Welcome To Our Space: Art is Beauty

Welcome to my new space!

One year old and ready to grow!

And look who's here to help me celebrate...

Karin from Art is Beauty!

One of my all-time favorite bloggers.

Sweet...

Kind...

Unbelievable artist...

And generous to a fault!

I always enjoy our time together each morning when we both seem to be on Facebook at the same time with our morning cups of coffee!

My favorite time of day!

We've come to the conclusion that we're soul sisters.

LOL!

She's absolutely fantastic!
  
But don't take my word for it.

You only have to check out her most famous project.

Ever.

So, without further ado...

Here's Karin with her fantastically famous 
Entertainment Center turned Potting Shed!

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WHEW!!! 

What a doozie!! 

It's done...  

Almost...

I just have to seal it with Exterior spar urethane 
when its cured but other than that...

It's done!!! 

:)

This is what it looked like BEFORE....

Our friend had moved and somehow 
his armoire had gotten broken.

You can see here the door was ripped off at one of the joints. 

I thought about fixing it since the original plan 
was to put it in our bedroom...

But with the broken door I thought I had a BETTER idea.

You see I have been looking around Pinterest 
and been wanting a potting shed forever 
and Pinterest wasn't helping curb my appetite. 

So one night while the thing sat on my patio I thought...

BINGO...

Potting shed...

Now I know its Oak and its meant to be inside, 
but I also know that I want it to weather and look old.

Sooo...

PERFECT.

I just happened to LUCK out at Home Depot and scored a
$7 gallon of  Behr Primer and Paint ULTRA.

Its a $32 gallon and the color was perfect.

Someone's OOPS paint 
was my PERFECT paint.

Well, the Oops paint score further enticed the bug in my butt, 
or bee in my bonnet...

Whatever you want to call it.

NOW I had to do it.

It was such a BEAUTIFUL day and its not suppose to rain for the next few days, so NO time like the present.

SOOO... 

I painted the outside with the oops and
the inside with a pale yellow paint that I had.

You see...

SO far I have spent only $7.

That's IT.

While the paint was drying I was thinking what I wanted to do 
to decorate and enhance my new beloved potting center. 

Well,  I remembered I had just bought these cool little
rod iron brackets at Goodwill.

So...

I grabbed a scrap piece of wood, 
painted it with the oops paint, 
and attached my brackets.

While that was drying I had found some more scrap deck boards that I had painted with the oops paint too.

Those I just quickly painted on 
"herbs" and "flowers".

I started putting it all together.

Loving it more and more.

I found an old shelf in my shed with hooks on it, 
just laying in my shed. 

I had gotten it free from my sister.

Thanks, Stacy. :)

 

You see the cute little block shelf on the bottom...

That used to be the DVD holder that was hanging from the top.

I just flipped it over and hacked off some of the trim, 
so that it could lay flat.

I also had some slate tiles in my shed that I had also gotten for.....

WAIT FOR IT...

FREE!!!

:)

So TOTAL cost...

11 bucks!

HA!! 

I love it!!!

IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

At least to me...

I hope you think it's a BEAUTY too.

Karin

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Beautiful??????

How about stunning?

Ingenious?

Gorgeous?????

WOW.

And for only $11.00!!

Needless to say, Karin found out just how gorgeous her potting shed is.  

She's now famous throughout blogland and Pinterest
for this awesome $11.00 makeover.

And that "OOPS!" color?

In love!!

Thanks, Karin for coming over to help me break in my new space and celebrate my one year blogversary!

You rock, girl!

Be sure to check out Karin HERE
and see her newly made-over space.

See?

Soul Sisters!

But before you leave, please take time to "follow" me,
so you can stay up to date on all the happenings here at
Our Prairie Home!

You don't want to miss tomorrow's guest post from
Jen @ Four Marrs & One Venus!

She has such a cute idea to share with you!


Have a blessed day, y'all and I'll see you tomorrow!

XO,