Mailbox makeover (zero cost)

I gave our mailbox a makeover, using some leftover misfit spray paint that we had in the garage and some scrap vinyl (& my cameo silhouette machine to cut the letters/numbers)

Ceiling fan

We had a terrible fan. I took the glass cover off and covered the ceiling with plastic.
I spray-painted everything - the pulls, the blades, etc with oil rubbed bronze spray paint

A billion times better! 

WALL ART

WALL ART:

I BOUGHT 3 CHEAP CANVASES AND PAINTED OVER THEM 

and then it became this:

PERFECT SIZE FOR OVER THE COUCH!

World map, I painted this on a wooden sign (reclaimed wood)

Family Proclamation, family photo, and family crest with matching frames, hanging from a decorative rod

Scrabble family name tiles 

I special ordered these wood squares on Etsy, then cut the letters & numbers from vinyl using my Cameo Silhouette

Brick makeovers #1 & #2

Original brick (and halfway through process of painting the walls & molding). I hated how the multicolored brick looked - to me, the white & black splotches were reminiscent of bird-poop.

I painted the black & white parts of the brick, so that they were all a more uniform color. But I never finished the bottom section because I just wasn't sure about having all that red with the new gray wall color. So instead, I finished painting the molding and walls of the room, and procrastinated finishing the brick painting.

I finally decided I wasn't happy with how the red brick looked with the new gray wall paint - the color looked very blue, instead of gray. I decided that the problem was the red brick. So, on a whim, I started painting the brick white & gray. After I'd done about a dozen bricks, John walked into the room and asked, "WHAT are you DOING?" Uhhhhhhhh....nothing?

More painting 

The final result - and the walls now look gray like they're supposed to! And every time John walks into the room,
he says, "That looks SO much better!"