I was so excited when Homes.com contacted me to be apart of their Crafting for Charity Event. I have worked with Homes.com a number of times and even had a chance to meet some of them in real life at SNAP conference last year. They have been so supportive of me throughout this whole recovery process and I am excited to be a part of this campaign.
Here’s the deal, myself and a few other bloggers have each been given the task of coming up with a project that our readers, and the readers and followers of Homes.com will vote on. Whichever project has the most votes, that blogger will win $5,000 to put towards their charity of choice. Of course for me that means, if I win I will be donating the money to Mother’s Against Drunk Driving. I hope to do everything in my power to get drunk drivers off the roads, and I know this money will help further a cause that will forever be near and dear to my heart.
So, when faced with this challenge I wanted to make something that would go with my living room since that’s the big project I’ve been working on. And of course, I wanted to make something using what I had, for the most part. And that’s what I did, total cost of this project for me? $12. Total cost if you had to buy everything from scratch? $18. Pretty nice huh
So here’s the process-
I started out with an old coffee table Morgan and I picked up when we first got married. It has been painted and repainted what feels like a thousand times. My original plan was to sand it down and stain it. But after 2 hours spent on sanding just the top, I realized that wasn’t going to happen.
So, it was time for plan B. This is what I started with-
And then Mojo and I headed to Home Depot and picked up a 48″ Wood Lath Bundle for $12. I laid them out and stained them using Minwax Dark Walnut stain.
And don’t forget to take the pledge and choose to Stand Up for Sobering Up.
Christine is the Content Marketing Coordinator for Homes.com. She's a small town girl at heart, who currently lives in Norfolk, VA with her husband and their fur baby. When she's not working, she enjoys cooking, decorating, traveling, and binge watching Netflix. As a proud Virginia Tech alum, she also loves cheering on the Hokies!