I am loving this yellow side table before and after, found on Design Sponge.
This is the before shot:

This is the after shot:

Read up on the project here:
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/09/before-after-yellow-love.html

I have set myself my first little furniture sanding/restoring project of sanding down the pair of wood framed chairs we bought a few months ago and re-upholstering them.  We got them for $20 each down at the local second-hand furniture store.  This is what they look like:

The wood frame consists of the legs and the arm rests which [...]

Last weekend we started to remove the horrible wallpaper from our walls. It’s a really tough physical job. I kind of thought that it would be that we would just put the steamer on the wall, run it down the panel of wallpaper and the paper would peel off in one big sheet. To my [...]

Today after the rain went away, Tim and I were walking around the garden discussing the circular garden beds at the front of the house. We have some plans to clear the beds and add brand new soil, make each bed exactly the same size and finish it with a nice brick border.  As we were talking, [...]

I got up way too early with the plan of getting out to the Sorrell market bright and early but after I had breakfast it started raining, so that put an end to my plan for the morning.  So now that I have nothing really planned (although I can go and do some gardening but my [...]

The daffodils that I mentioned earlier are now in full bloom.

I really do like the daffs but I can’t understand why the previous owners just scattered the bulbs randomly in the garden beds. It’s kind of annoying because we have to clear the beds to get rid of the weeds and grasses which have overtaken [...]

About a month ago, we planted two different types of baby trees around our back fenceline. The trees are Tasmanian blue gums (the compact variety – up to 8 metres tall) and variegated pottosporums (up to 9 metres tall). We chose these two trees because they’re very quick growing and they make good screen breaks. We have [...]