madeit seller ascoozamii is giving away a fabric canvas artwork to one lucky blog reader. The artwork measures 30x30cm.
All you have to do to enter the canvas artwork giveaway is leave a comment below about your best or worst decorating story.
You have till Wednesday 16th February to enter! Good luck.
The winner will be published on the comments, please include your email if you comment anonymously or pop back on Thursday 17th to see if you have won.
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Never again will i convince myself the sex of our baby! For 9mths i convinced myself that bubba was a GIRL... so much so i made some very pretty and very girly canvases (laces galore!) to hang in babies room. Imagine my surprise when a very boyish 9pd 10 baby was born! So instead of lace canvases we now have jungle animal canvases! They did make nice gifts though for other baby girls :)
ReplyDeleteKerrie
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Leaving my husband at home to pain a feature wall while I was out. I had the colour picked out, so all he had to do was buy the paint. Noooo he thought the colour was wrong so bought something that he "thought" was a better match. All this coming from a colour blind man, never again! It was the most hideous colour I had ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAn experimental thing: Squares of cardboard "arranged artistically" on the living room wall.
ReplyDeleteIt was an awkward phase, to say the least.
Experimenting with new glue for my crafting. Decided craft glue wasn't going to cut it, so used superglue. 5 fingers stuck together and one trip to the hospital later...never again.
ReplyDeleteAs I teenager, under the influence of Robert Smith (The Cure), I painted my entire bedroom (including the ceiling) matt black. My mother called it "the black hole of Calcutta". I loved it until I walked into the wall one night and gave myself a black eye (at least I was colour co-ordinated!).
ReplyDeleteMy brother very artistically decided to put his number on his rubbish bin so that it wouldn't get lost or stolen. He neatly did the number - stood back and was very impressed so made it a bit darker. Only once completely finished did he step back to admire it all once more only to find that it was the wrong number. He had done a number 6 but had just moved into a house that was number 4. oops! Not sure I would let him near the paint inside given his decorating skills outside.
ReplyDeleteI once used that embossed paintable wall paper to cover some ugly gray chipped ceramic tile in a bathroom... Do Not do this! The adhesive dries and gets sucked tight to the wall showing every tile and chip underneath!
ReplyDeleteAnd it is near impossible to remove!
Once upon a time, I thought a ceiling painted gold would look awesome. It didn't...
ReplyDeleteWallpaper. Almost enough said. My bedroom at my parents house is still covered in pastel blue butterflies. It was pretty then, so dated and downright hideous to remove now. And we have just stripped an entire bedroom and, of all places, a kitchen/dining/hallway of all it's disgusting beige with burgundy and green flowers wallpaper from our rental home. Ugh. Never again.
ReplyDeleteI had a antique trunk years ago that was a ugly pink colour and didnt match anything. So I thought for the kids I;d make it a toy box for then and paint it silver so would look like a metal trunk. Well it didnt look metal just looked really tacky lol. Ive never repainted anything since.
ReplyDeleteIt's not so much a story about my decorating, but the challenges of making the most of living with someone elses decor. We move quite a bit with my husband's work and have lived in various rented places. My challenge is to make my 'style' fit in. However, one unit in Victoria was beyond a 'challenge'. It featured brown and gold swirly kitchen carpet throughout the unit - except ironically in the kitchen! Bright floral wall paper, yellow/brown curtains and a purple bathroom (including the sink & tub). No wall decoration could help. The current 'challenge' isn't so bad, but a wall canvas would certainly look nice!
ReplyDeleteThe worst decorating I ever did was choose my own wall paper for my room when I was 13 years old. Stripped pastel lines going down the wall with white in between the colours... in the white there was glitter... It was more like scrap booking paper all over my walls! Hehehe...
ReplyDeletexo Steph
I was painting my spare bedroom, and turned my back for only a moment to answer my mobile. Not one, but TWO, of my cats walked through the paint tray, across the wooden floorboards, and onto my new shag pile rug in the loungeroom!
ReplyDeleteWe painted our bedrooms wonderfully colours then put the painting equipment & paint out the back to clean up after a cuppa, went out & found the kids had decided that their cuppy house, the outdoor toys & themselves needed to be sycodelic, yup go smacking & took for ever to clen the kids
ReplyDeleteputting mirror tiles on the roof - whilst we thought it was fun...it actually looked very tacky and scared us enough into taking them down!
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Trying to paint a wall years ago with that suede effect. I dont know what was worse, the pain in my wrists from trying to achieve it or the fact my wall looked like an unfinished hotch potch mess. I think I will leave those things to the experts!
ReplyDeleteI tried to make a photo wall with personal and random photos...the pics were printed on normal paper and peeled off the walls - yuck!
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So fussy, people often ask me which housepainter I use. Nothing like DIY!
ReplyDeletebright pink girls room bright purple one too and my room is green... my house is a rainbow!
ReplyDeleteford_leeanne@yahoo.com.au Leeanne
Thank you for all your answers, it sounds like we aren't alone with the interesting decorating tips.
ReplyDeleteThe winner of the ascoozamii canvas artwork is Rebecca for her matt black bedroom.
I think a lot of us wanted to paint our rooms black or an interesting colour however our parents letting us was a different story.
Rebecca can you please email bec@madeit.com.au your address details.