Guest Blogger...Kristine from The Painted Hive!

It's Thursday and you know what that means...it's time for another fabulous Guest Blogger here at Finding Fabulous!  Yup, Kristine from The Painted Hive is here today...wahoo, let's give her a big welcome!  If you haven't visited The Painted Hive yet, then you are missing out!  Kristine is a self described designaholic, addicted DIYer, and incurable decorator...who just happens to live in Melbourne Australia by the way, how cool is that? 

I love so many of Kristine's design projects, and am super excited she's here today to share a few of her favorites!  Okay Kristine...we're all ears, take it away!

Hi Finding
Fabulous Readers!

I'm so excited and honoured to be
guesting for Jane today. For those of you who don't know me (let's face it,
that's probably most of you as I'm still kinda new to all this!) my name's
Kristine and I'm from The Painted
Hive.
I started my blog to diarise my love of
all things home and share my passion for beautiful and liveable interior design
and decoration on a budget.
To give you an idea of my style, here's
my little (finally finished - for now anyway :-) entryway.

At the moment I'm a bit
obsessed amoured with terracotta, twine and white ceramics. You
can read and see more about my entryway here
if you'd like to.
I also recently finished a re-vamp of
my living room too (yessss, one more room down!).
Before (pic from previous
owners)

After

I adore the natural light this room
absorbs through the french bay windows. Our little house is very 'cottage' like
so in keeping with the relaxed coziness of it I like to use neutral, soft
colours and furnishings with loads of texture. You can read and see more of my
living room here.
When I'm not decorating (and then
redecorating, and then redecorating again!) you'll probably find me with
paintbrush in hand. I simply can't resist a good furniture makeover. Here are
just a few of mine:
Before

After

This was
originally a teacher's desk which I converted into a farmhouse style dining
table using an interesting method on the top and for the drawers. Read about the
whole revamp here
if you're keen.

Before

After

I purchased
four of these pressed-back chairs to use at my dining table though they were
waaay to big so I decided to transform them into reading chairs with little
footstools. I gave each one a different theme (my post on that's still to come!)
though you can read and see more about this white ticking and toile one here.

Before

After

I love these retro old-school stools. I
was lucky enough to score them for FREE after saving them from certain impending
death! Check out how I transformed them here
if you'd like.

Last but not least, here's my most
recent little project:

After

A cheap and chic light revamp. You
won't believe the before of this. Go here
to check it out.

I so hope this little post has offered
some inspiration!

If you've not stopped by my blog, The Painted Hive, before then
feel free to pop over as I'd love to see you!

Thanks so much for having me Jane and
Finding Fab readers!

Kristine
xx

You are so very welcome Kristine....and THANK YOU for sharing some of your fabulous furniture makeovers and design ideas!  Wow...I gotta tell ya, I AM IN LOVE with your cheap, chic light revamp!  I simply have to copy that in my dining room.  And the things you can do with paint and an old piece of furniture...amazing!

Thanks for the inspiration Kristine...and thanks again for stopping by!