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90th PoPP Spotlight!

September 10, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking Leave a Comment

Happy Weekend!

Let’s check out this week’s SPOTLIGHT paint projects:

This drama filled dresser turned out beautiful.

Great pallet signs.

Breakfast room goes gray.

What a great Pottery Barn knock-off sign.

Gorgeous milk paint dresser.

Cream’ified vanity.

And the most clicked paint project this week…

this lovely lamp makeover.

If you missed any of the other projects this week you can check them out here.

If you were featured in the Spotlight you can grab your button here.

Tomorrow night I’ve got another Countdown to Autumn goodie for the party & Monday starts a week of anniversary giveaways and flashbacks.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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82nd PoPP Spotlight…

July 23, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 4 Comments

Happy Weekend!

Let’s check out this week’s amazing Spotlighted Paint Projects…

A great kitchen cabinet makeover.

This pink kitchen is too cute!

A pretty painted and glazed desk.

I love all the details to this door.

And the most viewed paint project this week…

This gorgeous kitchen that use to be yellow… go check out the before and more gorgeous afters.

You can check out the rest of this week’s paint projects here.

And for those who were in the spotlight, you can grab a featured button in the button menu bar tab up top.

Hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!

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75th Power of Paint Party… Rug Painting

May 31, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 7 Comments

Last week of school for the kiddos… wahoo! This is where I will be spending a lot of time this summer…

watching the kiddos play out front. See that cute rug. It’s a drop cloth that I painted!

Here’s the supplies I used:

4×6 drop cloth

DecoArt’s Patio Paint in Apple Green, Blue Jay and Wrought Iron Black

painter’s tape

brush

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You can see all the details over at the diy club…

So what have you been painting?

Power of Paint Party Rules:

#1… This is a PAINT party… so pretty please, link-up only paint related projects. I HATE deleting!

#2… Please put my nifty POPP button (you can find it up in my menu bar’s BUTTONS) in your blog post or a link back to this party somewhere on your blog… that way others from your blog can check out all the paint projects too.

#3… Share the Love… visit the other paint pals.

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67th PoPP Spotlight!

April 9, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 5 Comments

Happy Weekend!!!

Let’s check out this week’s Spotlighted Paint Projects:

Brilliant idea – Virginia Beach Housewife’s DIY patio table.

Beyond the Screen Door shared silver molding… fun!

Fresh paint, beadboard and molding (things I adore) at Thrifty Decorating.

Love of Family & Home repurposed some boxes to create these cuties.

Love the espresso top with the creamy yellow base on this table at Sincerely Ashleigh and Sarah.

Little Miss Penny Wenny’s silver chevron chair is gorgeous!

If you missed the rest of this week’s wonderful paint projects you can check them out HERE.

If your project was featured in the Spotlight you can grab your featured button HERE.

Have a wonderful weekend…

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Patio Furniture ready for Spring…

April 6, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 3 Comments

As one of the DIY Club resident bloggers I got to pick out some of Krylon’s paint to try.

My patio chairs were in desperate need of a makeover! Thanks to Krylon’s Outdoor Spaces Hammered Finish I have a beautiful new patio set.

Come by for a visit and see the before and after…

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Shells all a shimmered…

March 11, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 4 Comments

I’m over at The DIYClub today…

sharing some of the things I truly love… paint and beachy things.

{Supplies}

Shells (cleaned)

Paint Brush

DecoArt’s Dazzling Metallics in Shimmering Silver

Come on over and see how these beach collected shells got a little shimmer!

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Pergola Part II

June 24, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 38 Comments

One of our biggest DIY Summer prep projects has been finishing our pergola. We’re almost there!

Pergola Part II

If you missed my Part I post you can read it HERE.

We’ve worked another 3 days on the pergola since the last post.

Day 3… we finished cementing the other 4 posts and put the support rafters on the first pergola.

Day 4… we put support rafters on pergola 2 and added additional rafters on both pergolas.

Day 5… SHADE ~ we decided to use drop cloth canvas to make a cover for the pergolas. We get HOT here in the summer… most of July & August we’re hovering around 100 degrees. We were thrilled to discover that they made drop cloths large enough. The one we used was 12×15 feet. In the future we may take the cover off and add cross beams.

I am LOVIN’ this transform to our backyard + I’m lovin’ the shade on our patio and the shade to our home.

Each pergola is 12×12 feet, so we kept those extra 3 feet on the drop cloth so we could have a nice little overhang. This side of the house faces the west… so another bonus to keep the heat out of the house.

We couldn’t have done this project without my dad & mom. My dad designed the pergola and helped us build them & my mom was sewer extraordinaire on the drop cloths. She sewed around the slits we made to slide the cloth over the posts and the pocket on the overhang where we inserted a 2×2 to help weigh it down.

So THANK YOU Mom & Dad!

Between the pergolas we hung a shade cloth that is 10×10 feet.

We still need to replace the pavers we pulled out, but this project is almost done…

and I’m positively GIDDY!!!

Sharing my pergola here:

Strut Your Stuff @ Somewhat Simple, Transformation Thursdays @ The Shabby Chic Cottage, I’m Lovin’ It @ TidyMom, Frugalicious Friday @ Finding Fabulous, Saturday Nite Special @ Funky Junk, Met Monday @ BNOTP, It’s So Very Creative @ It’s So Very Cheri, Just Something I Whipped Up @ The Girl Creative, The DIY Showoff

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3rd Countdown to Summer ~ Shell Pots

June 13, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 14 Comments

You know I adore shells. There is something so relaxing about collecting shells at the beach.

This last week we got to the beach once. It was cloudy and cool, so the kiddos played in the sand more than the water… so I got more shells!

I took some terra-cotta pots that I had in the garage, my newly collected shells and my trusty glue gun.

I started with the large shells and then filled in the spaces with the smaller shells.

I love the look of a shell trim.

I’m working on summer’izing my mantle.

I put my larger pot out front on our paver patio.

Now I just need a cute plant for it.

So how are you getting ready for summer?

Inspire Us!

(Submissions start June 13, 2010, 7:00 pm)

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For the Love of… Pergolas

June 3, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 16 Comments

Don’t you just love a beautiful outdoor room?

There is just something that happens to a patio

when it’s covered with a pergola… instant room!

Wouldn’t this be a lovely place for dinner?

Love the trees entwined….

A rustic space…

Just gorgeous at night… love the drapes and chandelier

White column make this a classic beauty!

So here is where we are…ok, we’ve gotten a little further than this…

Last Saturday, Hubby and Dad dug eight 30” holes (not a fun job).

On Monday we start to put in the posts. Making sure they were level and spaced properly took awhile.

We got 6 posts in and 4 filled with concrete.

Only the dark post are staying. The others we used as supports to keep everything in place as the concrete dried.

The posts are 10 feet apart. The pergola will be 12×12 feet in total size (the top beams with be 12 feet). We will have a pergola on the left side and on the right side. Between the 2 pergolas we are hanging a square sail shade.

We’re “hoping” to have it finished by Father’s Day!

Linking up here:

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Our New Front Yard Patio…

April 23, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 28 Comments

I thought I’d show you all some more of what we’ve been working on outside. If you missed my backyard posts you can read about them HERE and HERE.

First I should show you guys what our front yard looked like when we first bought our home.

A big dead mess! Except for those darn weeks that can grow ANYWHERE!

We’ve done a LOT of work over the last couple years… pulling weeds… planting plants and trees…

raking out all the dead sod… laying new sod… exhausting!

We decided we wanted to have a patio area out front, since our front yard is decent size and our kiddos are always out front playing. We figured it would be a nice adult area to sit and watch the munchkins play.

We originally were just going to lay down some pavers, but my mom came up with the idea of putting a small pillar area in front to frame the space.

So my ultra-talented brother with the help of my dad and hubby built this pillar-wrought-iron mini wall.

LOVE it! It instantly added a focal point to our front yard… which in having to landscape from nothing, I’ve discovered how important that is. You can have beautiful flowers, pavers, trees, etc… but having a focal point really does make everything look so much more amazing.

The guys knocked this out in just over a day… A-MAZING!

Next step was laying the pavers behind the pillars. These are 12×12 inch pavers that Lowes, Home Depot and even Wal-Mart carry… we found them used on Craigslist.