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Hi, I’m Serena! My mission with this blog is to inspire you to decorate, improve, and maintain your home using paint, power tools, and thrift stores. When I bought my old 1973 four years ago, we had no furniture and no skills when it came to taking care of our house. I walked around for weeks feeling uneasy and overwhelmed about trying to turn this old house into a cozy, pretty home that my family could be proud of. Over the years, I have taught myself how to paint, strip, and refinish thrift store furniture, as well as how to use power tools and how to remove toilets, put up crown molding, and other home improvement projects. As I learn, you learn. My goal is for us to transform our home together while flexing our creative muscle. (Find out more about this blog).

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Beautiful Dresser Makeover With Shabby Paints from Thrift Diving Blog_4700

Most Popular Projects!

Dressers and Side Tables

Desks and Shelves

Room Makeovers

Chairs

Craft Projects

Tables

Lighting

My Most Popular Articles

Home Improvement Projects

For The Kids

My Favorite Things!

Most Popular Projects!

Right here you’ll find my most recent DIY projects! Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel where you can find the video tutorials that go with each project!

BEFORE: $10 French Provincial Makeover
BEFORE: DIY Playhouse Makeover

BEFORE: How to Build a DIY Fire Pit
BEFORE: Bar Cart Makeover

BEFORE: Mid-Century Modern Dresser Makeover
Natural Wood Table Makeover


Dressers and Side Tables

BEFORE: Thrifted China Cabinet
BEFORE: Ugly French Provincial Dresser Makeover

Mid-Century Modern Dresser Makeover
BEFORE: I Saved This Ugly Dresser!

I Repurposed a Toddler Bed Into a Potting Bench!
AFTER: Mid-Century Modern Dresser

AFTER: MId-Century Modern Dresser For Son
AFTER: Ombre Mod Dresser

Turn a Jewelry Box into an Organizer for Craft Materials!
$50 Thrifted Buffet Makeover!

Glue Fabric to Wood Bedside Tables
AFTER: 3-Toned White Washed Dresser

AFTER: Thrifted Upholstered Headboard
BEFORE: Vintage Sewing Machine and Cabinet Gets a Makeover!

Typically I love white bedroom furniture. It just looks so fresh! But these projects below are definitely not white! Ombre is always a fresh idea, too. Why not try lining some fabric to the front of your nightstands, like I did below? Upholstered headboards are always a great design feature!

Desk & Shelves

Natural Wood Drafting Table Makeover
1980’s Desk Gets a Makeover!

Salmon Vintage Vanity
Turn a Changing Table Into a Big Kid Desk

Bookcase Hack with Added Built-in Storage on Top!
French Provincial Desk Makeover

A Mod Podged Book Shelf
Vintage Drafting Table

Leather-Top Chalk Paint Desk
DIY Desk Makeover from the Thrift Store

A $5.00 Kid’s Desk Transformed
DIY Card Catalog

An Ombre “Dumpster” Desk
Cheerful Bookcase Makeover

A Green & Gold Chalkboard Desk

Room Makeovers

I have to admit that I always have trouble finishing a room in my house. I started my 30-Day Room Makeover series where my readers and I commit to transforming a room in our house in 30 days. It’s hard! But with a deadline and a group of people working on their rooms at the same time, you’d be surprised how much you can get done! We usually do outdoor makeovers in the spring, a “June Room” makeover in the month of June, and a Naughty or Nice November room makeover for the holidays! Considering signing up to join us for the next 30-day room makeover challenge!

BEFORE: Formal Living Room
My Pretty Soft Pink Laundry Room Makeover!

Pretty Master Bathroom Makeover
Basement Office Makeover

Boy’s Bedroom Makeover
Master Bedroom Makeover

Serena's Kids Bathroom Makeover
Ultimate Kids’ Bathroom Makeover – Navigation Themed
My Reading Room In-Progress

An Outdoor Patio Makeover
My (Previous) Master Bathroom Makeover

My Thrifted Craft Room!
Dining Room Makeover (In-Progress)

1970’s Kitchen Goes Bye-Bye

Chairs

Reupholstering a chair is intimidating. Especially if you’ve never done it before! Check out this video I did (7 Tips for Easy Chair Makeovers) to help get you started:

BEFORE: Chromcraft Mid Century Modern Chair Makeover
BEFORE: Reupholstering a $60 Wingback Chair

AFTER: Mid-Century Modern Chair Makeover

AFTER: Vintage chair makeover!
BEFORE: $25 estate sale bench makeover.

BEFORE: Outdated Orange Bench Gets a Makeover
Before & After: How to Strip a Chair


Craft Projects

Every now and then I like to roll up m sleeves and get a lil’ crafty. My most popular craft is How to Make a Gift Box From Scrapbook Paper! You can watch the video HERE.

DIY Window Privacy Screens
Turn a Knife Block into a DIY Crayon Holder

Repurposed Leather Belts
How to Make DIY Picture Frames With No Power Tools

Tablet Holder For Your Wall
How to Make a Gift Box With Scrapbook Paper

DIY Wood Backpack
Make a DIY Journal Notebook With Scrapbook Paper

DIY Tablet Holder for the Car
How to Make a Drawer Organizer From Scrapbook Paper

Feeling Unbalanced? Make a Wheel of Life
The Cutest DIY Car Emergency Kit

Make Rustic Wall Art From Pallets
Make a “Family Love Jar”

DIY Foot Scraper for Soft Feet
Thrifted Bucket Turned Gift Basket With Glued Fabric

DIY Scrubs in Pretty Jars
How to Make a Craft Gift Basket

Painted Shower Curtain Hooks
Turn a Wine Box Into Knitting Kit

Tables

Tables are my favorite kind of project! You can paint them, strip the top, decoupage paper, add custom tiles to table tops…so many options! See some of my table projects below!

Custom Tiled Table Top
Natural Wood Table Makeover

I Repurposed a Crib Into a Patio Table
Eat-in Kitchen Table Makeover

Dining Room Makeover (In-Progress)
My $5.00 Thrifted Coffee Table Makeover

Thrifted End Table Makeover
Hand-Painted Table From Dumpster

Lighting

Who doesn’t love an awesome lamp?? They bring light into a room and help set the tone. Make your own DIY pendant lamp by following this video tutorial:

How to Glue Paper to a Lamp Shade
BEFORE: Walkway Lanterns Repurpsoed

A Spray Painted Lamp Shade
Paint an Old Ugly Pendant Light

A $10 Thrift Store Lamp Makeover
How to Make DIY Pendant Lamp

My Most Popular Articles

I don’t do just projects. I also write articles! There’s plenty here to enjoy! My favorites are: 10 Questions You MUST Ask Before Buying a House and 10 Comebacks to Rude Insults About Thrift Stores! 😉

10 Questions You MUST Ask Before Buying a House!
30 More Questions You MUST Ask Before You Buy a House

What To Do When You Can’t Find Anything Good at the Thrift Store
How to DIY When You Have NO Time and NO Energy!

Stop Thinking You Have an Ugly House!
5 Tips for a Cheap DIY Bathroom

5 Bad Decorating Mistakes to STOP
10 “Come Backs” to Rude Insults About Thrift Stores!

5 Best Digital Photography Sites & Tutorials
How to Shop Estate Sales

3 Things a Husband Should Never Say to a DIY Hoarder

Home Improvement Projects

Whether you want to paint a brick fireplace, put up crown molding, or remove or install a toilet, there are a lot of home improvement projects you can do yourself. Paying professionals to do these projects adds up! The more you can do yourself, the more mone you save. Check out these home improvement tutorials!

How to Paint an Old Brick Fireplace
How to Install Crown Molding

How to Fix Big Holes in Drywall
How to Remove a Toilet Yourself!

How to Install a Toilet Yourself

For the Kids

Doing projects for kids is so rewarding! It gives you an opportunity to be even bolder than you normally would with your own pieces of furniture.

A Nautical Play Sink

A Kid’s Play Kitchen Stove
Turn a Wooden Wine Box Into a Knitting Case

 My Favorite Things

Sometimes it’s a paint sprayer. Sometimes it’s a steam cleaner. But these things get the job done in half the time!

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My Favorite Paint Sprayer!
My Favorite DIY Clothes

My Favorite Jigsaw!
My Favorite Paint Brushes

My Favorite Wet Tile Saw
My Favorite Steam Cleaner!

My Favorite Lamp Kit
My Favorite Thing For Changing the Color of Door Pulls

Download: The Ultimate Materials Checklist
My Favorite Paint – Annie Sloan

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