$30 for living room and kitchen makeover/facelift

So I have been away for a while.
Ruby had a surgery and then got sick and we spent about 3 weeks in and out of the hospital. I will write about the whole thing later on.
I finally got around to take pictures of the mini makeovers I did on our house.
$7 makeover in the living room and $23 dollars for the kitchen.

So our living room was a plain Jane, rental living room. The only thing going for it was the built in bookcase, everything else...well, bland. So I spent $7 in Home Depot in the OOPS! paint area. The guy in that area already knows me. I bought this paint that really doesn't have a name. It looked great, it's kinda like hot chocolate made with milk color. I love it. That was all the money I spent, because somebody has left half of gallon of red paint there, it was offered for free and as a DIY hoarder, of course I had to get it. For what I had no idea. I didn't have a plan what to do with the living room, only thing I had was a desire to change it cozier. To be fair, I did use some craft paint, a can of white spray paint I had in hand already. Plus other misc supplies, like paper, glue and so on.
P.S! I have rollers and trays for painting cause I always wash them after using.
So here are the before pictures.

 And after $7 and few nights it looks like this.

Remember her, my $1 yard sale purchase.

My laptop is in there, so the Babynator could not get to it. 

 

This part was in the desk, that now serves another purpose. (Laptop would not fit in the desk opened if this part was in)

Painted the picture frames red with the free red paint I  got, used the same paint for the desk.
Used carbon paper to trace the letters on the wall, then painted the inside with metallic white paint.
There are still few pictures that are waiting to go up...

My old table sits there now to hold my purse and diaperbag when I'm lazy and don't feel like putting it up.

Covered the lampshade with an old book I had, Used Elmer's glue and water to "Mod Podge" it. The metal "Candy Jar" was some ugly ugly Christmas container that got a coat of spray paint and some leftover red paint.
The awesome thing, kiddos cannot open it so they need to ask for candy every time they want some.

Because Mister Hubby owns like gazillion hats and they are always all over the house, I decided to use them as work of art and display them.

I moved our couches to make a playarea for Ruby, it's next to my computer desk so I could work while she plays and also it contains her toys in one area. Plus, she love to look out of the window.

These pictures were all metal, but to make them look warmer and not to over do it with red I painted them white and added the red for the lettering there... Got my cuties near me!

Still waiting to find a great deal on a sectional I want. Maybe soon I'll have it. Usually our coffee table is empty because Ruby, little kleptomaniac steals everything from the surfaces she can reach.


It's not perfect and there is still work to be done (put up curtains, re upholster my blue chair, find/build new TV stand, Add electric fake fireplace, buy a new TV) but for $7 I spent, it's ok!

Here are few pictures of my less than $25 kitchen makeover.
Here is the before.

Few nights (after Ruby went to bed and here it is)

$13 back splash

Old cork board got a facelift.

New kitchen towel holding thingy. I have no idea what it's called. We made it from 3 pieces of fence pickets we had in the garage. It looks crooked on this picture, it is straight.

Please excuse the smudge on the cabinet door, I have no idea what is it, and it's not there anymore. Ghost smudge.
Used stain and Poly mix, $7.77 from HomeDepot

Better view, sorry about the missing microwave piece, I was washing it and forgot to put it up.
Added temporary curtains to the windows. Still missing the baskets I want to have in the top open cabinets. I am too short to use them anyway so it's a good way to hide junk I don't need all the time.

Painted a towel rod white and put the spices there in a row. Love that idea!

Well, considering the amount of money I spent on this project I am pretty happy about it too.