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We've reached week 3 of my daughters' bedroom makeover and we are in the home stretch people! It is a good thing too, because I don't think the rest of my house can take much more of this. Isn't it crazy how work in one room makes all the rooms around it into chaos?
This week I finished the vanity for the girls' room. It was a gift from my mom and purchased at one of my favorite downtown Kirkwood stores, Found. (131 W. Jefferson Ave. (314-821-0335). They looove to use it for their morning primp sessions. (Sorry but this bad blogger forgot to take a proper before picture so this is as close as it gets.)
I took it outside to sand it down and give it a fresh coat of white paint. Sorry Richard Branson, but you were on top of the recycling pile. Love that BeeGee hair thing you got going though.
Once it was painted white I got out my navy craft paint and the smallest brush I could steal from the girls' art supplies and decided to paint a little trim around the doors and drawer.
I cut a piece of paper to size, measured out the size and length of the border I wanted and then cut it out with my trusty x-acto knife. A little lesson learned: don't cut out the entire border or you will essentially just cut a big square out of the paper. Then you'll have to re-measure and re-cut your template. And you'll get frustrated and cuss under your breath like an old man and forget to take progress pictures of the whole thing.
Do yourself a favor and cut out everything except the corners, thus leaving your center in tact. You'll have to free-hand your corners when you paint, but it's better than free-handing the whole thing. If that makes sense.
The template worked fairly well. I did have to go back and touch up in some spots, and the lines aren't razor perfect, but then again, neither am I. Smashing.
I picked up the gold hammered knobs, or the 'sparkly knobs' as they are known to the 5-year-old set, at Hobby Lobby for the ubiquitous 50% off.
And as a final touch I painted out the inside using the left over ceiling paint.
It would be bad if I decided to keep this for myself right? Luckily for the girls its a tad small for me, so it is all theirs.
Makes me happy to see a list with so many lines through it.
Come up with functional floor plan
Paint walls/ceiling/trim
Paint dresser (new hardware too) Progress
Update vanity (maybe some fun color or hardware)
Find curtains and add trim
Add a rug and new bedding Progress
Hang art and create some personalized pieces Progress
Find/Install new light fixture (buh bye ceiling fan)
Reupholster chair and possibly add comfy floor cushions
Find/Make lampshade(s)
Elizabeth Baumgartner, The Little Black Door
