With a son and a husband in the house, I have not has a coffee table in years. They see the living room as more of a wrestling arena rather than a relaxing space. It's been a nice few weeks breaking this two toned solid wood beauty in. $80 18" tall 25.5" wide 50" long

Allie found us through our ad on Craigslist...lets hope Craigslist never starts charging! She asked us to come and help her redecorate her master bedroom. She had collected multiple pieces of furniture over the years and was ready for a cohesive look. We set up a time to meet with her in her space to get a feel of the land and for her to explain what she really wanted...45 minutes later I was dragging her old furniture to my car to take it home to give them new facelifts. I screamed over my shoulder, "so we got the job?" Her room was a really good size, which gave us tons of options for ideas! We decided a sitting space was needed and lots of storage...yeah, she is girl. Allie loves her puppies, so we wanted to make sure we had photos of the pooches in her room. Filling the rest of the room with a combination of new decor and her personal items made her room like "home". Job well done in my opinion.

Somehow this blog entry never posted...so here ya go!  Happy customers! So, we finished the Craigslist customers living room, dining room, entry way and kitchen. I would like to thank the Academy and God and my manager...wait, that's my other life. But seriously, I would like to thank our families for putting up with the long hours of not seeing Kasey and I ...as she would say, "our built in babysitters." Cody and Jonathan really are amazing husbands and dads. They are up for rent. Remember everything is for sell! Completing this project really confirmed that you do not need a huge budget to have a complete, beautiful and personalize space. Mixing new and old pieces is truly the key. Say you hate your huge entertainment center you bought off the side of the road in 2000....like everyone else did that year. Don't throw it away! Think of ways to give it a facelift. You could chop it half or maybe turn it side ways...definitely paint that big boy! For the customer's end tables in the living room, we used an antique saw horse and a table made from an old suitcase. The coffee table is a cabinet door attached to a metal thingy with wheels I found at a junk yard. It turned out to be the perfect height! Instead at adding a traditional love seat to match the couch, we found a chase lounge. Just as much seating but with an different look. The small table by the sitting chair did not have a drawer face when Kasey bought it. She was able to customize the color of the fence wood, nail it to the front, which added a pop of color to the room. Yes red, but a small, tiny, inzzie binzy bit of red. Most of the bigger pieces of furniture was either in our garages or found on Craigslist. Their entry way table was an old sewing machine repainted with a cool duck egg blue color and a black stain. The entertainment center is an antique buffet. So cool! You just are not going to find a piece like this at Pottery Barn...for sure, a one of a kind! We used an antique foot board that someone had added a board it to make a shelf behind the couch. Chippy paint and all. Once we had the big pieces in place, we wanted to personalize their home based on our first consultation. On the fence wood entryway wall, we hung up a picture frame with chicken wire for photos.  If you look way up high you will see that we burned their initials on one of the planks like you would see lovers do on a tree. I could go on and on about the projects we did for these guys but the pictures really explain themselves. On to stage 37... The office. ~Jessie

Wooden love sign $30