Last week i signed myself up for Rachel's new e-course Style Your Space. It's a great course on how to really make a house a home. And you'll especially love it if you dig the challenge of decorating on a budget.
So now I've been inspired to get my butt into gear and get this house of ours finished off! First on my list is our open plan living/dining/kitchen room. It's huge with soaring ceilings which i love...but everything else is either brown or cream. Brown kitchen. Brown leather lounges. Dark wood furniture. Cream walls. Good bones but that's about it...time to inject a bit of colour and personality!
First up was my kitchen dresser. I took off the doors because you could never see what was in it with the doors shut...which isn't so great when you want to display stuff. I originally thought i would paint over the dark wood because I'm a bit sick off all the wood furniture in our house...but in the end i couldn't bring myself to do it! Instead I just filled it up with colourful stuff...
I also put some fabric along the back part. I just stuck it down with thumb tacks. It's a bit rough but it will be easy to swap it to a different pattern if i feel like a change.
And just about everything else is stuff i've found while scouring the op shops. Except for my much loved Kate Mason original of course! I'd also like to change the round handles on the little drawers to a mix of handpainted ceramic ones. I've seen them in a shop in town so plan to start collecting a few.
I love collecting kitchen things by colour and anything in mustard yellow, teal or green will usually end up in my basket.I'm thinking of painting a feature wall in the room a similar yellow to the little spice jars. When we built the house the wall was painted an olive green colour. I never liked it and have no idea why i picked it because it just wasn't "me". Anyway I have lived with it for three years so I think I'm now entitled to paint over it. Only thing is the wall goes up 54 courses...which means repainting is no easy feat! Nor is changing a downlight or dusting cobwebs for that matter...but we didn't really think of that at the time! So now I'll have to wait until Lennie can organise some scaffolding...and then get up there and paint it himself 'cos I go up two rungs of a ladder and no further. All that to say i may be waiting a little while for my sunny yellow wall...
So now I've been inspired to get my butt into gear and get this house of ours finished off! First on my list is our open plan living/dining/kitchen room. It's huge with soaring ceilings which i love...but everything else is either brown or cream. Brown kitchen. Brown leather lounges. Dark wood furniture. Cream walls. Good bones but that's about it...time to inject a bit of colour and personality!
First up was my kitchen dresser. I took off the doors because you could never see what was in it with the doors shut...which isn't so great when you want to display stuff. I originally thought i would paint over the dark wood because I'm a bit sick off all the wood furniture in our house...but in the end i couldn't bring myself to do it! Instead I just filled it up with colourful stuff...
I also put some fabric along the back part. I just stuck it down with thumb tacks. It's a bit rough but it will be easy to swap it to a different pattern if i feel like a change.
And just about everything else is stuff i've found while scouring the op shops. Except for my much loved Kate Mason original of course! I'd also like to change the round handles on the little drawers to a mix of handpainted ceramic ones. I've seen them in a shop in town so plan to start collecting a few.
I love collecting kitchen things by colour and anything in mustard yellow, teal or green will usually end up in my basket.I'm thinking of painting a feature wall in the room a similar yellow to the little spice jars. When we built the house the wall was painted an olive green colour. I never liked it and have no idea why i picked it because it just wasn't "me". Anyway I have lived with it for three years so I think I'm now entitled to paint over it. Only thing is the wall goes up 54 courses...which means repainting is no easy feat! Nor is changing a downlight or dusting cobwebs for that matter...but we didn't really think of that at the time! So now I'll have to wait until Lennie can organise some scaffolding...and then get up there and paint it himself 'cos I go up two rungs of a ladder and no further. All that to say i may be waiting a little while for my sunny yellow wall...
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I love it! Can't wait to see more x
Your dresser makeover looks seriously gorgeous Jodie...I almost fell off my chair reading your post though...would you believe....I have had the very same plans for my kitchen dresser....and only today cut the fabric to line the back of it....it felt freaky reading you post...lol
Having said that....yours looks awesome...and I dont think mine will look even close to that good!
Janelle showed me that e-course link the other day....its very tempting...and it sounds as though you are loving it.
Looking forward to watching your home makeover evolve....its such a lot of fun.
Mardi x
ooh...i signed up too...have only had time to skim a bit but it looks fabulous....i just can't wait to have our own home again to start putting some design into practice...we only have about 6 months or so left here so there will just be collecting for now...but in a more thoughtful way than I ever have before :) love how your dresser has come up. Tatum xx
wow! I am impressed!! so much decorating in your home recently!! it looks so cosy!! and I love your use of the fabric in the back!! great job!!
what a beautiful piece of furniture it is now. great job!
Gee I wish I could do things like that too scared,what if i hate it ...i know one day i will bite the bullet and go.-dee
love what you've done. so pretty! love rachel's blog...was so inspired by her behind the scenes posts that i began replanning my home..haha. so inspiring.
Hi Jodie! I can't seem to locate your email address, and I wanted to talk with you about a guest designer opportunity. Please contact me at gribijunkie@gmail.com. I know, the email addy sounds silly, but it's legit, I promise! Thanks! -- Jill
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