Fabulous Vintage Beverage Cart Makeover

August 17, 2015August 13, 201541 Comments

Good Monday morning to you all! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! We had a great time at the beach. The weather was wonderful and we could sit out on the beach and just relax. The only thing missing was Lauren :(. Unfortunately she had to work and we had made the reservations long ago. We will definitely plan better next time!

I bought this vintage beverage cart a few weeks ago at a yard sale. I paid $10 for it which I thought was a great price. Each shelf even comes off to use as a tray.

But it was going to need some sprucing up! I decided to keep the gold on the bars, but would paint the trays to match the rest of my patio furniture.

First I taped off all the parts I didn’t want gold, like the wheels and the bar across the middle of the top tray.

The gold paint I had on hand is ancient, but I decided to give it a try, rather than buy more. It still worked just fine!

Next I painted the trays (sorry no pics! I was too anxious to get it done!). I used Rustoleum Spray Paint in Lagoon. I also had it on hand from Haley’s bench project.

Here is the finished product! I love how this turned out!

A little bit retro, a little bit modern, in my favorite colors and practical too!

Haley picked out some of her favorite snacks to add to the tray.

I think they are Ezzy’s favorite too!

Some cute napkins to keep summer and sunshine around a little longer…

A little tea…

and one last look!

So glad I was able to rescue this piece and give it a new life here at Home on the Corner!

Recycled Pallet Table

August 10, 2015August 9, 201533 Comments

Today we are back with our regularly scheduled program! Back to the DIY and recycled projects! Today is a pretty simple one…and it’s made from pallet wood! We have a whole pile of it and finally came up with a project.

It started out with the base of the desk my daughter took apart for her bench project.

Desk before

We still had the metal base left over. I wanted to use it for something, so I finally decided to try a table, even though it’s a little tall. I tried a piece of chalkboard first, thinking I would paint it black and then could write different things on it for get-togethers. But I didn’t really care for it, so I laid a couple of pallet boards across just to see how it would look. The vote was unanimous! We all went for the pallet wood!

My husband added a couple pieces of wood underneath, just to give some support, and that was about it. All the pieces were screwed together and I have a ‘new’ table! I love it!

Ezzy is making sure it all looks perfect and maybe enjoy a tiny bite of the peach cheesecake!

Thanks for all you wonderful comments about our nomination for the Liebster Award! It’s been fun getting to know some other new bloggers out there! Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Living Room Corner and Down the Hallway

July 16, 201520 Comments

My time off this summer is going by way too fast! I feel like I still have too much to get done! Remember the scrapbooking I was going to work on. Not happening! But I did manage to work on a couple of places in my house.

Back in February, I participated in a Finish-It-Up Challenge. One of the projects I worked on was to paint the trim in my hallway. I painted all the trim, plus 6 doors! Whew! That was a big job! I had hoped to get the walls done soon after, but it just didn’t happen. I finally found some light grey paint on the clearance spot at Walmart. I figured I would make it work. It still took a couple more months before I got the painting done, but it is finished!

I also got a new rug! I had been thinking about a sisal rug, but then decided I wanted more color since it is pretty dark in the hallway. My mom and I went shopping and found this one. I knew right away this was the one I wanted! Thanks Mom!

There was a part of the wall that was peeling off. Well, it was scraped and sanded and then sprayed with texture. Then I was finally able to paint over it. It is not anywhere near perfect, but it sure is better!!

I really like how this space looks!

While I was busy painting the hallway, I was chatting with Haley and asked what she thought of taking the dresser we just took out of her room and using it as a tv stand. She said, definately, yes! So in the middle of painting, I took a break and we moved furniture!

Here is the piece we took out! Haley started moving stuff before I could even stop painting and get the camara out! Yeah, this was from back in the day of very big tv’s!

After getting everything disconnected and moved out of the way, we took the old piece out. Boy, was it heavy! We could barely get it out the door! We managed to just get it out of the way and I said, good enough! Leave it there! It was much easier to move the dresser in!

We got this piece from our neighbors (thanks P & G) quite a few years ago. It has lived in both of the girls’ bedrooms and been painted several times too. We had just moved it out of Haley’s room about a month ago, but I really like it in here! We put movies and Wii games in the drawers. I added a bit of my beach decor too!

My last piece is this wonderful metal doggy I bought from Hobby Lobby! I have to have my little dog touches in each room!

I hope you enjoyed this little update and tour! Next week we will venture a little bit further down the hallway to my bedroom. I think it’s finally done (for now!)!

A New Dresser…Finally!

July 13, 201520 Comments

So…do you remember a few weeks ago that I posted about a dresser that I was going to be posting soon? Yeah…life got in the way and it didn’t exactly happen soon.

But I finally got it finished!

If you haven’t read the before post, please click here.

Before and After

I love the new look on this dresser. Before it was a weird eggshell whitish yellow, a drawer was broken, and there was peeling paint all over. Now, it looks like it could fit anywhere in someone’s house.

But it wasn’t all easy.

The first problem I ran into was the broken drawer. With the help of my dad, we were able to get that fixed. He also helped me fix the bottoms of the drawers so they wouldn’t fall apart.

When I was painting the dresser, I also ran into the problem that the paint didn’t cover the peeling paint on the top of the dresser. When I was using the spray paint, it was two different tones because the wood would just soak up the paint. So, I had to use a can of black paint instead of spray paint. Thankfully, that worked and made the top of the dresser look nice.

My final problem came when I tried to put the new knobs on. The space between the screws was wider than the original knobs, so I had to remeasure to make new holes. After filling in the original holes and drilling in new holes, I was finally able to put the new knobs on. Yeah!

The Drawers

The featured part of this dresser is the drawers. They are all chalkboard, so you can write what you have in each drawer (examples: socks, pants, checkbook, undisclosed amounts of money…too much?), or write numbers like I did. Numbers are really in right now, so that is why I picked them.

Another feature this that every pull for the drawers is different. I bought all five of them at Junk Days and they all worked perfectly. It’s a great way to make the drawers unique.

I love how this dresser turned out. It has a very modern feel and is something that I can see myself putting in my house when I have my own one day. Now, if only I can figure out what to do with it in the meantime.:)

A Transformed Living Space

July 9, 201520 Comments

Hello everyone. I hope everyone is having a great week so far. Just remember, tomorrow is Friday, also known as Friyay!

But, onto the blog.

Since I live with three other girls and our apartment came furnished, I never really did anything with the living room. But after a year of living there, I realized how boring it was.

Before

Another Before

There was just a big empty space in the middle of the living room. Now, it was nice when we were setting up the Christmas Tree because then we could put all of our decorations in the middle of the floor to see what we had. But, other than that, it was just a big empty space in the middle of the floor.

Our entry way was crowded by the large Papasan chair and the shoe rack next to the stairs. If we had a lot of things that we were bringing in the door, we would have to be careful to not bang into one of these things.

Entertainment Center

This is the extent of the entertainment center in our living room. We have all our DVDs and some minions to keep the TV company. My roommates asked if the TV could stay where it was when I moved the living room around. I happily obliged.

This was the extent of our decorations in the living room besides the minions. And it still isn’t very decoratvie or creative. We couldn’t always see what games we had because they were facing the wrong way. There is even one hidden in the back on the floor.

So, after moving all the furniture by myself, getting some decorations and some input from my roommates, I was finally able to transform the living room.

TADA!

It looks much better! It looks a lot more homey and somewhere that I would like to relax in. None of the furniture is in the same place, so it took quite a bit of lifting. Now, it isn’t complete, but this is what I have so far. The couch and the loveseat switched places, the Papasan chair moved across the room, and the table in the corner became the centerpiece. It looks great!

I finally added some decor to the living room! I bought two of the blue chevron boxes from Hobby Lobby for $2 a piece and have them on the two tables in the living room, the bird and the candle came from Kirklands for a good price, and we already had the pots with who knows what in them and the basket. I’m trying to find mini disco balls to put in the basket. Any ideas where to look?

My mom printed out this page from another blog, put it on the clipboard, and gave it to me for my birthday. I thought it looked nice on the table.

The side table isn’t that exciting except that that we have two lamps, one of which is sitting on phone books because I couldn’t find anything else, and a decopauged candlestick. WWWWHHHHOOOOHHHHOOOO…

But, I did find a better way to organize the games. Since Mall Madness was the biggest, I put it on the bottom and went from biggest box to smallest. Taboo didn’t fit, so I placed it on the side as a book end. It worked out perfectly.

Now that the living room has been moved around, the entry way is much emptier and easier to walk through. Trust me, it is much easier to walk though this section with groceries than it was to walk through when the Papasan chair was there. The shoe rack is better placed by the door and the minions don’t feel as crowded with the shoes next to them.

Style en Vogue

Now this picture is going to go up over the couch once I get a frame. But I thought that you might enjoy looking at it. The living room looks so much better and much more welcoming now that the furniture has been moved around. I hope that you enjoyed my new and improved living room. Hopefully, my roommates like it as much as you do! 🙂