From Drab to Fab!!

This past weekend, I was in the mood to redecorate. I really do feel sorry for my sweet husband. He puts up with my decorating obsession. Usually when he hears that I have an idea, he thinks money signs. But I can be thrifty! And this time I was! I'm always moving things around or finding some creative way to display something or another. I really think I have a sickness! I'm never satisfied! So, I was feeling sorry for my poor little kitchen. We don't have a hutch and I really think she deserves a hutch (before you start feeling too sorry for myself, I do have to add that I have a china cabinet in my dining room). I made my own version of a hutch with things that I already owned. I wonder what area of my house I can redecorate next?!

Kitchen before (from the fall, no I don't still have pumpkins sitting around)


Kitchen after (my shabby chic white display - the picture doesn't do it justice)


Also pictured in the above picture is a chandelier that Derek and I updated. Are you sick of the standard lighting that you have? Have no fear! With just a little paint, some sparkle and a handy husband you can turn something drab into something fab!

Before picture of our kitchen chandelier (ours only has 3 lights):


To update this light fixture, Derek took the light down from the ceiling. I threw away the glass globes. I sprayed the existing light fixture with a cream colored spray paint. Then, we rotated the arms upward. Just hang the light back up, add a few crystals (these I bought at Canton), add a few shades. And Ta da! You have a brand new chandelier! I know my ideas are not exquisite but they can turn something boring into something great if you don't have the money to buy that designer furniture piece or light fixture. I think this cost me about $20 total.

This is a terrible picture, but you get the idea.

Happy Decorating!!