Painted Bedroom Furniture

We were given our bedroom furniture as hand me downs when we got married, but because we have a different size mattress, the headboard (a full) never worked with our bed. We purchased the Ikea Frame years ago but then the furniture never really meshed with the feel of the room. Plus, because nothing really matched, and we go in spurts with keeping our room nice, it just hasnt been top priority.

Now that there's some order in our room again (it feels like it took two years to adjust to having a 5th person in our home), it was time to finally paint our bedroom furniture to make it ours. We put it off for a long time because of sanding everything, but I came across something from Kilz that we used for our "stained" furniture that was oil based. (It was sold at both home depot and lowes)

My husband is a whiz with a spray can and so instead of messing with painting it and worrying about brush strokes, we sanded down the spots needing sanding, primed everything with the spray paint  version of this primer and then sprayed on the latex paint with our paint sprayer, which resulted in a beautiful pained smooth pottery barn type finish.

 

As with anything, the result you get is what you put in. It definitely took him a lot of prep work to get this nice of a finish but he did amazing. We were both sick all weekend, so I helped here and there but was pretty much a baby sitting outside watching.

And how cool is he? He even took pictures of the process (without being asked!)

This was a before shot.





Sanded the water spots down with steel wool and fine grit sandpaper.





Then primed everything:









Then painted. This was a two day process. It took two coats of primer and two coats of paint.










(Random chandelier shot, picked it up at a thrift store for 10 dollars, and I love how it hangs above our handmade desk!)

I just love the results.




I still need to do something with the curtains in our room, I would like to make something for the tops of the furniture (table runners), I need to recover the lamp shade, and we need a new duvet set and a couple other things here and there, but it is so nice to finally have a unifying theme in our bedroom.  It makes me want to keep my room from being the catch all room in the house!

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Decorate Dollar Store Dishes

I have been eyeing up those fun face plates for a few years, trying to decide if it was worth the money to shell out for 1, then 2, and now 3 plates to entice my children to eat different food. It's not that they are over the top pricey or anything.

I had a plain white coffee mug sitting in my cabinet, begging to be decorated. I went to Michael's and purchased this porcelain paint pen:



Then I decorated both sides of the coffee mug. Because everyone needs a cute mug to drink out of.


I'm a lefty. And you be the judge- morning bed head or crazy chasing kids all day hair?



Here's the other side:



Well then it got me to thinking. I bet I could freehand a face on a plate for the kids. It might not be perfect but it would do the job!








They are already a big hit. Something about ranch and beards...

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Acrylic Shapes

Ugh. I have been awake since 4 am. I have caught my 50 millionth cold or something of the year. Ok, that is an exaggeration but I feel like I have been sick all of 2008! And its not even a cold. I dont know what it is. Misery? I caught a misery bug. haha..it sure does make me look forward to being Mommy today!| I feel so bad when I am not 100% for my kids. Jaden didnt seem himself yesterday, hopefully he isn't catching it too.

ANYWAY.

I love acrylic. I love dressing it up, glitterizing it, rubons, ribobn, anything. I love acrylic. They get kind of pricey though and I have to scrapbook cheaply.

My favorite thing about creating is when most of the stuff (embellishments) I use is what I have made or designed to then add to the page, book, project I am working on.

So I thought to myself "I can make my own shapes!" ...and I did! I used a saw that my father in law gave Micah last year for wood work, bought the acrylic at home depot and went to work. I did everything out of shapes I drew. Granted, they are simple shapes, but I drew them (see the bird in there?) There are so many possibilities with this. I want to do my own acrylic album project at some point.

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