Showing posts with label Link Up Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Link Up Party. Show all posts
Monday, December 2, 2013

Blue and White Bash Link Up


Happy Post Thanksgiving and almost post Hanukkah to everyone. I definitely ate way too much, so hit my boot camp class pretty hard this morning. Gotta sweat away all that mac and cheese, ham and turkey.
Anyway, I'm so excited today to be joining this Blue and White Bash link up party hosted by the Pink Pagoda. Blue was never my go to color in design, but this year that changed. Let's just say I caught the blues, in a good way. 
Let's take a peek of some of our favorite rooms with an infusion of blue and white?





There ya go. Just a few of our faves. Which was your blue and white design fave of the year?
Be sure to head on over to the Pink Pagoda to join the Blue and White Bash Play along and show us how you got into the blues this year.


A-Efendy Blue, Link Up Party
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Link Up Paaarty - Working With What You have

In our never ending quest to achieve great decor, even with clients on a very tight budget, we've been doing more and more DIY projects. So today I'm participating in the Emily A. Clark's amazing linkup soiree:
 

Remember this amazing black and gold coffee table revealed here last week here?

 


Well, ideally I wanted to splurge and get a glass table with gold legs for this project. But it was definitely NOT in the budget so this little coffee table rehab is a great example of working with what you have. It used to be a sad, sad, looking table. All dark and brown and clunky looking.



But it was in great shape and just needed a little love and affection. The amazing Shaggy, one of my lead guys on projects, handled this for us. You'll need some basic tools of course.
If you wanna be all fancy then you can use a power sander like this one.

Or if you're afraid that thing will launch you into space, then stay on earth and use the good old fashioned paper sander in a fine or medium grade.

For the gold knobs we used this metallic paint from Valspar via Lowes. Our dear friend Linda at Calling it Home strongly suggests that we all wear some super duper face masks before spray painting. Sadly, I've yet to order one but it's on my list. Pinky swear.

He sanded then rolled on black glossy paint.
 


And just like that a new table was born!  The tray we used here to style the table, also got some gold love action. Can you tell I'm mildly fascinated with gold these days?


 
Let's go forth and see what the other folks on the link up are up to. Happy Hump Day guys.