Yo yo!

I was reawakened to the state of my garage at the end of last week. The tile for the kitchen was delivered and I had to make room for it. There were a handful of treasures left over from the Hoard Sale (and unfortunately a handful of furniture is not the same as a handful of rice, or of books, or of well, anything representing less than 1/2 of a garage.)

As I was moving things out and back in I had a come to Jesus with myself about them. Most of it is stuff that is really great, but not my style anymore, or something that I really like but I am not going to take it to the grave.

Would you believe that in a garage full of treasures there are only 3 things that I will carry with me for as long as it takes to find their perfect home?

These are my Cold Dead Fingers pieces.

Want to see them?

Up first is the favorite chair of my life. It totally needs to be reupholstered, but MAN it is so good. I dont have a spot in our house right now, but I care,  it is not going anywhere. I bought it from my friend Amanda for $25 and I am pretty sure those cute little legs were created out of my dreams.

Next is a old brass billiard light. I bought this baby a year and 1/2 ago and I still love it just as much as the day we met. I am hoping to put it in my kitchen, the problem is that my ceilings are so tall, that it looks too short. Oh and the builder didnt center the light in the eat in area of the kitchen on anything…so the junction box needs to be moved. Court is excited about that. So I am still working out the logistics, but I am not ready to give up yet.

Last is a recent ReStore find. Last week I stopped by for a quick run through. As I was pulling out, their truck was pulling in. Latched to the back corner I saw something that was the best vintage powder blue, I knew it had to be life changing. So I flipped my car around and went to check it out. Originally they were not going to sell it, but I passed along my phone number and said if they wanted to I would buy it in a second. Later that day Tat sent me a text letting me know it was avaliable. At $79 it wasnt the cheapest thing that I have ever purchased, but it is just SO amazing, I knew I would kick myself for years if I passed it up.

Now is the really fun part. If you are on Instagram snap a picture of your most treasured piece(s) and tag it with #colddeadfingers. I LOVE seeing what your favorite things are and I know everyone else does too! In a week or so I will do a wrap up post and share my favorites!

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Remember when I told you guys that this Wicker Headboard was the starting inspiration for my entire master bedroom makeover and most of you were a little scared? Its ok,  you weren’t the only one.

Today I am putting your wondering mind at ease with the reveal. Oh and totally setting a new trend. NBD. Jump on board now my friends, because these puppies are hard enough to get when everyone still thinks they are ug.

I feel like this post should start out with 2 things.

1. DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN!

And 2. Finally.

I loved using colors from the same family so much in Dylan’s room that I had to give it a shot in my bedroom too. Luckily my boyfriend Sherwin Williams has direct access to my brain waves and tracking down the perfect Spearmint green was simple. (It is Eco Green BTW,  and make sure you buy a sample pot because you wont need much!)

I love when you can take something that people give a sideways glance at and make it a show stopper. This is why I will forever be a thrift store addict. Its just so gratifying.

Paint dipping or color blocking (however you choose to phrase it) is a VERY simple technique with a ton of impact. If you are on the fence about painting a piece of furniture,  maybe start here,  it will give you a pop of color without having to commit to the entire thing.

If the piece is small enough you can actually pick it up and dip it in paint. If it is HUGE like my headboard?

Probably not the best idea.

So here is the cheater way to get the look without spending $5000 on a zillion gallons of paint to fill your bathtub.

Start by taping off where your paint line will end. I 100% recommend ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape for any taping needs,  its my favie.

When you are painting something like Wicker, with all of its dips and grooves, you are not going to get a perfect paint line,  your just not. But it is ok, because all of those dips and grooves are going to hide it. Press your ScotchBlue into all of the spots that you can reach. If you are taping off a flat surface,  check out this post for my secret for PERFECT paint lines (its sort of life changing.)

As you are painting (especially on the paint line) start with your brush on the tape and brush away from it. If you are brushing toward the tape then you are likely shoving paint into all of the grooves that we are trying to avoid.

Once my paint was dry enough, I flipped the headboard over and painted the backside.

Remove your tape and grin at the fact that you are amazing.

To joint the 2 headboards together I used clear fishing line. A few readers gave the suggestion of binding them together with wicker strips. If I was planning on repainting the whole headboard, I TOTALLY would have done that,  but because I was not planning on repainting the white, I McGyvered it a little.

So now that it is starting to come together a little bit more are you a believer? Or are you still on the fence (don’t worry, by the end of it the fence will be a distant memory…)

Did you notice the DIY Leather Pillows and Wood Shim Stamped Curtains?

If you are in dire need of other inspiring projects there is a HUGE Ready, Set, Paint Blog Hop going on with all of your favorite DIYers, so make sure you check their goods out…you know what I mean.

Centsational Girl – Textured Panel Dresser Makeover

Thrifty and Chic Framed Stencil Wall

The Design Confidential DIY Concrete Color Block Painted Tables

Sand & Sisal Faux Etched Glass

The Girl Creative Summer Chalkboard

PB & J Stories Dipped Effect Outdoor Bench and Front Patio Makeover

In My Own Style How to Paint Outdoor Furniture

Making this Home Embellish with a Paint Border

Rustic Bench Gets Modern Moroccan-Inspired Makeover

DIY Game Table

Fun with Fireworks

Charles & Hudson – Wood Block Planter

Love of Family and Home – DIY Striped Curtain

LollyJane – Mailbox Makeover

Nesting Place – Painting with Chalk

Thistlewood Farms: How to Paint Stripes

Live Laugh Rowe: DIY Drop Cloth Table Runner

SawdustGirl – Spray-Painted-Striped Lemonade Stand Canopy

Make It: Painted Horseshoes

DIY Pet Food Station

This post was brought to you in partnership with The Home Depot and ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape.

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psst! The Homies Finals are happening RIGHT NOW and I need your help to win! I would love your vote in the Best Home Project/ DIY Blog category (we are currently in second place but a few hundred votes behind first)  I will love your guts FOREVER if you will click over and vote, it takes just a few seconds! MUAH to everyone who has already voted!

Once upon a time (about a year ago) I started working on my daughter Ivie’s room. I was working like a crazy girl to get it finished and hit a brick wall when I needed a dresser and none were to be found (this is the ONE problem with thrifting, sometimes it teaches you patience when you dont want to learn it!) But a couple of months ago the clouds parted and I found this buffet for $60.00

I actually really love the top part of it but it wasnt practical for Ivie’s room so I took it off and it now resides in the hoard in my garage.

I moved the dresser into the spot where the desk originally was and I really love it.

There is just something so FREAKIN fantastic about the legs on a mid century piece.

I am having thoughts of doing something to the inside of the rectangular panels, what do you think? Also can you spy tomorrow’s tutorial in the picture?

Here are the links to the other tutorials for this room:

So what would you do? Leave it? Change it? Steal it?

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Man I hope you guys follow me on Instagram,  those people get ALL the good secrets. Here is a story. I dropped my phone and cracked my screen a few weeks ago (I have insurance, its all good.)  I have been meaning to take it in and just haven’t made time. Well this morning Dyl dropped it again on Ivie’s Faux Bois Concrete Floor and massacred it. Like it was so sharp I lost about 5 layers of skin just sliding open my lock screen…as a matter of fact, I don’t know if I have a fingerprint on my right thumb anymore.

So as I was backing up my phone and downloading everything off of it in preparation to kiss it farewell, I was going through all of my pics and there are a TON of great things that I haven’t shared over here on the blog.

So lets catch up shall we?

Lets begin with this metal cobalt card catalog. I found it for $25, and it was DIRTY. It must have been sitting outside with all of the 15,394 drawers open because they were FULL of cotton fluff from cottonwood trees. It was not fun for this allergy infested mama. But I mean,  I would totally take cotton fluff over spiders. So I should be counting my blessings.

Its the perfect width for the spot underneath my giant shelf and thrift store art.

I currently have this freakish obsession with metal chair/stools. They make my spray paint covered heart sing. These were all around $8.00 each

And I am pretty sure that I have not properly introduced you to my new dining room chairs. They were the score of the century, I grabbed 7 for $120 total. These ones that are identical, retail for a meager $850 PER CHAIR. (Insert Carlton happy dance here.)  They are getting a quick fabric swap (tutorial coming soon!) and then moving into my dining area.

Quite a few months ago a local hotel cleaned house and gave everything to ReStore. I found 3 of these vintage hairpin end tables for $8.00 each and I wish I would have gotten more. They go anywhere and work with anything. So congrats to the St. George ladies that also bought some (and if you want to sell me a few,  hook a sistah up!)

Hope you guys have a fantastic Tuesday!!

*Homies Update! THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone for voting!! Vintage Revivals is currently in the top spot!! If this hold out we will for sure make it to the Top 6!! Love your voting guts! (and if you don’t have voting guts yet,  you can click over and vote and then you will have the infamous voting guts…I hear they are all the rage this season…)

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Sometimes projects are HUGE. They take a crapload of time and effort. And while they are usually worth it, sometimes you just want something simple. Did you know that you can literally update a dresser during naptime?!

Here is the skinny.

I found this dresser on AZ Craigslist. After a late night trip to a sketchy part of town (that may or may not have involved  Jilly having a heart attack while almost witnessing a stray cat being hit, which in turn gave the rest of us a heat attack thinking she was being carried away by drug lords or possibly someone cutting off her favorite finger. That girl can scream)

Anyway back to the dresser. It was $75 and in GREAT condition.

The one downside was that the outer shell of it was laminate. Now, normally I am not a huge fan but it was fairly realistic looking laminate and (like I mentioned before) it was in great condition. So we went with it.

Because we already had a lot of wood in Kelsey’s room (on the wall and on the sliding barn door) this happy little dresser got a quick update  just by painting the drawer fronts!

The first step is to make sure the piece is clean. Depending on the level of grime you might need to use a strong cleaner like TSP.

When its clean and dry you are ready to start! Meet your best friend. This is Kilz. It is hands down THE BEST primer on the market, especially when it comes to laminate pieces. The key to using Kilz is to shake shake shake (for a good 2 minutes) before you spray. If you don’t it will come out sandpapery and you will have to sand it smooth.

Once your primer is dry (usually between 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on the temperatures outside) give it a quick once over with 220 grit sand paper. This will make it silky smooth and make it look uber professional.

Wipe your piece down with a slightly damp rag or tack cloth to get all of the sanding dust off (if you skip this step you will have an epic spray paint fail FYI. So don’t forget!!)

Give your drawer fronts 2-3 good coats of spray paint. If you have read any of my posts about spray paint you know that I am a Krylon fan until I die. I have a few reasons I love it, let me share them with you.

1. The nozzle. Its life changing folks. Instead of spraying in a circle like most brands it sprays in a line AND it rotates. So if you are moving your can horizontally across your piece you want to make sure that your nozzle is turned to spray in a vertical line. That way it is covering a much larger area. I feel like I have WAY more control with a can of Krylon.

2. Krylon cures very quickly. If you are spray painting a piece of furniture chances are you like things done fast. There are some lines that take HOURS to cure. It is SO frustrating when you have given it adequate time and in all of your excitement pick it up and its still tacky (the one bonus to that is,  if you ever go missing and the cops need your fingerprints you can bet your hoard its perfectly impressed into that lamp.)

3. The color selection! Krylon has SO many on trend colors to choose from AND if there is one that you cant find check out this post I wrote a while ago on how to get the top secret colors you cant find anywhere else for FREE!

As much as I loved the white and wood,  this thing needed a little bit more flair. And tell me my friends, what can add more flair than bright pink?

To “color dip” a piece like this all you need is a roll of ScotchBlue and some paint (we used a sample pot from Lowes, just like I used on the Leather Belt Dresser Pulls)

Start by removing the legs if you can (it just makes it a little easier to work with). Hailee being the genius she is found a piece of Styrofoam to hold our legs

Simple and impactful my lovies.

I wanted the dresser to be super complimentary to the rest of the room without trying to steal the show. Sometimes that is what you need out of a piece of furniture.

Everything in the room cant be the star, but just because something isn’t the star doesn’t mean it needs to be generic or dull.

Did you notice the red lamp that we got for $5 from Serg?

I LOVE how this dresser turned out,  and can you believe it was such a simple project!? Do you have something that could use a 2 hour update? I want to hear all about it!

Make sure you check out the other posts in the Epic Room Makeover 2012 Giveaway:

Make sure to check out the other posts in the Epic Room Makeover 2012 Series:

Epic Room Makeover Reveal

Source List

How To Build A Simple Sliding Barn Door

How To Play “Lets Make A Deal!”

How To Drill Through Glass (Video Tutorial!)

Love Your Guts, Mandi

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What do you do when you have approximately $10 to spend on replacing outdated drawer pulls? (Pssst… you get CREATIVE!) This is one of my favorite projects from Mandi’s Fall Facelift.

For this project all you need is a leather belt, hex screws, paint and a drill.

Start by painting the back side of your belt. I bought a sample/tester size (do this to save save save!!)  You will need at least 2 coats because the leather is going to absorb your first layer pretty fantastically.

When your paint is dry take a straight edge and mark where you need to cut your belt. Each of our straps were 5 inches long.

Use your drill to drill 2 holes into your straps and insert your Hex screw.

So simple and such a fun way to add a little bit of secret color to your furniture.

There are only 3 days left to submit your room for the Epic Room Makeover Giveaway and have me come to YOUR house for a complete room makeover on MY dime! Get more info here!

Love Your Guts, Mandi

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If you have read my blog for the last 2 or so months it has come to your attention that I am currently OBSESSED with wood. I love how in a sea of bright colors and patterns it grounds the room with a natural element. BUT the thing that I love even more than a piece of wood furniture is a multi toned piece of wood furniture. This tutorial is ALL about creating something so much bigger than just a desk. This thing is like…an EVENT, its so good.

This project is simple. All you need are 2 ingredients. ScotchBlue Tape with Edgelock and wood stain.

Start with something that needs serious help. Like this old sewing cabinet that I have hoarded for quite some time.

For reals this thing survived the FIRST Hoard Sale I have had it that long.

I knew from the second I saw it that it would be a desk in Ivie’s room, it just took me a while to get the room ready for IT.

Start by sanding the surface to remove any old topcoat and stain.

Stain your basecoat. I used Natural.

Then its time to start taping.

Because stain is so different than paint it is CRUCIAL that you use a quality product. ScotchBlue is the ONLY kind of tape that I use.

You can tape your piece with evenly spaced lines or you can randomize it like I did.

Once your piece is all taped its time to stain! I used 4 different colors of stain (Natural, Dark Walnut, Indigo, and Provincial Oak)

Once your stain had dried remove your tape. Then its time to start taping all over again. Overlay the parts that were just stained to make different colors.

This is what you will end up with after 3 rounds of taping and staining.

Give it a final coat of Danish Oil to shine it up and bring out the true colors and you are DONE!

I spray painted 2 of the drawers (white and sun yellow) and gold leafed the 3rd one.

I learned a few things along the way so here is a short video with some tips and tricks:

ScotchBlue has started a new promotion geared to who WE are as DIYers. Its called ScotchBlue Ribbons and its all about rewarding creativity.

They want you to show off your favorite creative projects from around the web, whether or not the project specifically used ScotchBlue tape. The promotion and a gallery of creative projects is found on ScotchBlue Facebook Page .

Projects are grouped into 4 categories: artistic visionaries, interior style, family crafters and do & DIY. And here is how you can win!

1. Enter your email address for a chance to win one of hundreds of daily samples that we’re giving away (over 300 per day!)
2. Install a ScotchBlue Ribbon bookmark button on your  browser to nominate projects from around the web in just a few clicks. Consumers who nominate projects will be entered into a pool to win a cool sample pack and $150. Winners will be chosen based on the creativity of the projects that they submit.

THESE DO NOT NEED TO BE YOUR OWN PROJECTS! They are basically giving you a chance to win some ScotchBlue and $150 for nominating projects you like (and we all have pinboards FULL of great projects….you get where I am going with this right?)

So get going people!!

Here are a few more shots of Ivie’s room

You can see the tutorials for the Tribal Triangle Wall, Faux Bois Concrete Floor, and Lantern Chandelier here.

Love  Your  Guts,  Mandi

This post is a collaboration with ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape, the project created and opinions expressed are Mandilicious all the way.

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Hooray!! The couch is HERE!

If you are new or unfamiliar with the couch dilemma you can check out this post (there are TONS of amazing comments so check those out too!)

The inner turmoil that I was having was about to make me explode (first world blogger problems I know)  The other problem that I was running into was the lack of options,  It is super hard to find a vintage couch in great condition, especially a velvet one.

But the heavens opened when I saw that one of my favorite friends Kathy posted that she had a couch to sell. It was tufted, velvet, and ORANGE and in great condition! I was sold.

Now I know what you are thinking. WHITE WALLS? In Mandi’s house?!! Oh my friends, there is so much more to be done. I have a custom stencil from Royal Design Studios that should be arriving in a few days and LOTS of other things that are in process right now that I cant wait to show you!

So what do you think? Do you love the couch? Do you think I made the wrong choice? Do you have an old couch that you love??

Love  Your  Guts,  Mandi

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