstand for our bedroom! Booyah!


Now it's your turn!
Show us your before & afters on our facebook page


Before
Before
After
We want to see any redo's you guys have done to old pieces of furniture or other making new of things in your house! Go to our facebook page and post your pics!


---L---































Gosh, so many ideas are floating through my head of what I want to see happen in our kitchen. I love how it is coming along though. The journey of priming, painting, cleaning hardware and so on has been wow. But oh my goodness, so worth it! It is starting to look awesome in there! Let me show you some pictures to show you what I'm thinking :)


Here is our progress on the kitchen so far...I'm really in
love with the white cabinets, the dark gray/white walls,
and the eco-friendly bamboo shade on the door. I think
the black ceramic canisters really make a great statement
on the counter too.

I really like the idea of floating white shelfs in the kitchen.
We have that one completely blank dark gray wall that
needs something. But more than a picture or quote...
it needs something functional, yet simple...


Above the sink. There is a dark gray part of the wall
that is blank. Since there is no light or anything
above it I want to put some type of decor up there.
It will draw the eyes up into the room to make it look bigger
and give the kitchen a good feel.
I want to put 2 or 3 of these small square frames centered
over the window. I want to use natural themes in them.
I'm thinking of even putting twigs in one and maybe a
sand dollar in one and who knows in the other ;)
This is the other side of the kitchen. I still need to get another
small brown basket for the shelf on the right that we put
together for under $10 :) This works out great for a little extra
storage btw..I love our plant on top of the refrigerator with the
knife set..we are trying to follow the guidelines with plants.
You need 1 plant per 100 sq. ft in your house to keep the air clean!
We found the best ones that our good for indoors and grab up
the air pollutants such as carbon monoxide. You can find the link on
our facebook page if you wanna read up :)
---L---




We want to take you on a tour of apartment! 
This has been our home for the past 2 years :)

The Official Tour

We lived on the ground level. 2BR/2BA apartment.


A view of our patio as you are walking to the door.
We are this way... :)


Welcome to our apartment! 
(Thats now empty!)

Living Area with patio door shown straight ahead. The
door is there on the right where you see the little bit
of tile :)
Living Area

Dining area. We painted this accent wall right when we
moved in two years ago.
Tip: Remember when living in an apartment you will have
to prime the wall before moving. Took us 3 coats to
get this wall white without it bleeding through.
Think if you are really gonna wanna take the time to paint
and then prime it before leaving! :) 
Hallway

First door on right is the guest bathroom

The guest bathroom led into the
guest bedroom

Guest Room

Guest Room
Back to the hallway...into the end room
which was our bedroom!
We had a pretty huge bedroom. Super nice!

Walk-in Closet ;)

Going to miss the storage in this closet!

From our walk-in closet you went into
the master bath

Where Joe is cleaning the sink at the moment :P
BTW..this is after priming! We had a color in here
called Eucalyptus or something :)
Now back down the hall into the living area
Off the dining area is the kitchen :)


Through the sliding door in the kitchen
is the pantry/laundry room.

Also a utility style room :P

Looking from inside the laundry room out into the
kitchen and dining area
And that's it!

Now, let us tell you...
Today was our last official day of having our apartment. So we had to go over there and finish getting all of the little stuff that is such a pain to pack and you take tons of trips to the truck and back and you feel like it's a never ending cycle...
Plus, we had to prime an entire bathroom & the red accent wall in our dining area.
Made for a loooong day...
But, where did we put all of our stuff we brought over? Oh boy. This is fun...

It's all sitting in our dining room...
So, we need to find everything a home. And soon. 'Cause Laura can't stand seeing this big huge mess in her once finished and clean dining room!  ;)

There ya have it. The story of our day and our apartment where we lived for two years...
We hope you had fun seeing the last place we called home :)

---J & L---




p.s. loving these on amazon.com!    
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