Category Archives: Estate

18
February
2013

Tags: DIY, Estate, Home Decor

Vintage Medical Cabinet turned Princess Glam

I am a little obsessed with this redo I just finished. I want to keep it, but I don’t have the perfect spot for it, so I will have to sell it at the market in April.

Here is the cabinet before…

I put two coats of Krylon in Catalina Mist Satin finish and added crystal knobs from Hobby Lobby and here it is after…

This is where I wanted to put it until my ever so smart husband reminded me that we couldn’t open the oven. Not that that’s a

huge deal to me since I don’t cook, but he vetoed the idea.

21
January
2013

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Home Decor, Inspiraton Tuesday, Organize, Thrifty, Uncategorized

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Hello

Hello, my name is Coley and I have an organizing problem. I have great vision of my house being labeled and organized and well, perfect. I know that’s not totally possible in REAL life, but in my head it really does look fabulous! When I organize, I can’t do a little at a time. I have to literally take everything out of a room so I can then put it back together perfectly. Does anyone else do that? But then my kids wake up, or I need to change a diaper, or it’s lunch time… (I could go on all day). So I am left with everything out in the middle of the hallway with two bins labeled and nothing put away. It is then time to go to bed and I have to throw everything back into the room unorganized once again and hope to try again another day. With all this to say, I have not finished the organization project I wanted to share with you so how about some more inspiration to motivate me to try again tomorrow?

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Now I am off to organize!

PS Who’s coming to the Blog Conference??

19
January
2013

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Holidays, Home Decor, Inspiraton Tuesday, Kids Activities, Organize, Thrifty

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Inspiration Saturday

If you are local to Phoenix, you need to come to our garage sale tomorrow! We are cleaning out our market stuff and making room for more!

7:30 am

3701 N 34th st Phx, Az 85018

This is usually a day filled with beautiful pictures of perfect houses that we could only dream of… Well, today I decided to share with you some things I have gotten accomplished because of the inspiration on my very own blog! In case you have been hiding under a rock, we have added some amazing chicks to our blogging team, and man are they inspiring! Here is what I got done Friday…

The ever so talented Beth wrote a post this week about organized kids toys. She said everything has to have a place, so I did that. I bought a cheap toy holder from a garage sale for $10 and spray painted the buckets grey (total cost with the spray paint was $30). This will be out in the family room so I didn’t want the rainbow blasting from the corner!

I was also inspired to organize my Christmas decor for the first year EVER! Thanks to our guest blogger Danielle Wurth for her inspiration here

I also bought the receipt organizer that our Lovely Mandy suggested here!

Next on my list is to try those amazing fridge frames from Karie! Did you guys see this post? She is super talented and I am a bit jealous. hehe!

Happy Organizing!

14
January
2013

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Home Decor, Kids Activities, Organize, Thrifty, Uncategorized

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Collections of Masterpieces

We had a busy weekend over here at the Junk in the Trunk headquarters. Well, we don’t really have headquarters, but it sounds so cool to say that doesn’t it!? Maybe someday… Anyway, Lindsey and I and our wonderful husbands built some fun stuff for the April show this weekend. OK you caught me again, our husbands did the building and we did the painting, but we were totally working hard I swear!

I have been racking my brain since my son started preschool for a way to organize and display his artwork. It seems like there is mountains of artwork that comes home everyday and some things are just too cute to throw away. I purchased these cork squares from amazon, I am sure they are available at any craft store or Walmart.

I wanted to put them in a place the kids saw their special artwork everyday, but I really didn’t want it in the living room. I want my house kid friendly, but not to look like the kids are taking over. Anyone with me on this one?

So I decided to put these in the hallway. It is up right outside their bedroom and we can all enjoy the art throughout the day.

How cute is that little lion?

I actually just ordered one more set of the cork boards so I can have that whole wall covered with their art as they walk down the hall. I love it and the boys love seeing their art up there!

24
December
2012

Tags: Estate, Family Life, Holidays, Home Decor, Inspiraton Tuesday, Organize

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Holiday Table

Happy Christmas Eve day!!! This is absolutely my favorite season of the year! I am not brave enough to host Christmas dinner yet, but if I did, here are some ideas I would use to set my table.

For the source link, click on the picture.

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Do you host? We would love to see your beautiful table! Post pictures to our Facebook page.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

16
July
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Thrifty

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Kitchen Update

So, as most of you know, we are in a home that has not been updated since it was built in the 60s. We love the character, but we don’t love these wonderful details…

I have always wanted a picket fence, just not this one

We participated in the *junkrestore* market this weekend and I bought these beauties from one of our amazing vendor Shabby Junker!

This inspired my hubby and I to get busy on the kitchen. Down the road, we plan to do a full reno of the kitchen (Dream land) but for now we needed to make it at least a little cute.

My little men jumped at the opportunity to “help”

Yes, we are painting over wallpaper. I would normally not do this, but these walls will be coming down eventually, so I wanted to put as little time and effort in this project as possible to make it cute until the big redo.

We primed the walls and it opened up the kitchen already!

I have a dilemma though. We will not be replacing the counter tops until the big redo, so we have to live with these ugly things.

They are a speckled off white and tan with really dark and dirty grout. Believe it or not, these are sparkly clean. Yuck!

I would normally do white cabinets and white walls and use the EAT sign as the pop of color, but I fear the counter top will look worse against all white. So I was thinking dark grey cabinets and a cream color on the wall.

Inspiration photos…

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I also am planning on painting our old fridge with chalkboard paint.

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What do you think?

22
June
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Home Decor, Refinishing, Thrifty

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DIY Reality

Ok friends, this is not a pretty post, but reality. As I am home resting with my new little man, I have had a few days on the couch staring at all the undone projects around my house. I get discouraged when I read other blogs and it looks like everyone has their life together and their houses are perfect. Then it hit me that I do that to you guys too! I realized how careful I am when taking pictures and posting about things in my house, to only show the things that are done and pretty. Well, that is far from the case. Although I take a lot of pride in having my house mostly made up of DIY projects, there are some down sides. Especially when it is a business, you tend to pour your energy into getting things done for shows and clients, and not yourself. Here is a little dose of reality in my life…

So remember this buffet that I painted a couple months ago?

Well, I wanted to just get it done and I was pregnant, so I couldn’t lift it. So instead of waiting for my hubby to come home and help me, I just painted it right where it was. I didn’t want to get paint on the carpet so I just didn’t paint the bottom of the legs. I figured I would get that done later. Yep, you guessed it, it has been two months, and they are still bare.

And I bought this side table about a month ago and had every intention of painting it…Well, it is still unpainted (and a mess)! Yes, I probably could have cleaned this off before I snapped the picture, but this post is about reality right?? Yes, that is my breast pump in all it’s glory!

And yet another example is my dining room table. I bought this three months ago and started painting, didn’t like the color so I repainted half and it is currently still half painted sitting in my dining room!

Sorry the lighting is bad- the table is half white and half off-white, but hard to tell in the picture.

And I sanded and stained the top, but didn’t put the polyurathaine on and we ate on it anyway so now it looks like this…

Yes, this is my reality. I hope I have made you feel better about those unfinished projects.

16
April
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Giveaway, Home Decor, The Trio, The Vintage Market, Thrifty

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Shopping for a Cause

I had the privilege today to join 80 wonderful women helping send teen moms to camp to learn about Jesus. We had our annual YoungLives tea fundraiser and it was so powerful to hear from these young moms and the way YoungLives has changed their lives and their family trees. YoungLives is a group in the Young Life organization for teen moms where they can come and feel accepted and loved for who they are. And guess what? You can help too! What do you have to do you ask? Well, just come to our market!

A portion of all ticket sales will help support Young Life of Paradise Valley. Young Life is a non-denominational Christian organization that reaches out to adolescents in the greater north Phoenix area through caring adults that spend time with youth in order to empower them to see that their lives have great worth, meaning and purpose.

If you want first dibs on all the goods, early entry starts at 9am and is $8. General admission is at 10am and is $4. 12 and under are free and after 3pm admission is free.

More exciting news…Modern Manor graciously donated this amazing industrial cart that will be given away at our show! Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 and all the procedes will go straight to Young Life!

Most vendors will accept credit cards, but some can only take cash so there will be an ATM on site to use!

02
April
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Holidays, Home Decor, Refinishing, Thrifty, Uncategorized

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Busy weekend

Well, it is only Monday and I need the weekend to be here already. We had quite a busy weekend around here. On Friday night we took the boys to the rodeo in Cave Creek and they LOVED it! Every time a cow got roped, Broden would ask if he was dead and start to cry. It was so sweet. He was happy to see that every one of them got up and trotted out the gate.

On Saturday my dad and brother came over and we tackled painting the living room, dining room and hallway in 4 hours! I had to sit and rest a lot because I was having contractions, but my wonderful hubby, dad and brother were super stars! It was dark when everything was put back together so I will post pictures another day.

There was one wall I was able to get some pictures of. This is the entry wall before…

Sexy right?!

Sorry for the crazy light reflecting. We needed a lamp and I didn’t realize it did that until I uploaded it. I will post better pictures soon

On Sunday after church, my wonderful hubby finished all the trim while the boys slept and I went to a baby shower for Adrianne from Dream Book Design! I had so much fun praying for her sweet baby boy coming (we are due two weeks apart!) and showering her with love! I got home and got my painting clothes on and tackled a few things.

This is a vanity a friend of mine bought from me and asked me to paint for her. I fell in love with it and wish I could keep it!

I also tackled a dining room table and my buffet that my parents gave us.

Sorry for the bad pictures. It was late and the lighting was awful.

We have dear family friends coming into town this week and we are so excited they will be here celebrating Easter with us. This is a very special holiday to us and it usually gets skipped over pretty quickly. We really want to cherish this time as a family and focus on celebrating Jesus. It is also my husbands birthday coming up soon so we have lots of celebrating to do!

We hope you have a great week and a happy Easter!

26
March
2012

Tags: DIY, Estate, Family Life, Home Decor, Refinishing, The Vintage Market, Thrifty

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Coley’s Picking Adventures

I had quite an adventure last week. My mom and I took my boys to go see “Grandpa Cowboy”. He is my mom’s dad and a true cowboy. He is 84 years old and wakes up at 4am every morning and hops on his horse and is out on the ranch all day! We really enjoyed our time with him.

My Grandpa had gone to our last Market back in September and was excited to start gathering “junk” for me. He got me some great stuff, but my favorite are these pieces. A glass door knob painted white and turquoise and a US marker that was used in WWII on horse bridles to show they belonged to the US Calvary.

On Thursday we were planning on leaving mid morning to head back home. My grandpa mentions that there were more door knobs where he found this one. I told him I wanted more, so he said it was just 15 miles away in an abandoned house in an old mining town. So I grabbed an iced tea and a slice of banana bread and we headed out the door.

The gun was just in case we got attacked by a mountain lion… WHAT?!

Little did I know 15 miles would take two hours! It was up in the mountains by his house and the road was so bad we barely made it!

My grandpa is trying to stack rocks so we can make it past this wash with out tipping our truck!

We passed by the old mining town. If you look hard in this picture you can see a chimney. This is all that is left from a whole mining town that President Hoover worked in before he was president!

Of course my battery died (since I didn’t think we would be gone for 6 hours!) so I have no more pictures.

We finally got to the house. It was at the top of this tall hill. The road was so bad we couldn’t drive up to the house, so we walked the quarter of a mile up to the house. When we reached the top, I saw a little glimpse of heaven! Rusty metal everywhere covering the entire yard! I started picking right away! Two hours later we walked away with…

Two rusty metal bed springs

Rusty base of an old wash machine- this will be made into a coffee table!

Rusty car seat springs

An old metal display case from the general store

lots of door knobs

Sorry I don’t have any pictures We are headed back to pick up everything next month so I will post pictures then.

It was a fun experience to go with my grandpa and hope to do it again soon!