Top 10: Weekend Crafty Projects

February 5, 2010 By Liz - It's Great To Be Home 6 Comments

Before the football bonanza begins this weekend, how channeling your inner crafter and trying out some of these fun projects?

1. Make everything more festive with a dotty garland.

Dotty Garland

{Apartment Therapy}

2. Add a touch of sparkle to a bare wall with framed button art.

DIY Button Art

{Living With Lindsay}

3. Use a little twill tape to sass up a ho-hum photo mat.

Quirky & Colorful Vignette

{Little Green Notebook}

4. Get a little wild with zebra print vinyl decals.

Zebra Stairs

{Effortless Style}

5. Leave everybody floored with your custom artwork.

3 Men & a Lady

{Three Men and a Lady}

6. Do touch ups on the go with pre-labeled, portable paints.

Handy Paint Jar

{Pure Style Home}

7. Dye a boring lamp shade the perfect color.

DIY Dyed Lamp Shade

{The Artful Abode}

8. Turn your mini-blinds into a fab, custom roman shade.

DIY Shades

{Little Green Notebook}

9. Make reading even more fun with adorable, printable bookmarks.

Printable Bookmarks

{How About Orange}

10. Put your old wine bottles to good use with hanging wall vases.

Wine Bottle Wall Vases

{Design*Sponge}

Think you’ll give any of these projects a whirl this weekend?  Which one is your fave?

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A Touch of Turquoise

January 12, 2010 By Liz - It's Great To Be Home 25 Comments

I bet you guys thought I forgot, right?

Without further adieu, here are our newly recovered dining room chairs!

Recover Chairs

As you can see, I went with the turquoise peacock and I am in love!  (And I bought the last yardage they had – yikes!!)

I think it’s a pretty good upgrade from the seat cushions that came along with the antique dining set (wink wink):

'Round the Table

Weren’t those lovely?

I have to give a shout out to my new best friend, the PowerShot Pro – it doesn’t have the best reviews, but for under 30 buckeroos I’m not complaining!  It certainly made the job of stapling in the new fabric about ten thousand times faster than doing it by hand.

A Touch of Turquoise

I’m really loving the combo of turquoise, chocolate brown and olive-y green.  I’m hoping to bring out a bit more of the turquoise through accessories like lamps and maybe some DIY artwork.  I’m excited to see how it (eventually) turns out!  (P.S.  Aren’t those candlesticks awesome?!?)

A Touch of Turquoise

And I’m not the only one that’s loving the new chairs – here’s my fat kitty, Riley, giving the fabric a little snuggle before I recovered the chairs.

A Touch of Turquoise

What do you guys think?  Did I pick the right fabric?  Got any suggestions for drawing in some new turquoise accents?

This post is shared with A Soft Place to Land, Reinvented, A Silly Little Sparrow, Today’s Creative Blog, Between Naps on the Porch, Cottage Instincts, Making the World Cuter, It’s So Very Cheri, Twice Remembered, The Girl Creative, Sumo’s Sweet Stuff, The Persimmon Perch, and The DIY Show Off.

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Fabric Showdown

December 4, 2009 By Liz - It's Great To Be Home 13 Comments

Now that our fab new rug is in its new home, I’m atwitter with the excitement of choosing a new fabric to recover the antique dining room chairs.  But picking fabric is both a blessing and a curse – there are so many amazing options out there, so how is a girl to choose?!?

It’s been tough, but I’ve narrowed the field to 6 finalists, and I think I may have even decided on a winner.  My criteria is pretty simple – the fabric has to introduce a new color into the mix (not just olive and chocolate), it has to be patterned (spills are a doozie in the dining room), and it has to be fun.

Here’s a rundown of the finalists:

Fabric Showdown

1. Turquoise Peacock.  What’s not to love about a peacock print?  The turquoise is a fresh and welcome addition to the existing color palette, but I’m a little worried about introducing yet another animal-inspired print into the room.

2. Fuschia Ikat.  Love ikat, love fuschia.  Love that it adds in a bit of turquoise, too.  But is fuschia in a dining room too much?

3. Confetti Squiggles.  I’m smitten with the fact that this fabric introduces a plethora of colors to play with, but I think the pattern is a little too distracting when paired with the rug.

4. Confetti Damask.  I think this pattern is gorgeous, and I’m particularly drawn to the traditional design with an updated color palette.  But unfortunately, I’ve learned that money doesn’t grow on trees (darn!) and this fabric is wayyy out of my price range.

5. Olive Trellis.  The trellis pattern has been a fave of mine for awhile, but for some reason it falls flat for me in this dining room, probably because it doesn’t introduce that all-important third color.

6. Eggplant Ikat.  This one is the winner for me – it’s fun and funky, but maybe not as wild as the fuschia ikat.  And while I typically don’t like colors in the purple family, I’m really digging the deep eggplant of this fabric.

So now that you’ve checked out the fabrics for yourself, what do you think?  Is there a clear winner for you, or do you think I’ve gone off the deep end and need to keep looking?

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