SunflowerHugs: 2015

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Secondhand Scores Transformation | Mounted Deer Heads

My favorite thing is when some of my secondhand score items that I get at completely different times come together to create an awesome project.

That is exactly what happened with these $.50 plastic deer heads.

How weird are these? I have no idea how these were used originally, but for $.50 I couldn't pass them up.

I knew I wanted to mount them so I went through my pile of garage sale wood plaques to find ones that would work with the heads. I see these things at garage sales all the time for like $.05-$.10 each. I like to think of them as a craft that never was.

I found two that fit, although they were not the exact same shape. I stained them with Minwax Dark Walnut.

To reduce the creepy factor, I spray painted the heads white. They had holes in the backs that I was able to put wood dowels in and then stick them in the ground for easy spraying.

The final step was mounting them. Since they had a hole in the back, I put a screw in the wood and put the heads over that. I did need to use glue to keep them straight on the wood. I used E6000.

I used them on my decorative shelves that I put seasonal decor on. I don't have a mantle, so this is the next best thing.

Of course the shelves and everything on them except for the fake candles are secondhand scores.

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Black Waterfall Dresser

This huge waterfall dresser was so dark and dingy.

I chose black for its makeover.

I painted it with two coats in DIY chalk paint and distressed slightly. I then covered it with Martha Stewart metallic glaze in Black Coffee. It is hard to tell in the photo, but it really does give some dimension to the black.

I completely transformed the hardware by simply soaking them in ammonia and buffing them to a shine with a green scrubbing sponge.

They really pop off the black and become the star of the show.

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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Mid Century Modern Mint Dresser

One Monday a while back I found an ad on craigslist about free furniture. It said to get there by Sunday (the day before) or the garbage men would take it. I took the chance to drive by Monday night to see if anything was left.

It looked like everything was left! If you can believe it, I only took the two dressers the arrows are pointing to. The rest were a bunch of desks and broken pieces.

This is the dresser that was upside down and backwards at the top of the photo. A really cool mid century modern dresser.

So far, I have gotten the chance to paint two other mid century pieces and those were also free!

Free MCM Table

Free MCM Dresser

But I painted those white and I wanted to do something different. I chose a mint color oops paint that I have had forever.

I sanded down the three drawers on the right and taped off the wood elements on the drawers to the left. I used two coats of the mint color (mixed into homemade chalk paint), distressed and waxed with Minwax finishing paste. I waxed the drawers on the right with AS dark wax.

I started painting at night so the color didn't feel as bright as it did once I moved it into the sun. It may be a little edgy for my area, but I hope someone likes it.

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Secondhand Scores Transformation | Mounted Deer Heads

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Black Waterfall Dresser

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Mid Century Modern Mint Dresser