DIY Painted Bottles

I was recently talking to a friend about how time consuming and costly it is to furnish a house! The sad thing is that Tyler and I don't even live in a house - we have a 783 square foot, one bedroom apartment. 

I always thought that when we would move into our "home" it would be fully furnished. Boy, was I wrong! We've been in our pad for 6 months and we still need a coffee table, curtains in our bedroom, a side table for the couch and a credenza for the TV. Thinking back to how naive I was, I now cannot even imagine decorating a 1,500 square foot home. OMG! 

Our place is coming along well, but we have to compromise in some aspects. Example: we bought the cutest bar stools recently. Having set us back $300, we are now DIY'ing other stuff cause we cannot fork out that kinda money for anything else right now. Ha! But I don't mind the DIY :) 

I saw painted glass bottles on Pinterest and thought this was a lovely idea for our kitchen cabinets. The cabinets don't touch the ceiling, and I'd love to add some color to the kitchen, so we chose 5 colors that best matched our color scheme, and we went for it!

I must say that if you are thinking of doing this, I would recommend doing it OUTSIDE and over an old towel that you don't mind getting paint on. Also, our glass bottles (below) are antique. I would recommend new bottles. Our bottles, although beautiful, had rust inside some that even paint couldn't cover up!

What you'll need:

Paint

Glass Bottles

A Towel

Flowers

We evenly laid out our bottles and chose which color would go in what bottle.

All you do is rotate the paint inside the glass bottles. It's that easy!

Ta- da!

If your apartment or kitchen has low ceilings, you'd be crazy not to do this. It makes such a big impression (and it makes our ceilings look much taller!)

DISCLAIMER: DIY funded by Tyler Weir. Thank you, sweetest boy, for curing boredom by funding all of my DIY's. You're the greatest.

Decorating On A Budget

One way to keep your cost low when decorating is by breathing life into old things. This cupboard, for example, was my mothers when she was a newlywed, and she so graciously passed it down to me (y'all know my love for antiques!) Seeing that I'm a more colorful person, I decided to paint green stripes on the walls of the hutch. After all, paint is only temporary! 

Ps. I'm going through a green phase right now. Do you do that? You're pulled towards a certain color for a period of time? Heellllppppp!!

Back to decorating - the hutch turned out great! Tyler and I went to Lowe's and got a sample of paint from Pantone called Macaw Green. It's a lovely color - not too bright, not too dark. Just right! The sample size was enough, too.

Do you have any pieces around your home that you could spruce up? Buy some painters tape, your favorite color paint (in my case - GREEN!!) and slap on some paint. I guarantee you'll see your old piece of furniture in a new way.

My New Hobby: Paint By Number

Before Tyler began working, he used to own a renovation business. With that business came a lot of free time together. He would work in the morning, and there was always a slight chance I got to see him in the afternoon.

Now that he is working from 9-5 (not to mention he likes to get in a bit more work after hours) I'm extremely bored.

I already hear your questions - what about my business? My business is back in Jackson where my business partner manages the clients, and I do everything that requires being behind a computer (graphics, editing, banners). I'm technically a fast, don't break my attention span, get it done type worker. Hence = I have more time on my hands than most.

I spend roughly 10 hours a day by myself, and 4 hours a day with my groom. And I don't like it.

So, I was talking to my mother on the phone mentioning how bored I am...and she tells me that I should try a new hobby, like knitting. Seeing as though I have never knitted and couldn't sew a button back on to save my life, I laughed and quickly put that idea on the back burner.

Cut to last week:

It's my usual morning - I wake up, put a K-cup in the Keurig and wait for my coffee to brew. I post my daily blog post and see what others are doing. Blogger to me is like Pinterest - you click on something that takes you to something else, that takes you to something else, that takes you to something else. Then, you look back at where you began and wonder how in the world you got to where you are. That's me.

Luckily, I found a blog (do I remember the name? No.) and the woman mentions how her hobby is Paint by Number. My initial thought: those still exist?

And then I did some googling.

Yes, they still exist. I realized I liked to paint, especially when someone tells me how. So I bought a kit, it arrived at my door a week later, and I'm painting up a storm.

It's so fun! For those of you that want a hobby but don't know what to do, it doesn't get easier than a sheet telling you where to put what color. I'm hooked! It's challenging enough because the spaces to paint are extremely tiny and weirdly shaped, but it's fun enough that you are guaranteed a pretty painting!

Heirloom Roses

I'll be keeping you guys updated on the process. I have a feeling it's going to take me a while. Ha!

What are your hobbies? Any recommendations?