new business venture : twice baked

twice baked

is all about reusing, recycling and making handmade things out of previously treasured pieces from art to furniture, pillows + accessories anything to add style to your home, your life or simply add a splash of colour somewhere........you can view some of what we have on offer here

anyone who has been following ledamae for a while know's how much i enjoy doing diys and we've been doing it for ourselves see here buffet / trays / shelves / for sometime.....so it's been a natural progession doing things up and have been asked by numeours friends for help/advise so thought lets do some more things and sell them.....below is a set of two drawers we have done up and sold....

and i have to mention my greg is a very handy man to have, he always does an amazing job and does like things a wee bit more perfect than me {i do like imperfect art}.......

so these have been sold and left yesterday see below

queen anne sidetables one was white the other was white with blue underneath.....{loads of sanding}

we did them a satin black {so beautiful} would love to know your thoughts...........

what do you think?????

head over to twice baked and have a noisey and if you like {LIKE} hehehe

i'll do another post through the week to show you what else we have over at twice baked

have a great tuesday evening and thanks for stopping by lisa xx

diy buffet

i have been searching for a buffet to use as a tv unit for quite sometime, and all the ones i loved and watched would all go for about $580 or higher, my budget was $200 i thought if i was going to spend around $600 then i may as well go brand new.........just over a week ago i found this buy now for $150 it didn't look solid timber and for that price no it was only veneer but it was the shape i wanted and i loved the mustard glass {of course} so we thought lets paint it, it took us 4 days all up maybe 2hrs.......this isn't a good photo i took it from my ebay account {forgot to take some before shots}

so we painted it black {shock i know as i love everything white, but when you have big black speakers that are a wee bit of an isore but they are hubbs the options are go black} and i love it, the shelves we wrapped in left over wallpaper

the two end drawers are covered in wallpaper also but the middle one i thought i'd do it a little different and used some left over flocked paper

this photo below is the ikea cabinet we had been using for the past 5 years, which will be going in zeke's room..........don't the speakers look a wee bit funny????

from this

to this..............the finished result I LOVE IT and all up it cost me $200 including paint, and with loads of storage for remotes {don't like them lying around} dvd's, cd's.........what do you think?????