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Morris Farmhouse Dining Room

March 30, 2017 3 Comments

Guys, I literally have no patience. At all. I often think that if I were to have more patience maybe I would have a better blog. But C’est la vie!

Today I’m excited to blog about my half completed dining room. We have the sideboard area completed, our Stikwood wall up, our white table set completed and now we’re just waiting on our rug to come and me to finish my DIY beaded light fixture. But for the most part, it is completed. I always find a light fixture and rug “make” the space, so it will be cool to so how it will look when completely done, but I just couldn’t wait! The sun is streaming through my windows and since our dining room is in the middle of our home, it’s often hard to photograph because of the darkness.. so I opened up the door wide and snapped away! I cannot wait to start planting & working outside when it warms up a bit.

Of course, below I will have all the sources to this room so you can replicate it. I will also tag my light fixture and rug that will complete the space.

I’ll forever be grateful for Stikwood sending this wall to us. We will mostly likely leave it in the space when we move as it easily comes off, but sadly, most boards break in two when you pull it off. Isn’t it so pretty though? Stikwood is amazing because it doesn’t put ONE hole in your wall.

Also, can we take a second to talk about these pillows? I bought the pillow cases for 14.99 for the set, and then I sewed them to fit my pillows. It literally took 10 minutes and they are one of my favourite things in this dining room! I’ll have a tutorial up for it soon!

I wanted this space to feel comfortable as we spend a lot of time in our dining room sharing meals, playing settlers with our favourite few and beyond even spending time in it, it’s one of the first spaces you see when you walk into my house. Our downstairs is an open layout and I wanted it to be the focal point.

Above is the view from my front door. It looks a lot closer than it actually is as my lens is very tight. I also wanted it to be a really white and bright space as it’s a dark space and our floors are so orange. Gotta off set them somehow!

It’s funny, I try to be more modern and had this bench painted in solid white and finally I just couldn’t take it, took it into our workshop and distressed it like mad. Now it’s totally my cup of tea and suits the space so well.

Hope y’all loved seeing a peek into our Farmhouse Dining Room. It’s been my joy to decorate our home and I love how it’s turning out. I spend so much time in our home as I work from it and so I really wanted to create a space that spoke to me and made me feel even more creative!

Below are link to shop my exact pieces, I will also be finding look a like table and console as we built those.

Love you all & thank you for all your support on the daily!

Toddler House Bed [ DiY ]

February 14, 2017 3 Comments

I feel like I’ve done way too much DIY’s lately. I mean, do you guys mind? It’s just, this is how we do our homes. Our homes are made up of 80% Rustic Hand built Furniture by Glen, 10% thrifted, salvaged & cheap decor finds and 10% DIY. So naturally, I have to post what we’re doing in our home. Because honestly friends, a pretty home doesn’t have to be expensive. You just have to be willing to use your hands & want to learn.

Today on the blog I want to share our daughters super adorable toddler house bed. It took us only 2 hours to built & sand. It took me another few hours to paint it. End result is super fun & it makes her bedroom feel the much more magical.

The only thing I would change about this bed and we will most likely add is, a headboard. I know these bed typically do not have them. but since the top of her bed isn’t against a wall, it makes it awkward because she falls out of her bed. So I will most likely update the photos once we get the headboard on.

Here is the tutorial for this toddler house bed. We did a few alterations to her plans.

Want to know where we purchased everything in her room? Shopable links are posted below!

DIY | Faux Metal Coffee Table

July 20, 2016 2 Comments

The last couple of weeks and months have been a whirlwind of orders, endless emails, decision making and stress. We finally decided yesterday morning that we will be closing our Rugged Rooster business indefinitely.

If you’re new to our blog, we’ve built rustic furniture from scratch for three years now. We’ve been blessed to have had amazing clients and built over 1700 pieces but there has to come a time in life when you need to say no to stress. We’ve been so incredibly blessed to stay home with our kids, even if it had us working 10 – 14 hour days with the rare day off.

One of our customers asked if we would be putting up tutorials of our pieces, so you can start to build them, and the answer is YES. So I’m here today to post a how to build a faux metal coffee table.

Since we do not have the resources to make the drawings and edited versions I’ll be sending you over to Ana White. It’s a super easy, straight forward project. The only thing I would recommend, if you would like to do a really good sand on your table top, is leave a slight 1/2″ overhang on all sides. It also makes it way easier to paint the base & stain the top.

We sanded down the top, and then took a chain to beat it up, see method here. We then took Sunbleached Oak, by Minwax and applied one light coat to the top. You want to let it sink in for about 5 minutes. Wipe off in one continuous direction until no stain comes off when you wipe. We let our pieces sit for about 3-5 hours ( depending on the humidity in the air ) and then we apply two coats of matte polyurethane.

For the base we purchased a fine tip paint brush and a can of matte black paint. You can also spray paint the base as well, but you need to make sure you completely wrap the top before doing so. I love the look of the black paint as it goes on a bit thicker than spray paint so it looks like true metal.

You can also plane all your boards down so that it has a more seamless look, but we wanted the top to look a bit more rustic as it has a very modern base.

Head on over to AnaWhite to check out her take on this fun Faux Metal Coffee Table. We made our version before Ana came out with hers ( replicating a Restoration Hardware coffee table ), but since it’s practically the same, you do the same steps.

Ana does an amazing job, as per usual, but she uses skinny 1×3 planks instead of the thicker 2×8 planks that we use. Keep in mind when buying wood from a store, it is always less than the marked dimension. So 2×8’s are 1.5″ x 7 1/4″. So you need to keep that in mind when you are building you base.

I hope you liked this tutorial on how to make a faux metal coffee table. If you have any additional questions, pop a question below and I would love to answer. We’ve built over 30 of these coffee tables for our clients and so we can tell you what will and wont work.

Have an absolutely fantastic week!

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