Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Garage Sale Obsession (kinda)

First of all I have to say thanks to my hubby, not only does he not think I'm crazy when I tell him I want to do this (or any of my other wild brained ideas), but he supports and encourages me! Pretty much the month of May I would go to garage sales early (too early) in the morning, look for unloved but salvageable items and bring them home with me. Then I would spend the rest of the weekend at the craft store, hardware store, and our backyard with sander and spray paint in hand.

This is one of my FAVORITE pieces! I LOVE the hot pink color that frames this mirror, but I can't keep all my projects or I will end up on an episode of hoarders. So this piece along with a few of the others are available at my etsy store Love, Lynch (if you're local disregard the shipping cost)
 This bench and the one below are both painted black with a burlap top.  I have a new found obsession with burlap ;-)
 Painting/Stenciling burlap is somewhat easy (somewhat = it took me several tries to figure out how much paint and the best way to apply) Acrylic paint, with a sponge ended up the best most effective way for me. All that to say these would be super cute with an initial or monogram stenciled on top.
 I think this mirror is so neat and different, just needed to be cleaned up and brightened up.
 I purchased these pieces separate on different weekends, but figured since I had a lone chair and a desk with out a chair they should go together (I can be really smart sometimes).  This is currently my sewing table in the man cave. (Scott now refers to it as the Wo-man cave)
 Can you tell I like adding color to things? I (with help of Scott cutting the wood into the oval shape I needed) gave the footstool a padded top, covered with the fuzzy zebra fabric. I wanted to bring a pattern to the chair and I thought a pillow would be best way and then matching the footstool finalized the little rocking chair.
Sister is my inspiration for this piece, she has a beach theme at her place.  I ended up sanding this table down around the edges to give it a worn look.
Best for last (seriously!) This is proof how much my husband loves me.  I text him a picture of these chairs and said honey can I please get these for OUR house, they are bright orange (my favorite color) and velour and I couldn't just leave them there.  He said YES! So I painted the legs white and added the "Grease" pillows. We have one on either side of our fire place and they are perfect!

I've taken a break from garage sales for June, it's been a busy month and I have to sell some of this stuff to make room for new things!  I've done mostly furniture, but I have come across a few things I couldn't pass up, for example: one pair of little boys Rock & Republic Jeans and one pair of Seven jeans, I paid $5 a pair and resold each on ebay for $35.  I don't plan on making a living this way, but it is a fun hobby!
P.S. if you want to try this I suggest the app Garage Sale Rover, I didn't discover this until after a few weekends of checking craigslist, maping out the ones I wanted to go to on map quest, & printing out the sheet, all of which took a good hour or so.