Vintage Mirror With Gold Tint

October 16, 2015 By Meegan 3 Comments

Hello everyone! It is so good to have you here. This week has been a little slow for me. But, I am doing well and happy to be here on my blog. Especially to show you my Vintage Mirror With Gold Tint.

I received this mirror shortly after my grandfather passed away. It hung in my grandparents bedroom along with their bedroom furniture as long as I can remember.

The frame of the mirror was a dull gold, coppery color. A little boring and “heavy” looking.

About 5 years ago, when I was trying to lighten up our small condo, I painted the frame of the mirror Turquoise Mist from Olympic Paint. It has been that way ever since.

Using a Door For a Living Room Accessory

July 10, 2015 By Meegan 10 Comments

Happy almost weekend! I hope your week has been full of family, friends and those you love. Ours most certainly has. I love Summer visits from and with the grandkiddos. It makes me smile A LOT.

Another thing that makes me smile is… Using a Door For a Living Room Accessory. Yep, you read that right. Let me tell you a little bit about my adventure with this door…

I saw this at my local thrift store and for $20, I couldn’t pass it up.

The shapes, the curves were everything I wanted for the

Roman Rustic Desk Makeover

June 25, 2015 By Meegan 13 Comments

Good Morning everyone! I am happy to be a part of yet another Themed Furniture Makeover Day. It is always one of my favorite days of the month. This month the theme is “Rustic”. We could use our own interpretation of what rustic could be. I love being creative and seeing what my imagination could come up with, don’t you?

If you have been here in the past, you may have seen a few of my other furniture makeovers, including:

Small Table Makeover

Pottery Barn Inspired Night Stand

How To Repair A Rattan Chair

Today my “Rustic” themed makeover is worth spending your time here…

Small Side Table Makeover Using Fusion Mineral Paint

May 21, 2015 By Meegan 19 Comments

Happy Thursday! And welcome to Themed Furniture Makeover Day. It is one of my favorite posts each month. Several bloggers have a theme, choose a piece of furniture and do their interpretation of the theme. This month’s theme is small tables.

I chose to work on a Small Side Table Makeover Using Fusion Mineral Paint. I got the paint as a sample at SNAP! Conference and also used a portion on my “new” vintage sign.

This is the small table is about to make a transformation from light pink to a beachy color called Laurentine. This color will be ideal for a new look on our front porch.

The table was a sample from when my husband was a furniture sales rep. He carried this metal and glass table around in his car, show it to furniture store owners and then I ended up keeping it. When it was a sample, it was a gray, steel color. It was nice for the time, but I wanted a little color to it.

I painted it with craft paint mixing white with a few drops of red to make it light pink. It has been like that for a few years, and I have never really liked it. Weird how that happens, isn’t it?Continue Reading

How To Make Your Own Vintage Sign

May 18, 2015 By Meegan 12 Comments

I have been infatuated with the whole idea of How To Make Your Own Vintage Sign for awhile now. I even shared a post 2 years ago about 12 Homemade Signs. I had found each one of them on Pinterest.

After a few years I decided it was time for me to make my own vintage sign. It is a knock off of the ones I found on Pinterest. Of course, I added my own twist, but it looks amazing for our home.

Not only that…But, several of my blogging friends have knocks offs of their own. I can’t wait to see what they have come up with. Their knock off creations will be listed in the bottom of this post.

Here is a quick peek at my sign. Can you say love???

Now let me show you my version of How To Make Your Own Vintage Sign…

Themed Furniture Makeover Day

April 23, 2015 By Meegan 14 Comments

Welcome to Themed Furniture Makeover Day! It’s that one time a month when several bloggers do a furniture makeover. It’s always fun to see the interpretation that each blogger takes.

This month’s theme is Pottery Barn Inspired. I thought this would be a pretty easy theme. But after perusing though PB online and their catalogs, I was a little stumped.

But this is the piece I wanted to mimic:

Pottery Barn

Their cost: $279

No, thank you.

Best of March

April 9, 2015 By Meegan 1 Comment

Welcome to the Best of March on What Meegan Makes.

Best of March with meeganmakes.com

It is always fun to look back and see what I have been doing over the past month. It helps me see what I have been doing and helps me keep on track with my projects around our home. In turn YOU get to see as well. Yay!

#BestofDIY-My Farmhouse Coffee Table Makeover

March 19, 2015 By Meegan 14 Comments

Welcome to #BestofDIY-My Farmhouse Coffee Table Makeover!

Your hosts tonight are:

Yep, some of the best and talented bloggers around. This IS where you want to be tonight!

Some of the best bloggers around sharing THEIR #BestofDIY tonight. So much goodness in one place!

Tonight I am thrilled to share of of my favorite furniture makeovers and one of MY BEST DIYs, to date.

From Garage Sale Bench to Farmhouse Coffee Table meeganmakes.com

Best of 2014-Day 1

December 22, 2014 By Meegan 2 Comments

Good Morning! I am happily writing this post from my mom’s home in the hills of So. California. We are here for the week to start our Christmas parties tonight. My mom has a tradition of hosting all of her kids, grandkids and great-grandbabies for a fun night of food, white elephant gifts, games, and MORE food. I can hardly wait!

BUT, right now I am sharing with you of MY Best of 2014-Day 1 .

I hope you enjoy it as much today, as you did the first time I posted it. It was featured on Shabby Art Boutique and French Country Cottage. SO, I was MORE than pleased with it.
Happy Tuesday!! And it’s time for me to share my thrifted Buffet Makeover!! Woo Woo!! I am seriously so excited to share my thrifted buffet with you on this lovely Tuesday.

You know how you are looking for something, and you KNOW exactly what it is, but you haven’t ever seen one before??? Well that is how this was for me.

I was at the thrift store crossing my fingers for a dresser type thing to hold some of my crafts. My vintage cupboard holds the other crafts. But, I have SO many, I needed another cupboard.

Okay, so back to the story…I was walking towards the back of the store and said to myself,”You can’t spend over $40 on a dresser. That is WAY too much. Be patient.”

Well low and behold, I spotted this buffet. She was just the right size, measurements AND

just the right price!! Five dollars UNDER what I wanted to pay. I love when that happens, don’t you???

She has shelves and folding shutter doors, what more could I want, right???

Here is the before and after. Oh my, I am crushing on this buffet.

I started out by painting her with a white primer. Very sloppily, I might add. I had a vision of having her freshly painted before Thanksgiving.

But REAL life took over, and I finally finished her on Monday.

I spotted these door pulls at Hobby Lobby the day after I brought her home. They spoke to me. And wanted to be on the buffet. (Not really, but it fun to imagine)

Using Clark and Kensington Flat Ancient Gray, I began to choose where I would accent my buffet/craft cupboard.

I decided to accent the drawers, the shutter doors and the top.

And, yes, I painted right over the drawer handles with my paint brush. Easy peasy.

While I was painting I remembered these other drawer pulls I bought over a year ago, hoping to find something to use them on. Don’t they look great??

As I was painting, I liked the look of the sloppily painted primer. So I left it as is. It fits my taste and my style, so why change it, right??

Have YOU ever just left primer as a finished look???

The total cost for my Thrifted Buffet Makeover??? $35. I had both the primer and the Ancient Gray already. So I used what I had.

I was so excited for you to see the outcome. I am glad you stopped by today for Best of 2014-Day 1.

Your comments and visits make me smile everyday.

For MORE of MY Best of 2014, and YOUR favorite posts, visit:

Add a graphic to furniture the easy way

Mix styles and patterns to create YOUR Own Style

Make it a lovely Monday filled with Christmas lights, baking and some hot chocolate…

Snowflake Trio Topiaries

December 18, 2014 By Meegan 2 Comments

Here we are ONE WEEK from Christmas! Are you ready? Are you having guests over? Do you need a small gift for a special friend or neighbor? Do you need a simple centerpiece for your Christmas table? Try making my Snowflake Trio Topiaries.