The Homeless Finch was Featured! and Sneak Peek Into the Master Bathroom Project

It's been an exciting week at The Homeless Finch.  I am busy with a few projects related to the Master Bathroom Project.  Finally making some headway and I can't wait to show you guys the progress! I have some progress shots below of the cabinet that I installed on the wall in the bath.

So, first thing is first. The Homeless Finch has also gotten a little recognition and I wanted to send out

Thanks Yous

First up, thank you to SewWoodsy...My son's Red Hot Chili Pepper Table was Featured this week Click on the button if you want to take a look at the other neat features too!

Second thank you goes to RoadKill Rescuer!  I submitted my Night Stand Rescue and it went live on their site at 8 PM on Monday evening.  Click on the button to check it out if you want.

It's such a wonderful thing when someone likes what I am doing.  Everyone loves a little kudos!  Ya know?!

NEXT UP!

So you want to see a sneak peek at the cabinet that I hung in the Master Bathroom?  Yes? Well, then...okay! 

Here is what it looked like last week.

Here is what it looks like today. 

Sorry....I didn't tell you to don your sunglasses!! No worries. This is a layer of sorts and the yellow will be toned down by glazes.  I have learned to start bright, or the finished product looks dull and lifeless.  Here is another progress shot.

Shutters getting
 a coat of white paint.

I might have saturated that image above a little too much. Sorry.  I am going to add a lot of antique white today, let it cure and come back with my sanding block.  Hopefully I will have something to show you by Thursday.

Also...remember the shutters I told you about in the blog post, Gotta Get the Shutters Up?  The last time your saw them, they had just been constructed.  Well, after a couple of coats of white paint, they are hung up on the windows in the bathroom. Boy do they look awesome! Thinking I will reveal them this week too, so stay tuned! 



Last Year's Jack-O-Lantern
by my daughter



Did you guys realize that it is Halloween this weekend! Yikes! I gotta get out and pick up some treats so that I don't get tricked!  My kids are teenagers now.  Teens don't go out to trick or treat around here.  What about you?  What are the traditions where you live?  What age do most of the kids in your neighborhood stop?  It's kinda a sad thing, really.  I guess they are just too cool.  Worst part is there no candy for me to sneak when they are back at school. (wink)

-The End-

Nightstand Upcycle...I'm Over At dreamingincolor Today Too!

This little nightstand was something I picked up on a neighbor's trash pile.  I revealed it on the same day as a guest post over at dreamingincolor.  Hope you enjoy the following post. 

"Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test.  Tie your napkin around your neck, Cherie.  We'll provide the rest!" Okay..okay.  I will be quiet. Sorry.  Sorry.  It's just that I have been singing that song over and over out loud to myself.  Why you ask? (You did ask, right?!)  Well, I'm so excited! Yeah! I'm a guest today over at my friend Deneen's blog, dreamingincolor!  She was nice enough to ask me to introduce myself to her followers.  If you want to see my Yak Attack over at her blog click HERE to go there.  But remember to come back because I have a furniture reveal today!! 

The Furniture Reveal:

A Curbed Night Stand Gets A Makeover

If you are visiting here from dreamingincolor or one of the linky parties that I have joined this week, Welcome!  In anticipation that some of Deneen's followers just might have wanted to take a peek at The Homeless Finch, I planned a furniture reveal for today.  Fun!

If you have already been following my blog, I don't expect you to remember a post I wrote months ago about a trash pick nightstand. But if you remember ugly things, you might!  I picked up the beast out of a trash pile in a neighbor's front yard about a block away.  Well, the nightstand has sat in my garage for months.  I ignored it.  I pretended it wasn't there.  I had no idea what I wanted to do with it.  I dragged it out this week and decided to just go for it.  I mean, what do I have to lose?!! 

Here is the before photo I took months ago the day I trash picked it.

Before

Before.  Pretty...NOT!

I know.  It's ugly and why on earth would I have brought this little disaster home?  Well, I saw promise.  I saw opportunity.  I saw something going to a landfill and wanted to do my part to save the environment.  Yep. I know.  I'm nuts.  But that's me and I am very excited with the results.

I bought a yard of fabric from Joann's with a 50% off coupon and decided to put a base coat of white on the nightstand.  After I painted it with two coats of Annie Sloan's Old White, I cut out the fabric to fit the sides and the inside bottom of the nightstand and used my Modge Podge to fix it into place making sure I used my scraper to smooth out any wrinkles and tightly affix the fabric to the surface.  I also hand cut out motifs from the fabric and used them as accents on the table top. I painted the hardware with a satin finish black spray paint.  I finished the piece off with MinWax Wipe On Poly to give it a little more durability. 

Here are the results...



 I am so please with the results.  Best part? This little gem will live to see another day, not our local landfill!  Win win I'd say.  I want to again give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to Deneen over at dreamingincolor for hosting me as a guest today.  This is the first time I have ever done something like that and I am grateful to her for the opportunity.  PLEASE don't leave without following my blog.  I would love to have you stay and hang out for a while. Heck...maybe someday we might even meet for coffee!!

-The End-

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This post is being featured on Roadkill Rescuer!!!! See the link below..

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Surprise Decoupage Table For My Teenage Son. It's a Hot Chili...But Not The One You Are Thinking.

Pic from the redo a few years back.
 Just to give you an idea of the room.

In between doing projects for the home and such, I slipped in a little something special for my teenage son.   My son is a musician and a song writer.  His room is dominated by his passions with three guitars, a mandolin and a ukulele sitting on his futon, an electric keyboard propped up in the corner and his mic for recording on a stand in the middle.  He also likes to collect vintage 70s rock albums and has them displayed on the walls in his room.  I just got rid of his loft bed and his mattress is currently laying on the floor.  Funny thing, he loves it there and doesn't want a bed! Teenagers.  What ya gonna do?

As soon as we get the garage cleared of a bunch of junk, I am having it painted. At the same time my son's room is going to get a fresh coat.  The walls are pretty banged up.  Ya gotta wonder what the heck he does in there?!  I have ordered wall hooks for his guitars and can't wait to get the guitars out of harms way.  The futon is just not a place to put this type of stuff. 

Notice one has a hole. bummer. But he says it
sounds nice anyway.

Months ago, I showed you his clothing shelf here.  It was always such a mess.  We tried everything, but in the end when the loft bed went, so did the shelf.  I re-organized his closet and his clothes are doing pretty good in a four draw Rubbermaid unit. 

So what is the special project?  Well, he had this table in his room that I brought home from a trash pick off a neighbor's pile.  I took it out in an effort to de-clutter. Plus, it just never matched and looked ridiculous sitting in the middle of his room.  Well, he really misses the darn thing. Come to find out, it was the perfect 'coffee table' that he liked placing his electric keyboard onto when he played it...which is often.  Bad mommy.  Putting style in front of function. (wink)

Knowing that he needs this table back, I decided to surprise him with a presto chango project.  His hands down favorite band of all time is the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  I gotta admit, I like them a lot too.  I researched online for The Red Hot Chili Peppers and found a collection of black and white images of them taken over the band's long career. I arranged them in a collage the size of the table top. 

I painted the table satin black.

I then decoupaged a collage of the images onto the top of the table.  I first used a fixative spray on the images in an attempt to keep them from smearing and the ink bleeding. 

But in the end, the red ink still bled through when I was applying the first top coat of Modge Podge.  I decided to just 'go with it.'  Turned out to be a happy accident because it left behind a patina that gave the top a little visual interest. 

You can kinda see the pink that mixed with the
first coating of Modge Podge.  I spread that out
to create a pinkish-purple hue in places.

Here you can really see the pink accents.  It's cool.

So here it is ready to be presented.  He has no idea that I have done this.  He thinks the table is gone forever.  So excited to see if he likes it. Fingers crossed.

I have been researching cool ideas on how to get his bed a little off the ground.  I thought this one was kinda cool.  I have it on my Pinterest if you want to take a look at it there.  What do you think? 

Do you have any great ideas for creating a platform? Send them along.  Maybe I will surprise him again with a totally cool platform for his mattress.  Sometimes it's fun to do surprise projects for my kids. After all, they put up with their crazy artist mother everyday.  It might as well benefit them too. Right!?

-The End-
THIS POST WAS FEATURED!!!! YEAH!