Hellooooo. Hope your week end is going great. Finally the temps and humidity here in Chicagoland have come down. Yikes this past week we were having temps in the high 90's with lots of humidity.
Finally with the temps coming down we could paint the new pieces I showed you from Habitat Restore.
Here they are:
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| Here is the before picture of my $10 table. |
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| Here is the after picture. Yep! just took some WHITE paint and Terry built a new top out of some planks and a can of spray paint for the hardware. I was going to paint the whole thing white but then I was liking the natural look the wood planks gave to the piece. |
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| Look at her slimmed down pretty legs. |
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| My little finches are happily guarding their new nest on the new coffee table. |
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| Looks pretty in the living room and you can see the other fabulous find re love in this picture too. So here we go on that re love.... |
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| My $40 dollar bottom cabinet. She just needed a spa day and some love. |
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| It is amazing what a Spa Day can do for a girl!!! |
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| White paint and then steel gray spray paint for her hardware. |
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| I kept my love of gardening for my vignette with this piece. |
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| I got this fabulous metal chippy flower holder at Michaels for 40% off. Framed it with one of my vintage frames. |
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| Love this chippy watering can with it's sea washed blue spiket. |
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| I have sun streaming in all day long. Love that about this home. Always bright and sun filled. |
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| This new place really is beginning to feel like the Perfect Nest. With being in here less than 2 months I am so happy for all the pretty changes to make it feel like home. It was hard to move away from the former Junk Chic Cottage but this new Junk Chic Cottage is starting to feel like home. So happy I have that handy dandy man with all his fabulous tools to make my decor dreams come true in our new home. Thank you Terry! Have a wonderful week end. It is low 80's with less humidity and sunshine here. Love Summer! Hugs, Kris PS: A big hug and Thank You to my friend Anita from Castles Crowns and Cottage blog. Anita told me about the White Balance setting on my camera and my pictures are coming out so much better. Not as washed out like in the past. Thank you Anita I am now "chasing the light" !!!! If you do not know Anita or her beautiful blog and Instagram you must hop over to see her beautiful pictures. She does not disappoint. Thanks Sweet Friend for the help. |
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Hi Kris,
ReplyDeleteI love your great Habitat Finds and remakes! Your home is looking lovely and I'm so happy that you are settling in!
hugs,
Sissie
Kris, I love how both those pieces came out. You and Terry know how to re-work things. Your home is beautiful . I like the basic wood top of the coffee table with the new legs. I think you and Terry need your own business redoing old finds. Blessings for a great evening and a beautiful Sunday. xoxo, Susie
ReplyDeleteKris - GORGEOUS!! Love all of your redone finds. The little table looks great with the wood top and more dainty legs. The buffet looks awesome. Amazing what you can do with white paint. It all looks so good.
ReplyDeleteJudy
Bingo, Kris! Love how transformed both. Now, relax, please??!
ReplyDeleteStill hot and humid here, even with showers - just seems to draw the heat out of the ground.
Beautiful, Kris, as is everything you do!
ReplyDeleteBrenda
The 'girls' look lovely after their Spa day!! Good work!
ReplyDeleteWOW! They both turned out wonderful! What a great transformation.
ReplyDeleteTwo GREAT finds, Kris. I love them both and I do love the wood top on the one piece. That bow front bottom cabinet is a wonderful piece, too! Your home really does look like HOME now. Great job. You are right- that is a great setting on your camera and the whites are clearer now. Love it...love that hubby of yours, too (from a distance)...lol xo Diana
ReplyDeleteAmazing finds! Love the makeovers!
ReplyDeleteGreat makeovers and I love the top for the table he made.
ReplyDeleteBoth pieces look amazing....I love them in their new white color!!!! I'm glad you are settling in and it is beginning to feel like home :o)
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Both pieces turned out great, Kris.
ReplyDeleteYour new pieces of furniture are stunning. What a great job of remodeling them. Terry does amazing work.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that your pictures are coming out better now. Thanks to Anita.
Your new home is very lovely and you and Terry have done such a wonderful job of redoing everything.
So glad that your temps and humidity are lower. I was out watering this evening and I was a little chilly. Can you believe that and it felt good.
Well my dear thank you so much for sharing your amazing home, I just love everything.
Have a great Sunday.
Hugs dear friend,
Mary
Fabulous transformations!! Great job!!
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Deb
It is so pretty! You and your hubby are quite the team😀😀👍
ReplyDeleteKRIS!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI was away from the computer all day yesterday (taking more photos!) and I am so blessed to see this! The moment I opened my blog roll and saw your new post title, I knew I'd be ready for a thrill! YOU and Terry (give that man a HIGH FIVE!) are the perfect REPURPOSING team! That little table, what a brilliant idea to take off the lower wooden bars; that dated the piece, but by taking them off, it becomes a much older, more vintage find. Then the paint job and Terry's gorgeous plank top....WOWSERS! And ya can't beat the prices! Then your console....yes indeed, a spa treatment is always the best for animal, vegetable or mineral (or furniture!) teeeeeeee
THANK YOU my friend for the sweet mention at the end! I NOTICED a very lovely change in your photos! Isn't white balance a charm of a find? I was enjoying a photo shoot yesterday where I truly had to adjust my camera of different lighting circumstances. I hope you get to view my next post that will be directing my readers to Vicki Archer's blog; she is doing a series in which she has interviewed a few of her readers, and I am one of them!
Hugs to you dearest heart. Enjoy that well-lit beauty of a cottage! ANita
Dear Kris,
ReplyDeleteagain you did your magic and everything just looks so stunning! I love to reuse and recycle as much as I can, it is the best way to go as you are showing us all. I wish our Habitat for Humanity had some amazing pieces like yours. Wishing you a lovely Sunday.
Hugs, Karen B. ~ Todolwen
Your Habitat reloves turned out gorgegous. The white brings them back to a brand new life to be enjoyed all over again.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job you've done there. Looks Beautiful, both pieces.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great day.
Love Elzie
Wow Kris you really know how to take and make everything so beautiful love it all! Both pieces look amazing!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Kris
ReplyDeleteI can't believe those are the same pieces. They look completely different and so so beautiful. You have such an amazing talent of making every thing so pretty. Your husband is quite talented also and does the most amazing work. Loving your redo's and your living room looks so gorgeous. Enjoy this weekend Kris.
deezie
Kris, I swoon every time you post pictures of your beautiful new home! It is where my mind goes when I envision the perfect place in which to live ... makes me think of being surrounded by clouds!!
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Kris, I swoon every time you post pictures of your beautiful new home! It is where my mind goes when I envision the perfect place in which to live ... makes me think of being surrounded by clouds!!
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Thank you for your visit and sweet comment. You made my day. Have a great new week ahead.
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Kris, you are the queen of furniture makeovers! I still can't believe the great price you got on those pieces. It always amazes me what a little paint and love can do. You have that wonderful ability to envision how great things can be and that certainly is a valuable asset. These pieces are so beautiful! Great job! Oh, and I'm loving the flower holder inside the frame. Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteEverything looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteKris, Love all your furniture finds and how you used your magic to turn them into fresh new pieces. You have done a fantastic job decorating and styling your new home. I can't believe you've only been there 2 months. Great Job!!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Jody ♥
Jaw dropping gorgeous!
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It's amazing what you and hubby did! wow and double wow. What kind of paint do you use?? chalk paint or regular? do you sand and prime also? I can't believe those are the same pieces. You really have an eye for the "after" of the "before and after"!!!! Never would have thought of removing those bottom legs on the little table. What a difference that made. I had to do some pinning on this post!
ReplyDeleteThese two pieces turned out wonderful!
ReplyDeletePerfect Kris! Adding the wood top to the table was pure genius, but not nearly as genius as removing the bars on the bottom. I'm wondering if that was fairly easy to do without messing up the legs?
ReplyDeleteThe correct white balance makes such a difference. I'm not sure if your camera can shoot in raw, but if it can that's definitely the way to go. Then you can change the white balance after the fact if you want, plus it's fun to see what the pics look like with different settings.
Kris, you do not disappoint! Love the new re-loved pieces. They turned out beautifully and fit in perfectly in your sweet nest..Glad your weather is better, our's is also..Happy Weekend..xoJudy
ReplyDeleteKris an absolutely delightful transformation! You and Terry rocked the ReStore finds. I knew you would my décor crazy friend. Send those lower temps our way... Still waiting to work on my dining room door outside but need temps under 85. Kisses to you on this Sunday.
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Vera
They are both showstoppers! And to think that you saw what they could become. I am so glad to read about how happy you are with your new cottage, that it already feels like home. You probably knew when you first visited the house and saw the sunshine coming in that you could be happy there.
ReplyDeleteSaturday was our first day in 4 months to indulge in a bit of thrift store browsing. We didn't get much but made us remember how much fun it could be. And there's one metal stand for $4 I couldn't resist but have no idea what I can use it for. I'll have to try to think like Kris!
When I saw the picture of the coffee table earlier this week, I confess I had serious doubts about its potential, but she turned out to be a beauty! Great job! And the buffet is just gorgeous. I need to find a Habitat store where I live!!
ReplyDeleteI knew that they would both be fabulous and I was right!! You are one talented lady!!
ReplyDeleteWow! What great finds and transformations! Oh the power of paint! I love the natural wood planked top that Terry made for your coffee table! I love the look of natural wood with all white rooms. Just a pop of wood and texture here and there. It's been a great weekend here in Michigan but we will be back in the 90's and high humidity next week uuuggggh!
ReplyDeleteI love to see your new posts and what you're up to with your new home! I got a good chuckle when I saw that we did similar things with our vases from Michaels....I love yours!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing! I love what you've done with both pieces, Kris. Now tell me where you found these thrifty treasures! What did you end up doing with the hutch to the cabinet?
ReplyDeleteLove everything and so happy you are truly settling in!
Jane
I love your new "old" pieces...and especially love that you left the top of the table in natural color...it helps to ground all your white....looks just beautiful
ReplyDeleteMy dear friend you always can make something out of nothing. I love, love, love it all! The little button sure does show up you're white decor. Have a wonderful week! xx Jo
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful, as always! I'm so glad it feels like home. xo, T.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely! Wonderful improvements. Made them into such charming pieces of furniture.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!!! You never cease to amaze me with your creativity, Kris - your living room just looks gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThat table turned out so cute for a coffee table. I like the cabinet you got too. That's a great way to get affordable furniture since you're going to paint it anyway!
ReplyDeleteGreat work! I like how everything looks. You do amaze me, so talented.
ReplyDeleteCarla
Love how both pieces turned out Kris! You and your hubby surely do know how to work magic!!
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Jann
Your two new pieces are beautiful Kris. And the natural colored table top that your husband made blends so perfectly. What a lovely find your metal basket was. I love anything metal and it looks gorgeous set in your vintage frame! Glad your weather has cooled a bit. We are finally getting some rain here and cooler temps too. Have a wonderful week and as always, thank you for the inspiration, friend!
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Tamara
You are definitely putting your stamp on your new home! Everything looks wonderful, Kris!
ReplyDeleteI need a visit to your day spa! ;P Love your transformations, and I do like the little table with the combination natural top and painted white base. Your home is simply beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteI need to send some of my furniture to your spa!!!....and your home is always so spa like...such a beautiful, charming and relaxing home to be in!....Now do you also give massages? :) Great job you two as always!!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Kris, LOVE the table with the natural top. It looks great with the flooring and the round rug. The light streaming through is beautiful. What an uplifting and joyful home. Beautiful side chest too. Your doing a great job of making this your home. Everything is so pretty and inspiring. Have a great week. Please send some cooler temps our way. haha. xo
ReplyDeleteThe natural top with the table is so pretty. The soft color of the wood looks great with the whites in the room. You and Terry are making a beautiful home. Hello to Cooper
ReplyDeleteCindy
I'll have to try the white balance setting. Your pictures look fantastic and I just love your new rehomed finds. You do amazing stuff with paint. I love Terry's new top on the table. So cute.
ReplyDeleteDearest Kris, HELLO!
ReplyDeleteIs the humidity done with? We had it here yesterday and I dared not go outside!
THANK YOU for coming to visit me and Vicki! Wasn't that fun? She did such a great job of laying out the photos and my responses!!!!
OK WOMAN, what's next on your renovation schedule? I want to see more!!!! So inspiring....
Kris, you and Terry are so talented and inspiring. I can't get over the way y'all transform everything and make it gorgeous.
ReplyDeletePhotography is so much fun but very challenging. Janet @ Shabbyfufu just shared the info from Haven on her blog if you want to take a look.
Both pieces turned out just great, Kris! What an amazing transformation of the table. It's good that you saw the potential of that piece. The natural top works very well. Your living room is wonderfully light-flooded indeed.
ReplyDeleteIt's been around 95 here and often humid for the last 8 weeks except for a few days. I so look forward to fall.
Have a wonderful day! :)
xo Julia
Hi Kris! Your Habitat pieces turned out so wonderfully! They go perfectly in your home as well! Great job by you and Terry again! Your new cottage looks so inviting, cheerful and shabby sweet! So happy for you both! Big hugs, Leena
ReplyDeletewow Kris, the difference is amazing!!!! You did that side table a huge favor!!! SUper beautifuL!
ReplyDeleteYour pieces came out wonderful. Love that bottom hutch piece it looks amazing so pretty. You too have a great week, with love Janice
ReplyDeleteWow! Such beautiful transformations! So happy to hear you are settling in so nicely!
ReplyDeleteI knew when I saw your picks from Habitat REstore that they would enjoy a fabulous Kris & Terry spa treatment and you did not disappoint. Gorgeous - both of them and of course styled beautifully as well.
ReplyDeleteI am in awe of the work you and Terry have done to make this house your Junk Chic Cottage!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing with SYC.
Most beautiful Junk I have ever seen! You and husband are so talented. I also see you have good supervision from your beautiful dog too. Beautiful cottage
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