I am a Victorian Soul, who lives in a small townhouse that was built in the mid 1970's, not a huge Mega Mansion!! I just recently lost my Hubby Joe, who was a Retired Letter Carrier. I worked night shift as an RN on a Hospital based Rehabilitation( Physical Medicine) Unit for 37 years before I had Knee Replacement Surgery and officially Retired in 2019 after 41 years working in Direct Patient Care ... I am so glad that we retired at 62 years of age and got to spend that time together before he passed....I still do love Retirement!!!!

I DABBLE IN A BIT OF THIS AND THAT!!!!

" IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN"
George Eliot
George Eliot was actually a pen name for a woman named Mary Anne Evans......

BLOGGING FOR FUN AND FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

End Table Transformation!

First off, I want to thank Kathy over @A Delightsome Life for once again featuring one of my posts for her Home and Garden Party!!

Click Here to see my post on Shopping, Sunsets and a lot of Stuff in Between!!!

Kathy, I am so very flattered!! Thanks so much for hosting this wonderful party!

THANK YOU!!

Please visit and join in on Kathy's wonderful Home and Garden Party every Thursday!

AND

My Post featuring one of my Patriotic Wreaths was the most viewed over at Grits and Giggles at last week's I Made This Party!!

Click HERE to read the post!

Thanks so much , Jenilyn, for featuring me and for hosting this great party!! I am so honored!!

Well, the projects keep coming!!!!

We are on a roll!

Here is one of 2 end tables that Joe bought at a church Flea Market for $6.00 a piece!
They have been in my Den for about 2 + years now and I have finally found time to refinish them like I always wanted.

This is the marble like insert that fits in the top of the table. It weighs a ton!

Here is Joe with his new sander working on the tables. Remember he burned the old one up when he was sanding down the China Cupboard?
Well, he got a new sander for Father's Day...........

I guess that means I have more projects lined up for him!!!

LOL!!

Here is the table after it was sanded and I put several coats of the same Antique White paint on it.
I also stained the top with a Maple Gel Stain that I already had....


I then sanded it down in places that would create the distressed look.....


I applied mahogany gel stain and then wiped it off with Furniture Wax.

And here is what it looks like now!

I am keeping the insert and I left the handles on the drawer the same since they match other pieces of furniture in the Den.



Here is the contrast between the table that is not refinished yet and the one that is....

What a difference, huh?

See the difference in the tops with the maple stain on the refinished one?


I then decided to move the finished table into this corner where the one to be finished was....

It brightens up the corner and this is where it will stay....


Here is the second table....


And it is now resting in it's spot......


The cost to refinish the 2 tables...

NOTHING!!

ZILCH!!

I used paint and stain that I already had so I did not need to buy a single thing!

The tables now match the China Cupboard that we also refinished.....

Remember I was staining wood appliques to put on the China Cupboard?

Well, here they are.......

These help tie the piece in with the newly refinished end tables since the appliques are stained with the same Maple Gel stain as the table tops........


I didn't like just the one piece on the side so I added another one.....


I also wanted to bring more of the Antique White color into the Den so I also did this Medallion.....

And the frame for my calendar which looked like this....

And now looks like this....

I have definitely been bitten by the furniture refinishing Bug! I have been looking around the house to see what other pieces that I want to change next!!

LOL!

The Den is just about finished now so my next post at the end of the week will be the BIG REVEAL of the complete Den Make Over.

I hope you will come back to see the Reveal.....

Also, over at my Christmas Blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas, I have started a series of posts featuring the books "The Spirit of Christmas "which were published from 1987 to 2003.
They are chock full of decorating ideas,, gift giving ideas and recipes.

Please click HERE to read the first post in the Series.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today and every day that you take the time to visit with me!

Hugs,
Debbie

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

FAUX BRICK on CONCRETE PATIO FLOOR

This is not real brick....


Let me start at the beginning...

This is our back patio......

We used to have the Indoor/Outdoor carpeting out here but when we brought home our sweet Savanna who was afraid to get wet, she would do her business right outside the door on the carpet if it was raining.

So we had to get rid of the carpet....

Now I always hated how the bare concrete looked because when we first bought this house 34 years ago, we weren't sure how big of a patio block we wanted.....


As years went by and I finally decided that I wanted a bigger block , my Dad poured more concrete. Hence all the seams that do not look so good...

Since it has been 2 years now that we are without a pet, I did not want to go back to a carpet as it takes quite a long time to dry after it rains. Several years ago, I saw in a magazine where someone stenciled concrete to look like brick.

So I decided that this is what I would try but put my own spin on it....

I bought Valspar Satin Latex Porch and Floor paint in a brick Red color from Lowe's for $25 a gallon.

And a pack of 2 sponges from the Dollar Tree. I cut one sponge in half.......

I applied the paint to the sponges with a brush and then pressed them down onto the concrete creating a pattern to go by more or less. I then painted with a brush over the "brick" that the sponge made and defined it more and darkened it.

I let the natural concrete serve as the "grout" between the "bricks".....

and this is the pattern that I came up with.....

I didn't think this looked too bad!!!

And this is the first part finished.....

Are you shocked????

I certainly was!!!!

I never dreamed it would come out looking this good......

Joe and I can not get over how it looks......

See the contrast...

Waiting until the next day to finish this section.....

The following day.....

This is really not a position to be in for several hours. My back and knees are still killing me!! But it was so worth it!!

It dried within an hour so I really did not paint myself into a corner! LOL!

Finally finished!!

Now the whole patio block is done!


What a transformation if I do say so myself!


You can't even see where all the sections of concrete were added on....



I just can't get over the difference!


From the back of the yard looking toward the house...

While doing this project, I received a pleasant surprise!

I remembered that my Dad and I wrote all 4 of my family's names ( Debbie, Joe, Jimmy and Joey) in the concrete on one of the blocks.

But I did not know that my Dad had placed a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter in the concrete while it was drying in the the far corner of the patio in a symbolic jesture that we would always have money and never have to want for it!!

It brought tears to my eyes remembering all the work my Dad did here for me in this home.
But as I do all these projects, I know he is looking down at me with that tear in his eye that he always had when he was proud of something I did and saying " That a girl!"

I am a Carpenter's Daughter and my Dad never discouraged me from doing things that were usually reserved for Boys!!

I am forever grateful to him for that and I have missed him every day for the last 25 years......

He would be thrilled with how the patio now looks....

The plants in my pots are doing well...




I cut a piece of left over lattice and stuck it in the flower box as a little fence....


And this will be my new header picture instead of the one that I have now with the bare concrete!!

More transformations are coming in my next post which will be posted early next week.

I refinished 2 end tables in my Den along with a few other things.....

I am linking up to these parties:

Special New Year's Eve Addition of Mop It Up Monday

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