Back door organisation.

I made a great entrance way but I don't always enter through the front and thought I should create a little
area at the back of the house for all my stuff when I get home.

I've already shared my new bench but this is the result of finishing off the can of spray paint and a little more thrifting:

 

I had this fantastic shaped pineapple bowl but the wood colour didn't quite work in my home. Some primer and 2 coats of spray paint later and I had the perfect key/loose items bowl.

A thrifted mirror. It was hidden in the back corner of a garage sale but with a little bit of TLC I removed the stickers covering the front and now I can make sure I look okay before heading out the door.

I also had an old crate which was a bit worse for wear. With some primer and 2 coats of spray paint again, it was ready and fits nicely under my little bench. I now have a little spot to hold my green bags for grocery shopping.

Total spent: $29 bench, 50c crate, $1 pineapple and $4 mirror = $34.50

Now I feel all organised and ready to head back to work with everything in my back area having a place.

Lisa x
P.s I'm linking up with Nifty thrifty Things,Flamingo Toes,Twigg Studios,C.R.A.F.T.,My 1929 Charmer,Brassy Apple

Light it up.

I seem to have been getting lucky lately with finding colourful lamps while thrifting. I've wanted a yellow lamp for ages and at a recent garage sale found this cute one for $1. I love the colour and in the spirit of creating a very cheerful and bright guest rooms, I also picked up this little blue lamp at a different garage sale for $1.

It's always good to find cute lamps on garage sales but there's also much enjoyment in updated a tired old object. I had this old cream lamp shade lying around.There's nothing wrong with it but it doesn't really suit our home and I thought it might look interesting in the guest room (going with a yellow theme) and then the blue lamp would look great in the second guest room*.

*Husband and I live in a country town of 15000 app 3 hours from the city so when friends and family come to visit they always stay the night and so we need a few guest rooms.

I  had read about spray painting lampshades and thought I'd give it a try

It's looking great though I'm trying to work out whether to spray the inside too. I still need to fix up the base to match but I'm pretty pleased with how to shade looks now. When it's all done I'll share some snaps of our ever evolving main guest room.

Do you think I should do a plain yellow base or striped white and yellow?

As usual I'm linking up my thrifting finds with her library adventures and Apron thrift girl.

Happy thrifting!

Lisa x