Thrifty Thursday: Large DIY Pallet Frames

I am STILL plugging away at my boys' two bedrooms!  I am so close!!  This week I made 2 large pallet frames, one for each of them.

I'll show you the one for the Star Wars room first:

I found this awesome canvas print on Amazon for only $12!  It is huge, and I thought a thick pallet frame would look really good with it.

So for this one, I measured my pallet wood, cut it at the 45 angle on my chop saw, and then used these 

L brackets from Home Depot:

 I painted the frame black, then stapled the canvas to the back of the pallet frame:

 I love how this looks, and how big it is...and for only about $15!!

Ok,  here is the next one I did, for my other son's room.  His room is "music" but I've tried mixing that with an industrial vibe.

I found these tin letters at Hobby Lobby, and thought they would go really well in his room.

For this pallet frame I didn't want mitered corners, so I left them straight, and then stained the wood darker.

 Next I attached chicken wire to the back of the frame.  I should have used staples again, but I used nails...not sure why! lol

Then I hung his tin letters onto the chicken wire, spelling out his name.  

This frame is really big too!

 Once it was all hung, I decided to added screws to the frame, where the pieces come together, just to give it some character

 Because I bought the letters on sale, this project cost me only $15 also!  

So for a total of $30, I was able to make 2 large art pieces for my boys' rooms!  

I love that... and my boys were thrilled when they came home to find them hanging in their rooms!!

Therena

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Vintage Inspired Laundry Room

I am so in love with this laundry room!  

This is my sister's laundry room that we worked on while I was there.  

It is a pass-through laundry room, and this is how it looked before:

My sister really likes my laundry room, and wanted her blank wall to have a similar look to mine.  

Here is a picture of mine (full post here):

She was also dying to have a pallet sign like mine.  In fact, I was just going to bring her mine, but I couldn't get it to fit in my suitcase! 

But we started with the beadboard and trim.  We used actual beadboard on hers, not the wallpaper like on mine.

 Then, luckily we were able to get a pallet from a construction crew that was happy to get rid of it.  

So I made her a sign similar to mine:

 Next we added cute coat hooks from Hobby Lobby:

Then we decorated the other side of the room where she has a shelf and upper cabinets.  Before I got there my sister had found the blue sewing machine and iron, so we thought it would be fun to use those, and incorporate a few other vintage looking items! 

 Since I've been home I had started making small changes to MY laundry room to give it more of this look...that's how much I LOVE this laundry room!!!

Therena

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Small Bathroom Makeover

I am finally home from my crazy fun trip to Texas!  I went to help my sister fix up her new house.  They just moved there from New Jersey, and they went from a very small home to a much bigger one!  So they are still working on trying to furnish it, but we did manage to update and beautify certain areas that were needing it!  We were up past midnight most nights, but it was so fun, I loved every minute of it!  We even squeezed in a few days to shop and decorate!  

I wasn't quite sure how to go about blogging all of our projects, but finally decided to just do it by room. 

 So first I'm going to show your the little powder bathroom we fixed up!

This is how it looked when I left:

 My sister wanted a beachy theme for this space...pretty cute, right?!

Before I got there, I had my sister paint the walls in Valspar's Jekyll Grand Dining Sea Mist:

This is how it looked when I first saw it:

So the first thing we did was paint the cabinets white, and distress them:

This alone made such a difference in this bathroom!  

We also painted the existing mirror.  My sister HATED it and wanted to replace it, but because I'm so cheap, I suggested we paint it to see if it would change her opinion of it....and it did!  

We decorated using some antique glass bottles and fun seashells.

While my sister lived in New Jersey, they found this beautiful horseshoe crab that was fully intact.  She wanted to incorporate it somehow, so we got a basic white frame from Michaels, backed it with muslin, and attached the crab with hot glue: 

I also made her this fun pallet sign (my tutorial found here):

I absolutely loved how this bathroom turned out!!

 Therena

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