My latest DIY, trash-to-treasure project. In an act of cleaning out my Aunt Donna generously donated her old dining room table and chairs. At first I thought I’d use them in the kitchen but then I decided to create a bench to use when you come in from the garage. We needed a place to put our shoes on and off- especially during those cold winter months. So here it is! Before:
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Thanks again Aunt Donna and Uncle George!
Today Kristi and I decided to step up our “gardening game” for our vegetables this year. Given our horrific failure on lettuce from last year we cut that from the line up and went heavy on the zucchini (to make Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread of course). All in all our total line up was:
6 zucchini
2 cucumber
4 italian roasting peppers
4 jalapeno peppers
2 bell peppers
2 large cheery tomatoes
4 beefsteak tomatoes
2 eggplant
4 sunflowers
4 strawberries plants
And an entire grocery store’s worth of mint that Kristi bought for our “Bourbon in the Burbs” party from last weekend.
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The neighboring town near our house hosts a biannual rummage sale. People travel from far and wide for this event which has dozens of tents filled with everything from baby clothes to homegoods to antiques to jewelry. I love it and it really gets my bargain loving, DIY juices flowing. I got a few good deals on things but this baby Adirondack chair for Andrew might just be my favorite! Only $6!
The life of a home owner is never 100% restful. Now that is it above freezing temps its time to make the house look good. Lets see how far 6 yards of mulch takes us. I’m guessing we will need to order more.
When Andy goes out of town for work there a few things you can count on; 1) I visit Home Goods and/or Target at least twice and 2) I paint (or decide to paint) something. This time I decided to spice up the guest bed with a hand-me-down bed frame from my parents.
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May need to raise the pictures a bit but I’ll wait till the big guy or ‘he who uses a level’ to come home.
Bring on the spring, flowers and warmer weather….I’ll even take the weeds! Poor Andy has to take on our (what I’m come to appreciate is massive) driveway. At least he has his John Deere to keep him company.
PS- you’ll notice this pic was taken from inside our warm, dry house. Someone has to stay with the baby after all.
From Andy’s old college trunk to our coffee table. Just add a few furniture legs and voila!
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Needless to say a 4,000+ square foot house left us with a lot of house and few things to fill it with when we first arrived. Over the last few months I’ve been transforming hand-me-down pieces from our family into our very own. It may not be HGTV or Pinterest worthy but I’m quite proud of my handy work if I do say so myself.
Project 1: Kristi’s Desk
Courtesy of Diane’s basement and her desire and love of cleaning out!
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Project 2: Dining Room Chairs
From Bill and Connie’s kitchen in the mid-90’s to our dining room
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Project 3: Changing Table
Tried and true by the Phillips babies
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Project 4: Lamp for Baby Andrew’s room
Thank you grandma!
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Project 5: Sprucing up Candlesticks
Goodbye brass, hello navy (quickly becoming my new favorite color)
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Project 6: The Wingback Chairs!
The biggest project yet. Still getting up the guts to tackle these monsters. May need to call in some reinforcements to help.
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Whoever doubts that ‘nesting’ is not real has clearly never spent time with a pregnant lady. Lots of paint, more paint, hanging and assembling and Andrew’s room is starting to take shape.
PS- Andy did the hard work. I managed.
