Kammy's Korner

When my husband gets a text that says "Does your wife want this dresser taking up precious space in our garage?" he knows he doesn't even have to ask me. That'd be like asking the one thousand po...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2024/04/making-curvy-straight-and-rubnbuff-rave.html

You've seen it all, I know! Well just when I think I've seen it all...  someone sends me something that makes me say "WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!" So this might not be one of those "blow you ...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2024/04/repurposed-vintage-stereo-speakers.html

It started with cleaning out all the kids clothes. This flannel went through both my boys and little girl. It's one of the perks of having boys first. The hand-me-downs, as long as they aren'...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2024/02/cute-easy-diy-heart-shirt.html

My mother dear is the best. She sees little dressers like this for a few dollars at a garage sale and she snags them for me, even though she has to bring it 500 miles to get to me! :) Maybe i...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2024/02/beachy-vibe-dresser.html

If you could describe this "before" in one word, what would it be? Kitschy perhaps? Once I started sanding the paint off, I actually felt some pangs of guilt! At one time, someone had used thei...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2024/01/tinting-green-paint-olive-antique.html

Is there anything more abundant on the curb than headboards?? Maybe it's just where I live. It's probably cheese boxes in Wisconsin. Not being one to waste anything, I pried off the wood ...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2024/01/charming-chalkboards-from-old-headboards.html

This has been the year for shelves in our house! In the last 12 months, we've added wall shelves to three different rooms and I keep wondering why I didn't do it sooner. I invite you to come ha...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2023/03/fill-hard-to-decorate-wall-space-with.html

Welcome to the stereo redo! This one took a little elbow grease.  Elbow grease? Sometimes phrases hit me weird when I type them out. I just googled "elbow grease" and found it was first pu...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2022/10/repurposed-antique-stereo-and-vintage.html

A whole new world opened up to me when I finally realized after about fifteen years in the kitchen that it wasn't a sin to BUY A PIE CRUST. Now I am a quiche making queen. Well, not really. M...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2022/04/delightful-dill-cream-cheese-quiche.html

A couple weeks ago I got the impulse to paint the light aqua blue walls in my formal living room black. I told my mom to calm down, it would be OKAY. I told my nieces that no, this did not me...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2022/01/painting-my-living-room-black-room.html

I have a barn packed with curbside and hand-me down furniture waiting to get new life. So when Doug from the PARMA ANTIQUE MALL (who has a large variety of Dixie Belle Mineral Paints and pr...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/12/dixie-belle-silk-paint-review-3.html

The best days are the days people decide enough is enough and the junk they've been storing has gotta go!  I love that when people around here get that bee in their bonnet, I usually get a m...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/10/green-trash-2-treasure.html

A pal of mine was in the local resale shop when he found this for $6, thinking it was destined to end up on the trash pile, he couldn't leave it be.  He called me, asking if I could work my ...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/06/trash-2-treasure-with-just-paint-and.html

My tween daughter had suddenly decided her adorable antique white vanity that used to be Grandma's just wasn't for her anymore. No amount of convincing arguments that it was the perfect piece...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/05/easy-tween-vanity-desk-built-from.html

This buffet was being used as a workbench in a boy's bedroom.  Which I think is AWESOME!  I will not say "what a shame" cuz shoot, he was creating and building and that's a GOOD THING.  Th...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/05/rescuing-glens-workbench-buffet.html

Because this was Rusty Wellman's dresser as a kid, that totally ups the value.  It even came with two pairs of his socks stuffed behind a drawer. Alexandria, don't buy him any more socks f...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/04/rustys-long-dresser-repurposed-into.html

Doesn't that just scream 80's?!  The fabric? Drawer pulls? Orange-hued wood? Just a sewing desk in general?? It makes my mind go back to the days of wandering around in fabric stores with my mo...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/03/totally-80s-sewing-cabinet-gets-makeover.html

How do you still get excited about redoing a piece of furniture when you've done hundreds over the last few years? This one is especially exciting to me because I've legit been wanting to ta...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/03/repurposed-dresser-to-cute-bench-seat.html

I got a new stencil!!  Not just any stencil, but the silhouette of my home state - Michigan! Sorry Iowa, you raised me well and I will always love you, but I've made the switch to Michigan g...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/03/the-mitten-state-customized-stencil-by.html

It was a good day.  A good, fun day in my twenty-one year old F150, ninety degrees and no air conditioning, checking out our town's annual clean-your-house-out-and-get-your-crap-picked-up-for-fr...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/02/curbside-sewing-desk-revamp.html

So I'm calling this "blonde" wood and I'm not sure if that's technically correct or not, but you've seen these blondish-greenish-tannish dressers before. If you google in "blond dresser" your...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/01/mid-century-makeover-blonde-dresser-set.html

Every time I pull in my driveway with another load of crap treasures, my neighbor shakes his head and reminds me how I told him I wasn't going to say "yes" to any more furniture until I got rid...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/01/just-say-no-or-not-buffet-before-after.html

I had already gotten a light blue tufted vintage sofa from Darin.  About a year ago.  It took some serious brute force to get it up over the banister and into the upstairs bedroom of our Ai...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2021/01/library-on-landing-makeover-vintage-sofa.html

If this were an all female audience,  I'd blog about the humorous morning I had getting a mammogram with the "new girl on the job".  But since I know there are some dudes out there.... I'll...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2020/12/repurposed-hutch-top-using-bed-posts.html

I've racked my brain and can't come up with where I got this end table from.  As in I have NO recollection of acquiring this piece.  I can't imagine I paid a dime for it... so it must have ...

https://www.kammyskorner.com/2020/09/fugly-to-fabulous-plus-stenciled-drawer.html