My favorite summer home improvement projects

I was feeling like I didn't get that much done this summer, 

because I never got my rose trellis done...

but when looking through my picture files, 

I surprised myself with the projects I did complete. 

My side porch came together when I grabbed

 these two rockers out of the neighbors trash

 (I'm never too proud) and painted them black.

 I paired them up with a black umbrella 

and hot pink toile pillows and filled my urn 

with pink geraniums~what a lift this space is now.

My favorite project was lining the bookcase shelves in this powder blue chintz.

I think I will be stapling it to the back and adding a trim to finish off the edges~

this is a look I am completely in love with!

I never shared this small makeover on an old victorian bench I found during the summer.

Here it sat in the back of an antique shop in New Hampshire.

 It was dark wood and totally UGH~

but I knew it would look great at my bathroom vanity table

after a white paint job and a matalesse cover.

Worked out nicely~

 Making new cornices out of old metal valances I found was pretty satisfying too. 

They certainly are different than anything else I have ever had for treatments.

I have been plugging away in our little family room making small changes as they come to me.

Originally I had planned on wallpapering this room entirely in the wood plank paper, and I still might do that. I like how the tennis raquets and other things look when they are "nailed" into the wood.  This room is kind of evolving as a summer camp theme~its cheerful and vintage sporty.

The Company C rug started the whole makeover 

and the coffee table was next getting a green paint job. 

This upstairs hallway got a striped and stenciled paint job this summer~

I was dying to use some pale purple in the house.

There were a few chandys I made over too~including this Belgian inspired number. As soon as it was madeover it sold in my Etsy shop.

I did this one too, giving it a white paint job and more crystals. 

Working on chandeliers is very fun,

and I can imagine being a chandelier designer if I had more time on my hands.

The third chandy I redid is hanging up over my front door now. 

I got my climbing rosebush in the ground, 

but have not finished the climbing structure yet. 

That is a fall project now I guess.

 I won't be too hard on myself because

 I really did get a lot of things done this summer!