Need some opinions from those who like to decorate!

[Kiwibird]

Thanks Birdbrain91 for the advice I love decorating too, so I ramble on about it as well We don't really have the finances to replace our furniture, plus none of it's in bad condition, so I like refurbishing it to much my current tastes instead. Even if I repaint it green again, the mirror needs to be painted. The frame cracked when we moved, so while I repaired it, the repair is visible because I couldn't match the paint 100% and I just put off redoing the whole thing until it was warm/dry enough to paint outdoors. But I am thinking I will do it in the brown. I found a nice shade of warm white called "buttermilk" for the stands and a nice shade of very pale blue called "enamelware" for the inside of the desk and sewing stand. I am going to redo my table and chair in a dark brown, along with a plant stand and the blue lamp. I don't know if you can tell, but in the cluttered corner of death (with the chair and lamp) theres a small fountain I might put on that little table, and I might put the macaw in the windowsill Then I'm rearranging stuff too and moving the tv+stand in the bedroom and bringing the custom built vivarium I've almost completed with our pet newt out to the living room. I don't know if I should do anything to the spice rack. I bought it in a junk shop because I thought it was cute, but realized when I washed the jars it is some sort of collectable lenox set. But, the frame is in "dinged up" shape, so I've been debated on that for a while. Hmmmm..... lots of stuff to do and think about!

This is the spice rack BTW (pulled an image offline to be lazy)-

I think it would look a million times better white, but I don't know if it would affect it's "collect ability" value, or if I even care or not, as I don't plan on selling it.

 

[RavensGryf]

That's a cute spice rack. It's different!

 

[Birdbrain91]

I agree with you refurbishing is the way to go. Those colors sound nice.

I just got a wall cabinet at Habitat for Humanity for $10 and I'm going to paint it and my laundry room with some left over paint.

 

[Kiwibird]

I agree with you refurbishing is the way to go. Those colors sound nice.

I just got a wall cabinet at Habitat for Humanity for $10 and I'm going to paint it and my laundry room with some left over paint.

If you're big into projects too, you should post some before/after photos I always love seeing what others are doing!

 

[Kalidasa]

Love the way your mind works lol! here's my 2 cents, and I don't know if someone mentioned it because I didn't read all the responses. You have a beautiful deck with lots of green, which is the neutral color in nature. I would just suggest adding some color on the deck...cushions, flowers, whatever. Some red, orange, yellow or whatever warm or hot color to really make it pop. Maybe some solar lighting fixtures set in red glass....I love decks.

 

[Terry57]

That spice rack is amazing! Love it You have some really neat things

 

[Kiwibird]

O man, I wonder what I've got myself into:09:! I have spent *ALL* day sanding and painting, and I'm just scratching the surface of what all needs to be done. So far, I've repainted the chair and little table, made a new seat cover for the chair, replaced the hardware on my sewing stand and kitchen stand, painted the mirror, a magazine rack, a towel holder, plant stand and all the hardware off a trunk. I wish they sold spray paint by the gallon! O yea, I decided if I'm redoing everything else, the large trunk we have in the living room must also be done, so I spent a solid hour removing 70 (mostly stripped) screws to get all the hardware off. Then, after visualizing how nice the sewing stand and desk will look, I ordered fabric to make a coordinating slipcover for the office chair and am debating constructing some cute doors for the desk to hide the clutter Also couldn't leave well enough alone with the wood kitchen stand, so I have taken off the butcher block top, stripped it, will stain it a nicer color and paint the rest of the stand the same color as the granite counter (a warm white). AND I'm just now finishing up the final touches on my custom newt tank I started several months ago, which looks amazing, but got ridiculously intricate.

I have been putting some of this stuff off, so it needs to be done, and it'll be worth it once it's all finished, but I wish I could just wave a wand and have everything be finished Once I start this stuff, I just can't stop:52:

 

[Kiwibird]

This is the trunk cannot stay all dinged up if I'm refinishing everything else-

I only realized after I had about half the hardware off, I had not taken my "before" photo

This was the green chair and little blue table, which don't even look like the same pieces of furniture!-

 

[RavensGryf]

Nice! I like the chair and little table black instead of the blue it was

All that work... Sounds exciting though, and I can't wait to see it all finished! Oh, and Mr. Newt's custom tank cover too!

 

[Kiwibird]

The newt's tank has been a "learning" experience in working with various materials I never have before. It is insanely cool though (or at least I think it is), complete with a LED volcano, daylight/moonlight and the cover is amazing (but was VERY time consuming). I will be posting pics of that in the next week or so I need to clean it out and get all the new decorations in. Mr. Newt is almost as spoiled as Mr. Kiwi

This was kind of the inspiration I went with, though not as professionally carved (the tree roots and stuff)-

 

[RavensGryf]

Mr. Newt is almost as spoiled as Mr. Kiwi

Cute lol..

I love that "tree" it's beautiful. What is it? Looks like a planter and terrariums in it.

 

[Kiwibird]

I don't know what materials they used in the photo. That is a "professionally made" terrarium at a zoo or something. I used clay to get a similar look. It looks like trees are holding up the tiki roof But I want to be totally finished before I post pics.

 

[RavensGryf]

The LED volcano, plus daylight/moonlight... Wow. Now THAT I can't wait to see! He will be the most spoiled newt ever!

 

[GW.Joe]

Re: Need some opinions from those who like to!

O man, I wonder what I've got myself into:09:! I have spent *ALL* day sanding and painting, and I'm just scratching the surface of what all needs to be done. So far, I've repainted the chair and little table, made a new seat cover for the chair, replaced the hardware on my sewing stand and kitchen stand, painted the mirror, a magazine rack, a towel holder, plant stand and all the hardware off a trunk. I wish they sold spray paint by the gallon! O yea, I decided if I'm redoing everything else, the large trunk we have in the living room must also be done, so I spent a solid hour removing 70 (mostly stripped) screws to get all the hardware off. Then, after visualizing how nice the sewing stand and desk will look, I ordered fabric to make a coordinating slipcover for the office chair and am debating constructing some cute doors for the desk to hide the clutter Also couldn't leave well enough alone with the wood kitchen stand, so I have taken off the butcher block top, stripped it, will stain it a nicer color and paint the rest of the stand the same color as the granite counter (a warm white). AND I'm just now finishing up the final touches on my custom newt tank I started several months ago, which looks amazing, but got ridiculously intricate.

I have been putting some of this stuff off, so it needs to be done, and it'll be worth it once it's all finished, but I wish I could just wave a wand and have everything be finished Once I start this stuff, I just can't stop:52:

Super Hero Fixer: "Next Stop Joe's House" LOL

 

[Kiwibird]

Re: Need some opinions from those who like to!

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Super Hero Fixer: "Next Stop Joe's House" LOL

So you're saying I can just drop all this off and you'll finish it?

 

[GW.Joe]

Re: Need some opinions from those who like to!

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Super Hero Fixer: "Next Stop Joe's House" LOL

So you're saying I can just drop all this off and you'll finish it?

LOL, guess I put (my parrots) foot in my mouth

It would be one Heck of a road trip from OR to PA !!

Joe

 

[Kiwibird]

Sooooo.... I am thinking of painting a monogram on the trunk to "complete" the look. The trunk is a very very pale aqua blue with black hardware. I would be hand-painting the monogram in black, but needed to design some sort of guide to work off of. I designed 2, which I for the life of me couldn't upload up here, so I took photo of the screen (which I realize aren't the best)-

Option 1:

Option 2:

 

[Kiwibird]

Re: Need some opinions from those who like to!

LOL, guess I put (my parrots) foot in my mouth

Just saying, but you'd probably be better with your own foot than a parrot foot lol. You never know what they've been stomping those muck accumulating scaly toes through (poop):21:

 

[Kiwibird]

So, I WAS going to wait and do a whole post that shows all the stuff I've done (which is a lot, and I still will), but the trunk just came out too awesome to wait I painted it a pale blue and spray-painted all the nasty old hardware with rustoleum, so it's a metallic black now. I removed and replaced 120 rusty screws (I miscounted at first, because there were ones missing and the internal higes and replaced all of them with new stainless ones)! I also hand-painted the monogram, which is why it isn't *perfect* (but good enough). After all of that, the hideous, beat up brown trunk now looks like this-

 

[RavensGryf]

That came out really nice!! I always love to see what you're going to do next