Guest Room Re-do

This is the first room in our new house that I have painted and made mine (yep... 2 years later!).  I am thrilled with how it turned out.  Take a look!

When we moved in, this room had an awesome (cough) powder blue accent wall, paint lines that make me want to cry (sadly, there are more in the house), and a sharpie-d on I love you sign that I didn't love.

Let the work begin:

First the walls.  Filled holes, 2 coats of primer over the blue and an antique-y white... at this point I am not sure I love it, but I still have great things in mind.  I wanted to do a chevron accent wall, so thought I needed a pretty mellow base color.  I think I made the right call!  I am SO IN LOVE with the chevron wall and I could not have done it without my mama.  Thanks Mom!  I figured out how many stripes I wanted and plotted my grid on paper-then moved to the wall with a chalk line.  Once the chalk was down (sorry no pics of any of this) used paint tape to make the chevron.  I really thought this step would be awful... not so.  I'd probably even do it again :) 

Are you impressed?  Me too!

Next a headboard I got off the local yard sale site for $10 (I didn't get a true "before" pic :( ).  The paneling was cracked, so I took it off and replaced it with beadboard.  Primed and then painted the whole thing teal and then used antiquing glaze.

The nightstand:

I found this at the D.I. several years ago, and this is it's second makeover (kind of a poor "before", but at least I have one!).  I painted the stand itself black and sanded the drawer down to bare wood, stained with a pecan stain and then added a teal arrow to the front to tie it into the rest of the room.  

And my favorite piece, the dresser.  My friend Sherry sent me this pic and asked me if I wanted this dresser for free.  Are you kidding me??? Let me think about it... uhhh... YES!!!  Have you ever seen better bones for a furniture re-do?

Love how it turned out!  Sherry's hubby wondered if it was too late to ask for the dresser back. Yes... yes it is.  I am emotionally attached.  

The details are beautiful no?  Antiquing glaze is a beautiful thing!

Here is everything all put together.  I'm sure I will add some to the walls in the next bit, but for now I am pleased with how it all came together and find it much more "me" than powder blue!

Thanks for looking!

New Bedding

So, Jeremy decided we needed a king size bed in our room... I was sure it would not fit.  I was wrong.  So, I went shopping for new bedding.  I am in love with gray and yellow right now.  I saw a set that I L.O.V.E.D., but it was 300 dollars (of course it's on sale for 200 today lol)... :(  Then, I found something similar... a duvet cover and shams for 41 bucks... I didn't have a duvet... but that was only 50 dollars from amazon, so for 1/3 of the cost I got a similar look (I actually like it better).  So, now I had the gray bedding, I needed to add the yellow.  I was initially going to make pillows out of an old yellow sheet I had (Jeremy bought them... at that time I thought he was crazy, it felt like we were going to bed on the yellow brick road!), then I was at the DI and found some lovely yellow burlap.  I've seen lots of cute pillows around blogland and have been anxious to make some of my own.  I took a cheap pillow, cut it in half to make 2 throw pillows. 

I had to hand ruffle the burlap as the thread kept breaking when I tried the machine method.  It was totally worth a bit of work.  I really love the shabbiness of the burlap.

Next, I made a big yellow burlap pillow with a monogram.  I cut the monogram out of dollar store shelf liner/contact paper with my silhouette, stuck it to the burlap and used gray acrylic paint... Easy peasy and I LOVE it!

Finally I found this adorable bow pillow tut over at Say Yes to Hoboken and fashioned some gray bow pillows.

I really like how it all came together... Whatchu think???

I so LOVE the monogrammed one... I want to make some more!!!  Now for the rest of the room... Is it too depressing to paint the whole thing gray?

Spring

OK, spring can start, I got my mantle done!!!  OK, it's not really a mantle, it's the top of the computer desk, and the top of a dresser, but it works for me!

I'm not 100% with the results, but I was allready super late, so it's gonna have to work for now, I'll keep working on it til I take it down... I do love the spring banner though (and my Cameo). Oh yeah, and the bird cage... $2 DI find... whoot whoot!

UPDATE:
OK, I fixed it... the basket with plant was too heavy... I like it better now!

DI Dream Come True

So, this DI trip started out like any other, walking around, looking for anything that might have makeover/crafting potential.  I was about to leave when I decided to go check out the lamps to see if there were any glass pieces that might work with my spring decorations.  Then I spotted IT.  I was SO excited!  I have seriously day dreamed about finding some sweet granny's jar of buttons... who knew it would be disguised as a hideous lamp!

I got so excited about saving these little treasures I didn't catch the true "before" photo... but you get the picture... I don't know if this is a 1 1/2 quart or 2 quart jar... (I don't can :()  But at any rate there are a lot of buttons!

And they scream vintage!  There are some gorgeous pieces in here...  Check out these beauts!

Are you jealous?  You should be!  Oh yeah... 3 bucks baby!!!