only took me 8 months to take my last picture to turn this draft into a post

I bought two bedside tables, a coffee table and a loveseat as a package deal off a friend, knowing that soon I will have to stage our house.  They all were in poor condition or just plain ugly (the loveseat) but I'd rather save money and fix them up myself.  So here I had 1, 2... 3 more things to add to my to do list.  As usual I remembered to take a before picture half way through sanding my projects down.  But you can imagine.

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The coffee table I turned into a play/drawing table for a kids room. (currently being showcased in the nursery) 

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And the loveseat at the moment has a temporary cover until I can get around to it.

-Katie

Yellow and Antiqued

The latest thing I have been working on is refinishing a dresser for the "nursery".  We had an old one that John's Mom left when they moved so we decided to make it useable in our staging the house.

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Like the raggety fabric pulls?

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This project has actually been 90% done for months, the spacing between the holes didn't fit any standard pulls.  Annoying! (I guess why they had the fabric before).  Hence why I picked these particular pulls, the only ones that would cover up the fact that I had to elongate some of the existing holes.  Problem solved.
-Katie

Seating for two

John bought two chairs at his Grandmother's garage sale when she packed up to move to Utah last year and gave me the job of re-covering them.  I finished them a while back but just haven't gotten around to taking any after pictures, until now.  I've come to realize I do well without patterns.  I'd rather just figure it out as I go, making my own pattern in my head.  I think it's just the way my brain works.  So with that said, here they are.

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My mother has been trying to steal them,

"they look so good in my house."

The two original chairs were his and hers, the one not pictured being pink.
-Katie

My first before and after

I've been re-covering/re-finishing furniture lately so Wes had to take advantage of my new skill set I've been building.

Asked me to recover his oddly shaped mortorcycle seat.

It actually came out pretty good!

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-Katie