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Vintage Table Cloth into Art – BethAnnDoing.com

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I found this on ebay and I love it.

With a bit of work it turned out PERFECT !
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As I unfolded it….it was better than the pictures on ebay
 
vintage tablecloth and make it wall art 
Lots of fold lines.Tutorial how to take a vintage tablecloth and made it wall art
With a water spray bottle and lots of ironing the folds came out
Made a trip to Lowes and with 1″ x 2″ boards made a square 50″ x 48″
Braces down the middle both length and width.
vintage tablecloth and made it wall art
Lots of staples and pulling
Tutorial how to take a vintage tablecloth and made it wall art
My wonderful Wall center piece.
Tutorial how to take a vintage tablecloth and made it wall art

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Re-painting a Wall in My Kitchen

It’s the small things that seems to make me happy anymore. This past week I decided to paint our wall going into the Kitchen.  Not a huge project, but I really like the way it turned out.   I’m Pinterest crazy, I don’t play games on my phone, I pinterest.   
I saw something like this, but she had it as a library in a children’s room. Here is what I did.
Library shelves on wallHere is my before wall, I did this about four years ago. First I, removed everything, filled holes, sanded a bit, then painted the wall same color as our kitchen cabinets.   The black table is what I was worried about painting over. 
adding library wall shelveslibrary wall
But using Benjamin Moore Advance Paint, not a paid spot, but should be !   Not a problem, first coat covered it perfect.
library wallI did two coats of paint
 I purchased these shelves, with prime here in 2 days !  This is an affiliate link, I receive a few cents of you click on this link and order !  I am NOT a big going shopping, but I’m a great researcher and clicker to purchase. 

I will merchandise it all up, probably a couple of times….Now on the FIFTH go with it, always a  work in progress

library wall

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It’s All About the Plaid, How I Painted my Plaid Walls

New Look to my sewing room. 

How to paint a plaid design on a wall

Our plan had been to live in the condo for a bit and then purchase a house, you know a house like we sold..I don’t think that is happening anytime soon. AND… I hate my sewing room, yes I said it, “HATE” my sewing room. This is the THIRD do of it, there was no committee meeting about it…since Husband retired, he cares about me decorating??? 

I painted the two walls the standard white of our condo about two weeks before doing the strips. And BEFORE you all go off the deep end, I’m a REALLY good painter and I don’t cover things, I am slow and steady. Kind of, I paint at my own risk. BUT, you may need to cover….How to paint a plaid THIS piece of paper is the most important of ALL.  Plan it out. I like to work a couple of hours a day. I NEVER paint when I am tired. Nothing goes right and I really like painting so for me it’s get up, breakfast and paint. In the pool by 1:00, always my end goal.

I used a level and one of my quilting rulers, ten inch one, very fine lines across the wall with a pencil and then added the blue tape just on the outside of the lines.

I added the Valspar Clear Glaze to the paint, it’s doesn’t change the paint color it just lets you work a bit longer with the paint, it doesn’t dry as fast. NOT a paid promo…

I finished painting the strips and removed the tape pretty quickly.

painting a plaid wall

I let it dry a couple of days and then added the up and down strip. Same as before, measure, mark, tape and paint.

how to paint a plaid wall

how to paint a plaid wall

Did just a bit of touch up and I LOVE it.

I designed and built a HUGE table, with Husband’s help, will share soon.

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