Inspiration Round Up: Part I

Here are a few projects that landed in my inbox recently that I hope you like as much as I do:

Hannah was inspired by this post and painted her own version of Warhol's Rorschach. Love it!


Grace, a Boston-based reader, picked this chair up for $35 from a craigslist seller.



She had it reupholstered in a beautiful Scalmandre remnant she bought at Zimmans in Lynn. I love the colors! That green and pink together!! They really pop against the new white paint.



The chair makes a great addition to Grace's living room. She is pretty fearless about mixing patterns and I love it!


Here's another beautiful chair makeover. Reader Sherry struggled with a problem I think many of us have. She inherited this beautiful, but very traditional channel back chair from her grandfather.


After years of contemplating fabric choices, Sherry bit the bullet and ordered fabric from (UK based company) Sanderson's new line, called Callisto.


She said she thought it was a risk considering the scale of the print, but she loves the finished product. I think it's a great example of how to modernize a really traditional chair, with the solid velvet on the seat and a pretty pattern on the back.



Sherry also did a good job mixing florals here with her wallpaper. It really works because the scales and the background colors of the two patterns are so different. Lovely!! (Also LOVE that console!)


Polkadot patterns are hard to DIY. It drives me nuts when the spacing isn't exact. Natasha from Samster Mommy came up with a clever method that uses cheap yard sale stickers to mark off a polkadot pattern.




And here's the 'after' photos of her daughter's adorable nursery. The pink and blue combo is really fun.



I especially love those blue cane print curtain panels. (Are these sheets, Natasha?)



Here's another fun paint treatment -- Katie from A Home Blog was sort of over her brown bedroom walls, so rather than repainting the whole room, so used a can of leftover cream paint to add a chevron pattern.


I think it helps to tone down the formerly dark walls a lot. And you can't beat a free project! See Katie's instructions HERE.


Natalie (who is a decorator) loved these lamps from Shades of Light, but was not loving the high price tag.


She saw these vases at Michaels and picked up a light kit at Home Depot and glue some ring pulls on to the side medallions.


I think the result is beautiful! Check out her really well done tutorial with more photos HERE.


Maria from John's Journal used one of my favorite tricks of covering bamboo blinds with fabric. The result is super sturdy window coverings that look very professional.


I like that she trimmed out the borders too.


Also, did you spy her wine rack? Maria rescued a piece of discarded furniture and covered it in python contact paper! So pretty.



Many thanks to these contributors!! Stay tuned for Part II tomorrow. xx

27 comments:

  1. Such a good post! Some people are just really clever. . . Or brave! I love the spot in the nursery-lucky baby! LovT

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  2. I added more things to " the to do list" , thanks for sharing.
    Please come enter my first give away:)

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  3. I absolutely loved this post. Its so much fun to see how creative people are!

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  4. My head is spinning!! All of these ideas are so good. I love how you turned a vase into a beautiful lamp.
    Amazing!!

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  6. the first painting is AMAZING!! and the chevron walls are great!! just did a mini chair recovering of my own! it was a success :) xo

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  7. so many good ideas here!

    Love that scalamandre fabric and that green vase to lamp was genius. (Guess I'm on a green kick!)

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  8. So happy to see my sister's lamp on here! They are even more beautiful in person. Cant wait for Part II!

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  9. Wow so much amazing design inspiration! Those lamps are so creative and I love the large scale floral pattern on the back of the vintage chair. Beautiful!

    -Forever Lovely

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  10. This was a terrific post--thanks for sharing these great ideas!

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  11. I was concerned I was having spam comments this morning but then remembered my sister said something about submitting my lamps to you. Thanks for featuring them! It wa a fun easy project. Love your blog! :)

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  12. Ooh nice, I love to see the ways in which people are creative! Great post!

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  13. What an amazing roundup! thanks so much for featuring me- I am really honored- and thank you for the endless inspiration!!!

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  14. I love seeing before and after pics of anything and everything and then seeing it in the room. That first one is such a great example...I didn't LOVE the chair until i saw it in the room. What a great vision she had for that chair.

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  15. so many fun ideas! I just bought bamboo shades, you make me want to cover them but I think my husband might kill me.

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  16. great post! Pretty much every image made it to my pinterest 'diy ideas' board. Thank you for all the inspiration!

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  17. Thanks for posting my chevron wall!! Love the other ideas people had. so creative!

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  18. Thank you so much for featuring my nursery Jenny! And I just love seeing everyone else's beautiful homes.

    The panels are actually from Land of Nod, they're pretty cheap & come in really nice colors. I really want to stick them in MY bedroom, I don't think you'd ever know they're from a kid's store!

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  19. Hi, I just found your lovely blog via la la lovely. I love the readers chevron wall. Thanks for sharing the link, I will definately be checking it out.

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  20. Looks good so very nice, I really like the design. Just beautiful.

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  21. Thank you so much for including my chair. How fun to be in the company of such creative people. Thank you for being such and endless source of inspiration.
    Sherry

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  22. i love the chairs, i've been wanting to reupholster one of our chairs for awhile, but i've been scared to commit to a fabric. time to bite the bullet!

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  23. What?! These are crazy great ideas. I am going to check them out now, and follow in their footsteps!

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