A "New" Armoire for $15

Patience isn't usually my strongest attribute; I will say it paid off in this circumstance!  I had been looking for an armoire for months, but they were always so expensive.  I found this at Goodwill for only $15!

Even the lady working there didn't believe it was only $15... she thought the sticker must have said $75 so she looked it up in the computer system.

Yep!  $15!!!  Now, it didn't start out looking like this.  It was a crazy light peachy colored wood; I just knew it would need to be painted.

I don't have any before pics (they were all lost on the great external hard drive wipe out of 2012).  You'll just have to trust me that it was UG-LY!

I primed it and painted it with a light gray.  Then I glazed it with an espresso-colored glaze and sealed it with Modern Masters dead flat varnish.  That stuff is the best!  It completely knocks down the sheen yet makes the surface durable (and washable).

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I contemplated changing the hardware, but I ended up liking it after living with it for a while.  Maybe one day I'll switch it out

Are you ready to see the inside?  It isn't pretty...

I told you.  But for $15, it will do for now!  AND we just got a new TV so we took the sad little guy out of there.  You can hardly see the gaping hole in the back now.

Here are a couple more pics

you can see the paint coming off a little here from wear and tear over the course of the last year, but I think it gives it more character

See?  I told you that peachy color was bad.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,

Jamie

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Skirted Bar Stool

I have been looking for bar stools for our kitchen for almost 5 years now... I finally found some at Goodwill for $6 a piece!

They were green, but the perfect height.  I took them.

Our kitchen is teeny so I wanted something that would tuck away completely and almost hide when we had them pushed in. Or so I thought. I spray painted the legs gray, did another coat in white, and then sanded them to distress them. But they were just TOO plain.

If I'm having a bad day or I just feel kind of gross I put a skirt or a dress on.  I don't know what it is, there's just something about a skirt that makes me feel a little more special.  I think you see where I'm going with this...  Little wallflower bar stools, I'm about to upgrade you.

And here they are in all their knife-pleated glory (this was my first attempt at knife pleats, so I'm a little excited)

I love them.  I named them Nellie 1 and Nellie 2.  Let's be honest, they look a little like the Nellie Olesons of bar stools

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I've had this fabric for a while... I bought it at IKEA in the "you know there's something majorly wrong with this thing we're trying to sell so we'll make it really cheap" room.  They were $3.99 curtains that had some holes in them, but I loved the color and texture so I bought them.

I made some piping in white canvas.

Then I pinned the top part of the slipcover inside-out on the bar stool and sewed it, using my zipper foot.

I ironed the pleats into the fabric, using a piece of cardstock (it was actually a coupon) as a template.

Then I pinned the piping and skirt onto the main piece and sewed it with the zipper foot.

I thought I had sworn off the zipper foot and any kind of piping or welting after sewing the slipcover for my sectional.  I guess it's been long enough since that project that I forgot how much I struggled with it.  These "slipcovers" were actually a lot easier.

I'm loving my "new" bar stools!  Let me know what you think...
Blessings,
Jamie

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