Here is our chicken coop. It wasn't as frugal as we wanted it to be but it does feature wood scavanged from a platform doug found in the trash haul, left over building paper and rolled roofing from dad, plastic flooring found in jonet and josh's garage, left over wood we had from various projects, left over paint from our swingset, an umbrella pole joelle found in the trash haul, and a box spring frame we no longer needed to make the front doors.  We still had to buy some wood and hardware, but we saved a lot off what we could scavange.  I'm proud of our little red coup!

Go Rugby Guys!

Coffee (that would be bad) Table

Christin went running by Bullard High one day and saw that they were working on some of the buildings there. There was a pile of wood (mostly 2x6) that she noticed sitting by itself, so she inquired as to what the plan was for that wood. They told her she could have it if she wanted it. They were 12' long, so we went and cut them in half and brought them home.

Then we decided to turn them into a coffee table for the living room.

Before we could finish it, the kid's did the best they could with color crayon's and colored markers. We resanded it, and it currently sits on our back patio, awaiting paint/stain. Total cost...$0.

We love our Little-Red-Rebel and all...

...BUT WE SURE COULD USE A TRUCK!!!

Triple bunk loft beds

Christin picked up 8 trundle beds on an auction for $2 each.  I used 2 on the floor (sitting on top of food storage, of course). The third one is sitting on 2x4's mounted to the wall and a couple of 36" tall cube organizers ($35 each at target).  The stairs were made from left over wood and trash haul finds.  We sold our old bunk beds for $150 so it was a money making project! The girls love having their own spaces.  They play on there all the time.

Walmart Table Before and After

I bought this table and chairs for $10 on KSL. All I had to do was sand down the top, paint it black and poly it with left overs from our crib

The chairs needed reupholstered pretty badly obviously. They're grey because I already had the fabric from a $1-a-yard sale at Walmart from a year before. And we did have to buy a staple gun at harbor freight, which Mikeal was happy about, for $6. It only took a couple of hours and most of it was spent waiting for the paint and poly to dry.

My favorite part was trying to hop into the driver's side window after I tied the stinkin thing to the top of the car...not so graceful of a maneuver when you're 8 months pregnant.

Total price: $16

Sold it for $100 within 24 hours. (I just found the exact same table and chairs at Walmart for $124...shh, don't tell)

Kitchen Island Before and After

Ok so the other project I wanted to try was a kitchen island since the one we sold this summer sold so quickly so I started with this old cabinet that we found on the side of the road.

And I removed the knobs, added a back, added contact paper in the bottom, added a trim all around because the bottom of the wood was rotted at the bottom, stained the entire thing. (I learned from researching online that staining is like dying hair and as long as you are staining darker you dont have to sand.) added braces to the bottom and put new locking casters on it. For the top I took the leaf from my old table, sanded it, waxed it (with food safe wax) added a 1x2" trim and hooked it on with L brackets. It cost about 40 dollars for the wax, screws, L brackets and casters It sold for $180 in 2 hours. 

Dresser Before and After

Ok the calendar thing didn't really work so I decided to change things and thought this would be a fun place to post our before and after pics since we all do random projects. Here is the first one, this is a dresser JJ and I found on the side of the road. We sanded it a little bit, painted it, and changed out the knobs. What a difference!!!  One thing I discovered on this project is  a product called flotrol. It is added to paint to slow the drying time and it eliminates brush strokes. We bought cheap pulls that were silver and spray painted them a dark bronze. It cost about $25 for the paint, flotrol, and knobs and it sold for $150