I wrote about the process of making that here. Then I bought and painted a little stool:
You can read about that project here. But the project I've been most excited about is this cute little table I bought at the flea market for $8:
It looked a little sad when I brought it home. I knew it would need a little work. I explained how I transformed it here. And now it looks like this:
The last phase of this project was to clean up this mess so we could move that table in:
Those inexpensive bookshelves were very useful when the girls were younger but now the space has become a catch all. The girls have outgrown most of those books - so we donated them to Goodwill. And we relocated some objects that really didn't belong there in the first place. And we made way for this:
It looks so much neater. We are still trying to figure out what we will do with the old bookshelf. It may end up in their closet. I just hope it doesn't fill up with all of that
