Bar Stools Get A Step Up

I have a friend who always calls me after their annual yard sale. She gives me items that I pass on to my ministries and to whomever may need the items that they have left over. This year as I was going through the items she gave to me,  I came across these wonderful bar stools. I couldn't believe that no one bought them and they were leftover from the sale. There was nothing wrong with them that a little TLC couldn't fix.

After a little upholstery paint, (yes they make upholstery paint), they look as good as new. I found the paint at an outlet store for .99 cents. I then polished up the chrome with some steel wool and "good as new"!

• Paint (onhand)                        $.99
• bar stools                        (donated)

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• TOTAL OF TODAY’S PROJECT    $.99

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Vintage Lamp Takes a Trip from Drab to Worldly

I love going to the Thrift Store. There is nothing else that gets my more excited. Finding that one "peculiur piece that needed a makeover. Then as I was working around the house and realized I had some vintage pieces of my fiance's who needed me just as much.

Today, I came across this light. Never paid much attention to it until I was replacing the cabinet that it was sitting on with a upcycled piece I got from the thrift store. I soon realized as I was staging my new cabinet that this light had been overlooked.

The lampshade was one of the old shades that had the fabric glued onto the plastic shade. So I decided to use the existing shade and take the outer fabric piece off.

I decided that I wanted a different look for it, something that would be a focal point and began rummaging through my finds. I came across an atlas that I had gotten at the neighborhood thriftstore for .25. I knew right then that was the answer. 

After carefully cutting pictures from the atlas I neatly glued them onto the lamp shade. I couldn't be happier about the outcome.

• Vintage Light (onhand)           $.00
• Atlas from thrift store             $.25                

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• TOTAL OF TODAY’S PROJECT    $.25 

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