Sweet Magnolia Design: Before and After

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Before & After: Chevron Rug

Here is another DIY addition to our booth for Wedding Day Hooray. We stumbled upon this great tutorial by Hayley Anderson on how to make your own chevron rug for only $70, but we actually only spent $55! The rug is from IKEA for $40 and a half a gallon of paint was from Lowes for $12.

We had to channel our school days of math and perfectly measure out each stripe, each angle and each width. It took some time but it was all worth it!

This rug will definitely brighten up our booth and give a fresh look. All it takes is some fresh paint!

Before & After: Vintage Door Room Divider

These were such a good find we couldn't pass it up! For the past two weekends we have been antique shopping and just haven't found the right door for the right price until we went to a salvage sale in southeast Atlanta. It's all about digging around to find a good bargain and we definitely dug these up. Check out the transformation with just 3 doors, 4 hinges and a good cleaning.

Before & After: Chicken Wire Frames

Only three weeks left until the Wedding Day Hooray! We're pretty excited that our vision for our booth is coming together so quickly thanks to a lot of DIY projects and Salvage shopping.

After that scary Saturday morning of floods and hail, we also brought home some old doors (more to come on this project!) and empty frames. We wanted a way to showcase some of our invitations, so we thought some vintage frames and chicken wire will do the trick!

All you need is:

Wooden Frame
Chicken Wire (you can get at your local hardware store)
Staple Gun with Staples
Wire Cutters

Directions:

Unravel the chicken wire and cut the wire with your cutters to the same shape as the back of your frame. Once you are done, you are ready to start stapling. I had a hard time to get the staple flat to the frame. Some of them didn't go through all the way, so you have to really push down hard. After you staple the wire all the way around the frame, it's time to get those clothespins out and start displaying pictures, invitations, etc.

Happy DIY!