I Love My Green Planet

If you want to add a little bit of fun to your kitchen

this is a great and easy way to add a splash of character. Contact paper used to just be some ugly stuff you would use to line your drawers with, but it has come a LONG way. These days people are making things look like swanky marble with some simple contact paper. Adding contact paper to a small appliance is a cheap and temporary way to give your kitchen a little upgrade. I mean who wouldn’t want a marble microwave? We want to help you DIY, so some of the materials in this post are linked to sellers. Just so you know, Hometalk may collect a small share of sales from the links on this page.

It occurred to me the other day that I have over a thousand projects

pinned on my DIY to-do list Pinterest board, and do you know what? I haven’t done near as many as I should have!

So in an effort to try out all the projects I have pinned, I am going to do a DIY challenge every Friday.

I’m beyond excited to share this before and after with you.

Ever since I first laid eyes on this file cabinet, I wanted to turn it into a hall tree bench. One of our customers, Laurie, stopped by to buy a different piece and asked me what plans I had for the file cabinet.

Once I told her, she said that she needed something exactly like that!! YAY! I was sooo excited to have an excuse to get started.
Here it was before!!

I did a post earlier this year on stenciling my boring white hall.

It is very narrow with multiple doors. I did not want to do the typical thing of hanging family pictures and the hall is too narrow for furniture or even shelves. To add interest, I decided to stencil the upper half and my sweet Hubs did ‘faux’ panels on the bottom. If you’re interested, .

Finally, I found three metal pieces to decorate the walls. Please let me know what you think. We finally replaced the builder grade ceiling light, so be sure to go to the last picture to see the updated light fixture that we created from a 1920’s lamp shade.

A fresh coat of paint and colorful

details turned my guest room into a charming, tropical oasis for my new baby!