Saturday, October 24, 2009

I won the Judges Choice for Restore Spaces 2009!

OK, have you missed me? I didn't post much last week because I was hard at work designing for a charity event at the Habitat Restore. The event is called Restore Spaces. If you like the White Room Challenge on Design Star, you'll love this event too. We get three blank particle board walls and the chance to shop the Habitat Restore. We reuse, refinish and repurpose to create our space. I designed a craft/workshop room...my dream room! Here is one of my shopping trips and my cart full of goodies that were looking for a makeover.



Here is a photo of the cart that I turned into an end table and lamp that I repainted. My colors were white, grey and celery green. You can see them refinished in the photo below this one.



These oval frames were gold to start but nothing like a little upgrade with spray paint. I wanted funky artwork so I hung tools for a 3-D effect. I borrowed a Cricut again to cut out the letters (I think I know what I am asking for at Xmas!)
So, Goldilocks didn't like the way these chairs looked so I repainted them and added a small detail. Check the other photos for the after shots.


Here are the chairs with some celery green paint and some new numbers. Goldilocks thinks Chair #1 is just right. The old crib bed spring is perfect to display my before photos. The desk is an old door that I hung with brackets and then added the legs for support and decoration.

The grab bars below are now fabric remnant holders, the chair and sewing machine were painted. I added the # just because.
This was the biggest piece in my room. Here is the workbench before I painted it a smoky grey and white. I added cool new hardware and a ton of fun repurposed storage holders. I will blog about the details in another post.
This is me after celebrating winning the Judge's Choice Award. You can see the above workbench now that is has been made over. I was so psyched to have been picked by the judges and really enjoyed myself that night! All the money goes to helping build houses for the less fortunate in our community. Fun time had by all!

I will be posting some more details this week and some fun and easy projects you can do at home! For more fun DIY projects and inspiration, check out a Soft Place to Land's DIY Day.


Happy Monday and all its makings,

~MB


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