before and after Projects

As part of our Styled by You $500 Giveaway with Ikea, Angela and I have been rethinking and restyling some IKEA products, thinking beyond the flatpack. Today, I'm sharing my first project, which was made from the SKURAR Hanging Planter. ($5).

I love this product's design and lacy detailing and have long admired the easy switcheroo that turns this planter into a hanging lamp. At least, it seemed easy when I read about it. But would this project prove to be harder than it looked?

Keep reading to see how my project with the SKURAR Hanging Planter turned out.

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member h2urHome.

I bought this chair a few months ago and it sat in my garage waiting for a makeover, it looked pretty sad but I loved the frame!

After a lot of spray paint, new padding, and some new fabric for the old chair she's looking pretty great now!
If you'd like to see more of the chair makeover or some of my other furniture makeovers, please feel free to stop over to House to Your Home.

Have you finished any decorating projects lately? Be sure to post your photos in the Su Casa group!

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member h2urHome.

Last year I showed off my foyer to CasaSugar. In case you forgot here's what it looked like. I liked how it turned out but I've been obsessed with black doors and trim for awhile. Well, painting all the doors and trim in my house would be a major project — I thought perhaps I'd just paint my front door in the foyer.

This is how it turned out!

I really liked how it turned out, the drapery and rug really seem to pop a bit more! If you'd like to see how I added some winter items to the space, please feel free to stop by House To Your Home!

Have you done any decorating lately? Be sure to post your photos in the Su Casa group!

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member Nolakat from the Su Casa group:

A $40 Craigslist chair that had been covered in a mint green polyester damask was a mess.
High gloss paint + funky suede fabric = a fabulous frenchy star for a tween girl's bedroom!

Read more about the chair and its transformation here.

Happy DIYing!

Have you completed any DIY projects lately? Be sure to share your photos with the Su Casa group!

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member CourtneyOutLoud from the Su Casa group:

I love chairs. I love textiles and fabrics. What I didn't love was the chair sitting in my guest room.

However, when I stumbled upon this cane chair at a resale shop for $28, I found a solution to my "problem."

It needed to be cleaned and restained but it had potential. The stars lined up when I found a rug from Uzbekistan at Anthropologie — it was colorful, vibrant and had the perfect pattern I wanted for the room. It also helped that it was large enough to provide fabric for the whole chair for less than $50. Two weeks later thanks to my savvy bartering and some elbow grease, I brought home this to replace the original chair in the guest room. Keep reading to see how the chair looked after it was reupholstered!

Here's a post from OnSugar blog House of Anaïs:

When we bought the house of Anaïs, it really was because of the lovely garden and the image we had of what the house could become — despite the purple-painted ceilings, silver Chinese writings on the wall, mint-green and peach toilets, all the excessive color contrasts and mismatches, and the dampish smell in the house. But it certainly took us some time to get to the lovely end result!

The upstairs loft area had two tiny bedrooms (one with a sink) and this mint-green toilet corner. We opened the space up into one spacious room, insulated it well, and added a new bathroom with a walk-in shower. I don't normally go for carpets since we have asthma in the family, but here I chose natural seagrass covering for the whole bedroom.

Read more to see the beautifully renovated loft!