Carolyn Braden's Southern Living Table Makeover

I saw this table makeover in Southern Living magazine and decided to try it. I love this pink-coral color. I used Valspar paint from Lowe's. I sanded and primered it prior to painting.














Carolyn J. Braden
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Upstairs porch 5

Upstairs porch 4

Upstairs porch 3

Upstairs porch 2

Carolyn and Tommy Braden: Cheap Renovations to Make a Porch Look Fabulous!

Southern Living magazine just did a spread all about Americans and their porches in the summer.  It had me thinking......we have two wonderful porches on the back of our home.  One is a "sleeping porch" that is off of one of the bedrooms on the second floor of our home and the other one is off the kitchen on the first floor of our home.  I thought if we have these two wonderful porches, we should utilize them! 

As it turns out, it is a very inexpensive makeover.  By doing it ourselves, we have been saving a lot of money. We started on the upstairs porch first.  This porch is going to be in a "Key West" color theme.  We have screened it in, put outdoor carpeting down, purchased two adirondack chairs in light blue and lime green, repainted our vintage metal glider couch in white and lime green, and repainted a vintage small metal table.  We have to put some finishing touches on it tonight and it will be wonderful! 

In the next couple of weeks, we are going to put outdoor carpeting on the downstairs porch and start making it look great too!  I'm going to put a reed blind on the outside railing side of the porch with two long curtains on either side of the blind.  Then the other side of the railing will have a reed fence attached to it.  This porch will be done in neutral, tropical colors.

Pictures will come following their completion! 

Carolyn Braden says "Our house is moving along!"

We now have both stained glass sidelights put in our doorway to the foyer of our home.
Our walk in closet is so Sex in the City! I feel like Carrie whenever I open the door! We converted a small bedroom into a large closet. It is truly a dream closet! My husband and I love fashion so much, therefore we have a lot of clothes. Finally our clothes are hanging up and are not wedged in our previously small closets getting wrinkled up. Everything is out where I can see it. I had a standing glass and wood cabinet that I am using to display my jewelry. I used black velvet jewelry display bars to display everything so I can see it.



Next is mudding, sanding, and painting the foyer walls, then we will be working on getting our kitchen up and going. Right now, we have our kitchen in a second floor room (the house was an attempted duplex at one point) that doubles as a laundry room. It will just be a laundry room when the kitchen on the first floor is complete. :)

We are getting many ideas for our home using This Old House Magazine.

My husband loves the magazine and the show. He's learned how to do so much on his own that he should be the next host of TOH!
I also love looking at Southern Living magazine for some good ol' south traditional home decor ideas.