A Quick Table Fix Up, Curtain Dying and Dollar Store Rings


Here is a look at some of the things I fixed up and brought over to my brothers house.  If you haven’t seen the before and after home tour pictures, be sure and do it!


(After Photo!) 





I spotted this little guy at the thrift store for 10.00.  The top was very scratched up (it wasn’t solid wood) but other than that it seemed like a great find.  I bet you could set books in that area underneath – wouldn’t that be fun!

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The steps were very simple:
1.) Sand down top (I didn’t get it to the bare wood but I did roughen it up quite a bit)
2.) Spray (or hand paint) with a grey primer
3.) Spray (or hand paint) with a few layers of the color of your choice!

This is my sand job – I guess we’ll see if it holds up, I’m sure it will.  For 10 bucks I didn’t want to spend forever sanding and being that it was laminate it also made it harder to sand down.  Just be sure and clean up ALL the dust with a damp rag before you begin your painting.

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Here he is! 

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Not bad for a total of 10 bucks!!!  I think my brother really liked it.

Next up, my funny (kind of) curtain dying project! 

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I found these curtains for 3.00 but they were yellow and I wanted them brown so my first thought was maybe I could “tea dye” them.  I soaked them in a tub of tea for days!  I used empty bottles to push the curtains down so they would be fully covered by the tea water bath. 

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There was only one container (the BLEACH container) that actually held bleach not water.  (You might be able to tell where this is heading!)  When I realized that the tea just wasn’t doing anything I began to pour out all the “water” containers and realized, as I was pouring, it was bleach!  Panic stricken I ran to the bathtub and tried to rise off any bleach that might have been on it.  Miraculously, it didn’t seem to do too much damage!


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Next up – I bought good old brown RIT dye.  I only have a front loader washing machine and I thought I had to do it in a top loader washing machine so I got up enough nerve to ask my in laws (who own a top loader) if I can dye my curtains BROWN in their nice white washing machine.  They are so great – they said yes!  And this was the end result! Phew – it worked! 


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Next up – the curtain rings!  Since I only paid 3.00 for the pair of curtains I wanted to find super cheap curtain rings.  I thought, why not just use shower rings!  I found a them at the dollar store and bought 2 sets and spray painted them! 


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Honestly, I’m not sure if they will hold up (cheap plastic and spray paint usually chip off) but since I was on a STRICT budget I did what I could do!

There you have it!  Some of my fun cheap fix ups on my brothers home!

    ~CreativeJuicesDecor~

Linking to YHL - Curtain dying is shown in their new book!

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