Welcome back to our series: DIY On A Dime! This series is designed to help you save money while furnishing and decorating your house. With the prices of everything skyrocketing, we are here to help you stay on budget. We will walk you through the process step-by-step on how you can save thousands by doing the project yourself. In part three of this series we are showing you how you can give yourself DIY marble counter tops. P.s. scroll below for an awesome deal to save money on your must-have DIY products!

We've been inspired by our friends Meg & Joe Piercy. Who says you can't have the renovation of your dreams. Check out their channel to find out how you can save money on your next flip. Click here!

Marbled patterns are all the rage, but so expensive. Get a legitimate marble finish on your counters using the Amy Howard at Home Acrylic Glacier Resin. Cindy from Provincial Designs demonstrates how to achieve this finish. Marble counter tops can cost thousand of dollars (the national average is three grand!), do it yourself for only $140!!!

Shop the supplies you'll need here to stay on budget:

•  Clean Slate: $32.00
•  Acrylic Glacier Resin Bundle: $32.00
•  Scandinavian Gray - Pigment Powder: $11.50
•  Noir - Pigment Powder: $11.50
•  Strasburg White - Pigment Powder: $11.50
•  Bauhaus Buff - One Step Paint: $22.00
•  Deep Gold - Mica Powder: $19.99

This brings your grand total for supplies to only: $140.49

Keep in mind, this project won't use up all of your supplies! Once you buy them, you will have leftovers to use on other projects, giving you the best bang for your buck.

Welcome back to our series: DIY On A Dime! This series is designed to help you save money while furnishing and decorating your house. With the prices of construction, supplies, and contractors skyrocketing, we are here to help you stay on budget. We will walk you through the process step-by-step on how you can save thousands by doing the project yourself. In part three of this series we are showing you how you can restore a side table to give it bold character. P.s. scroll below for an awesome deal to save money on your must-have DIY products!

End tables are the perfect touch to any room. Add a lamp, your favorite candle, and whatever decor your heart desires to create a cozy living space... but don't break the bank while doing it. This end table is going for $300. Let us show you how to create your very own for only $92.50 (with a lot of leftover supplies!!!). You could always turn around and sell it to turn your hobby into a side-gig!

Shop the supplies you'll need here to stay on budget:

•  Clean Slate: $32.00
•  English Boxwood - One Step Paint: $19.00
•  Furniture Tonic: $26.50
•  Mind Your Own Beeswax: $15.00

Additional Supplies:

• Dresser (You can find a dresser at your local thrift store, an auction, estate/garage sell, re-purpose your old furniture, or even on the side of the road for free!)
• Use our Mesh Stencil to add any design to your project!

This brings your grand total for supplies to only: $92.50

Keep in mind, this project won't use up all of your supplies! Once you buy them, you will have leftovers to use on other projects, giving you the best bang for your buck.

You're done! Are you going to keep the piece or sell it? 

 

Welcome to our new series: DIY On A Dime! This series is designed to help you save money while furnishing and decorating your house. With the prices of construction and contractors skyrocketing, we are here to help you stay on budget. We will walk you through the process step-by-step on how you can save thousands by doing the project yourself. In part two of this series we are showing you how you can restore a dresser to look like a vintage staple piece. P.s. scroll below for an awesome deal to save money on your must-have DIY products!

Dressers are a must for storage. If you are lacking storage, dressers are a stylish way to keep the clutter contained. There is no need to break the bank for a good dresser. This vintage-style dresser is going for over $600! Let us show you how to do it for just over $11!

Shop the supplies you'll need here to stay on budget:

•  Liming Wax: $8.50
•  2" Chip Brush: $2.99

Additional Supplies:

• Dresser (You can find a dresser at your local thrift store, an auction, estate/garage sell, re-purpose your old furniture, or even on the side of the road for free!)
• Use our Mesh Stencil to add any design to your project!

This brings your grand total for supplies to only: $11.49

Keep in mind, this project won't use up all of your supplies! Once you buy them, you will have leftovers to use on other projects, giving you the best bang for your buck.

Meg and Joe are back this week with huge projects. Together they tackle two 100 year old homes. Meg and Joe go to a local auction in this weeks episode to find old pieces to restore to save money on their clients renovations. By finding auction items and using their clients old furniture, and restoring them with Megmade paint, Meg and Joe saved their clients thousand of dollars.

Watch Renovation Goldmine on HGTV Saturday's 10/9c

Shop Megmade Paint With This Link:

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Kitchen

 

The Conner's have lived in their tutor style home for seven years. With three kids, they have outgrown their tiny kitchen. A wall needed to come down, which means Meg and Joe had to save as much money as they could. Meg and Joe headed to a local auction to get pieces. By doing this, they saved the Conner's almost $5,000!

 

  

 Project #2: Sheree & Kevin Steward

 

200 year old house

  

 The Steward's live in an almost 200 year old house. Meg and Joe fell in love with the "gold" that was built into this historic house. They had their work cut out for them as Meg and Joe tackled almost this whole house with a $20,000 budget. In order to stay on budget, Meg and Joe highlighted old pieces and architect already in the house to save this couple $8,000!

  

 

Watch Renovation Goldmine on HGTV Saturday's 10/9c

Welcome to our new series: DIY On A Dime! This series is designed to help you save money while furnishing and decorating your house. With the prices of construction and contractors skyrocketing, we are here to help you stay on budget. We will walk you through the process step-by-step on how you can save thousands by doing the project yourself. We are kicking this series off by showing you how you can restore a bathroom armoire.

Bathroom cabinets are a must to help you stay organized in a small space. This vintage bathroom armoire is being sold for just under $2,500! Scroll below to find out how you can create this armoire for less than $75 in supplies...

Shop the supplies you'll need here to stay on budget:

•  One Step Paint - Linen (or color of choice): $34.00
•  Toscana Milk Paint - My Linen Apron (or color of choice): $25.50
•  Cerusing Wax: $15

Additional Supplies:

• Bathroom Cabinet (You can find a bathroom cabinet at your local thrift store, an auction, estate/garage sell, re-purpose your old furniture, or even on the side of the road!)
• Use our Gold Leaf + Gilding Size to add a special touch to this project

This brings your grand total for supplies to only: $74.50

Keep in mind, this project won't use up all of your supplies! Once you buy them, you will have leftovers to use on other projects, giving you the best bang for your buck.

Step One

Clean area thoroughly and sand area before starting

Step Two

Paint a base coat of One Step Paint and Let Dry

Step Three

Optional: Add Gilding Size And Gold Leaf To Highlight Design

Step Four

Mix Up Milk Paint And Let Sit For 30 Minutes

Step Five

Paint Milk Paint On Top Of One Step Paint And Let Dry

Step Six

Brush A Light Coat Of Cerusing Wax Over Entire Piece

You just saved yourself over $2,000!!! What will you flip next?

Everyone is raving about the new series on HGTV called Renovation Goldmine. Our friends Meg and Joe go into houses and find pieces that they think are 'furniture gold'. In this weeks episode, they take on two huge projects including a whole house and a new kitchen. See how they use the Paint they partnered with Amy Howard on to give new life to old furniture pieces!

Watch Renovation Goldmine on HGTV Saturday's 10/9c

Shop Megmade Paint With This Link:

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Project #1: The Mihalek's

A Whole House

Meg and Joe are tackling a whole house in this weeks episode. In order to tackle such a big project, Meg and Joe are looking to save money anywhere they can. Meg and Joe were able to get timeless pieces from the Mihalek's relatives to save $5,400. The only piece of furniture that Meg and Joe purchased were dining chairs. They turned the Mihalek's house into a dream home that is kid friendly.

Project #2: Fanning Sisters

Kitchen + Dining Area

Meg and Joe are giving these sisters, with completely different styles, a beautiful new kitchen of their dreams. The Fanning Sisters live close to other relatives. Meg and Joe were able to pop in to the relatives houses, and find pieces that needed to be restored, to be used in the Fanning's new kitchen. By re-purposing a cabinet, chairs, a table, and more, Meg and Joe saved these sisters $4,700! (They only had to buy bar stools!)

Watch Renovation Goldmine on HGTV Saturday's 10/9c

Our One Hour Miracle Paint really works miracles! Our new paint is durable for counters, cabinets, floors, outdoor pieces, and so much more! Tracy Luno from Vintage Revived Design and Decor shows you how you too can give your outdated bathroom a complete makeover with our new formula (it is so easy)! 

Shop What She Used

•  Clean Slate
•  1.5" Nylon Tapered Brush
•  Aviary - 1 Hour Miracle Paint

HOW TO

Step One 

You Must Always Start With A Clean Surface. Clean Surface With Clean Slate.

Step Two

Remove Bathroom Vanity Doors And Drawers

Step Three

Use Our 1.5" Brush To Paint Miracle Paint Onto Vanity (remember: no sanding or stripping is required before this!)

Step Four

Paint Doors And Drawers With Miracle Paint

Step Five

Let Dry 

Apply As Many Coats As Needed 

Check out these other ways you can use our One Hour Miracle Paint

Paint Outdoor Furniture

 Paint Your Front Door

Our friends Meg and Joe want to 'Find The Gold' in everything. Their series on HGTV called Renovation Goldmine has everyone talking. Meg and Joe specialize in bringing old furniture back to life with their line of paint, which also happens to be our passion over here at Amy Howard At Home. They partnered with Amy Howard to create a beautiful line that can be purchased with the link below.

Catch their new show on HGTV Saturdays at 10/9c.

Shop Megmade Paint

•   Click Here

Take a simple piece and turn it into a sophisticated treasure with our Embossing Gel! In today's blog, Blanca from Furniture With Imagination takes a plain wooden box and turns it into a vintage planter. You have to give this a try!

Shop What She Used

•  Embossing Gel
•  Ode To Italy - Mesh Stencil
•  Milk Paint
•  Mica Powder
•  Glazed Over
•  Light Wax
•  Dark Wax

HOW TO 

Step One

Tape Down Stencil To Surface

Step Two

Spread Embossing Gel Over Stencil, Remove Stencil, And Let Dry

Step Three

Paint Over Design With Toscana Milk Paint

Step Four

Apply As Many Coats As Needed Allowing It To Dry In Between Layers

Step Five

Use A Sea Sponge To Dab On A Different Color Of Toscana Milk Paint (Blanca transitioned between three different colors for this step)

Step Six

Once Dry, Apply Antiquing Glaze With Sea Sponge

Step Seven

Use Metallic Paint To Paint Raised Areas Of The Planter

Step Eight

Offload Wax On Top Of Cardboard Then Apply Over The Surface Of The Planter (always use Light Wax first then Dark Wax)

Embossing Gel is a decorative, water based, acrylic gel medium that dries clear. The clarity allows any color underneath to show through and may be tinted with Mica Powder, Pigment Powder, paints, etc. to create an even more unique look. Use with a furniture stencil or by itself to add raised and detailed texture to your next project. 

One 16 oz. jar of Embossing Gel can cover approximately 12 square feet by brush and 2 square feet by trowel. 

Our friends Meg and Joe want to 'Find The Gold' in everything. They have a new series on HGTV called Renovation Goldmine, and it is taking the world by storm. Meg and Joe specialize in bringing old furniture back to life with their line of paint. They partnered with Amy Howard to create a beautiful line that can be purchased with the link below. Catch their new show on HGTV Saturdays at 10/9c.

Shop Megmade Paint

•   Click Here

 Project #1: Jen & Arno

Speak Easy + Main Bedroom 

Joe and Meg undertook a big project with Jen and Arno's main bedroom and historic speak easy. In order to maximize every penny for this project, Meg and Joe found old furniture to restore. By painting old furniture, they saved $4,200. They gave old side tables, an heirloom desk, and a statement dresser new life for Jen and Arno's new space.  

Project #2: Anita & Andre

Basement

Anita and Andre are doctors in Chicago. They contacted Meg and Joe to help them create an adult space in the basement. Meg and Joe are completely turning this basement around. In order to save money, they are taking on one of their biggest tasks to date: a pool table and poker table! Meg's line of paint that she partnered with Amy Howard on can be used on anything! They painted the pool table yellow, yes you heard that right. They painted the poker table green. By giving new life to old furniture, they saved $4,300! These were definitely show stoppers in Anita and Andre's newly renovated basement.

Watch Renovation Goldmine on HGTV Saturday's 10/9c