Slate backsplash with white cabinets!

BEFORE BACKSPLASH AND COUNTERS

We have been meaning to do this project for a little while, but sometimes we get project exhausted.  So one day while I was at Lowe's they were calling my name from the shelf! I picked up a few boxes and some premixed thinset for walls and went on my merry way! I had those done within the first 30 minutes of arriving back home and was ready for more.  We designed our area that will be above the sink and did all the pieces I could do without having to use the dreaded saw! I always have visions of cutting off my fingers. Then I had to wait.  OF course November is hunting season and September and December so only after dark and when we weren't completely exhausted could this get done.  It finally was completed last night (in between church and bass pro shop, dinner, working out and hanging with our kids) and ready for grout, which I did this morning!!! :)

We wanted to do a rustic backsplash since the cabinets were white (we scored them off craigslist and it was too good of a deal to pass up!! We had enough to do a basement kitchen, a work bench for hubby in his hunting room and hang a gorgeous glass one in the laundry TALK ABOUT SCORING BIG!!) But with my husband being an outdoorsman we wanted to keep with a more rustic theme for the basement! So slate seemed like a good option!



DURING, poor husband!

                                                                Before grout, but tile is set!

                                                  Ta DA!!!!!!

                                          It looks even better and more colorful in person!!
                                                            

Dresser redo with mosiac tiles :)

It's been awhile.  But here is what I have been working on this week.  My Mom lived with us for a little while after selling her house.  When she moved she left us this bedroom set.  In my head I wanted to redo it for my son.  Then when I started putting away his summer clothes I realized there was an empty drawer in his one dresser and he didn't need this much storage for clothes, afterall he is a boy.  So I thought then I would redo them just for the guest room to look brighter.  As I painted other ideas started popping into my head.  I have to say I think they turned out well!

Here is the before picture, I FINALLY remembered to take one, at least of the one dresser!

I sanded them all down to rough them up and then coated them in primer.  Then I painted them.  I found some nice put cheap knobs at Home Depot, since these pieces required so many knobs!! :-O Then when they were done I thought of these little tiles I paid $1 a sheet for on clearance at lowes about a year ago.  I have been itching to use it on something, I had a sheet and a half which wasn't quite enough for most projects.  Then it hit me as I was painting these dresser.  I was excited to use it and gives the dress a pop that I love.  Plus it feels kind of beachy to me.  I am very happy with the way they turned out!!!