{Video} Part 1: Chalk Painting an Old Chair

Chalk Painting an Old Chair via SewWoodsy.com created for Homes.com

  Last year, while on a random trip to my local Goodwill store I found a chair. This said chair (see above picture) was a whopping $6.99. I couldn't pass it up. Ever since my friend Sarah at While They Snooze did a Side Chair Makeover for her sewing room. I knew I could do this easy project. Well, when we started brainstorming with our friends over at Homes.com about content creation for our new video series my chair came to mind. It was a project I had wanted to tackle for a while now. … [Read more...]

DIY Chalkboard Painted Dresser

Before-After DIY Chalkboard Painted Dresser

Last year, I was contacted by DecoArt Paint during the same week Martha Stewart Living contacted us to work on the Deck the Halls project. When it rains it pours, right? That is the saying. We had been asked to contribute a project to the 2013 catalog. The first thing that came to mind was the dresser that had been sitting in our garage for over two years. You see... Mr. Woodsy dad found it on the side of the road for us, put it in his truck, and hauled it to our house. We weren't sure if we … [Read more...]

{Part 2} More Dresser Prep

The other day I showed how we sanded and prepped our dressers. Now, let's fast forward 2 months-- the dressers were still sitting in the garage--sanded. Acting as a nice resting place for all the crap in our garage. At this point--I just want to be able to put our clothes in dressers. See we had clothes in our nightstands and ever since we switched out our nightstands we have had to resort to storing our clothes either stuffed in our closet or piled sky high on our only 6 drawer … [Read more...]

To Tuft or Not To Tuft… that is the question!

Tufting a Bench 31

Mr. Woodsy and I started our first project for our Master Bedroom Revamp Project yesterday. My Great Aunt Millie (who is 89 years young) gave us a beautiful bench before moving into an assisted living home. We had been looking for a bench for the foot of our bed for a while and had loved the shape of the bench and the character of the legs, but what we did not love was the choice of fabric. We new the fabric could be changed. Fast forward one year later and we are just now working on recovering … [Read more...]