Monday, May 23, 2011

Tween Room Reveal

The Room has been done for a while now, but I am so busy packing, that I have not had a chance to show it to you.
    In case you missed it.....I am busy packing ...
Off to the beach in two days! LALALALALA!

I know, it doesn't take a whole lot to get me exited. But I can't wait!
The Princess and I are going to take the day tomorrow to celebrate the end of the schoolyear, as well as our homeschooling journey. (For now)
She is going to attend a wonderful charter school that just opened up a branch near us.
 But, more about that in another post. (Or not...)

Now, on to the room...

 The pink paint is Silk Ribbon by Behr Premium Plus.
That is the one with the paint and primer in one. We left the top lime green like in the old room, because I was lazy, and I thought it would look OK.

 The bedding is just from Walmart, and not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough and in my price range.
Do you remember the black Bureau from this post?
 The Eiffel Tower Vinyl is from Hobbie Lobby, and the posters came from my bathroom.

You know what that means, right? I see a bathroom makeover in my future...


This little shelf I've had forever...it has been in almost every room in the house now.
The little purses I've collected a few years back...also from my bathroom.




This stunning little black metal table was one of my very first Goodwill buys, a long, long time ago.
I have never really had a place for it, but now it has found its home. Isn't it pretty? I did not even do anything to it. 

 The opposite wall with hat hooks, and frame transformed into blackboard (from my laundry room)
Notice the empty window. I have sprayed the rod and rings silver, but am waiting for the right thriftstore find in window coverings.


You can read about the corner cabinet here and the vanity here
 The big black hooks with her jewelry on, were earlier Goodwill finds that we "shopped the house" for.
 The mirror was a donation by a friend, and used to look like this...

I sprayed it with ORB and rubbed it with silver.


One more wall to go...
The chicken wire hat, shoes and purse was a gift from a friend, who was cleaning house and getting rid of stuff in her garage. (yeah me!)
 The pink shoe I got at a flea market in South Africa when I visited back home a couple years back.
It was rusted metal, but I sprayed it gloss hot pink.

And lastly, the chandelier....
 It used to look like this....

Sorry about the overload of pictures, but I hope you get the idea.
So, basically the only things I bought especially for the new room, were the pink paint and the bedding.
What do you think?
"Grown up" enough for a wanna be Teen?

   Thanks for looking!
                                                                                                


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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Wild Thing...

I am so excited to share this latest addition to the Tween Room with you! I had so  much fun doing it.
Although I could not help imaginig someone shopping at Goodwill a few years from now, going, "What the heck was this person thinking?" 
LOL! Just kidding. This one has many more makovers left in her before she ends up at Goodwill....

In the sixteen years since I bought her as a raw pine corner cabinet, she has changed from Lilac, to dark brown stain, to white.
Now she was ready for something really different. 

Of course, the first thing that went on, was the zebra stripes on the sides.
 ...and the black stripes around the doors.
I put pink stripes with the black, and added some of the same wrapping paper that I used on the desk, with Modge Podge.

{Edited in after: LMBO....just saw now for the first time...Hubby in the background with just a towel around his waist! Luckily it was the big towel. ;-)  }



Added dots for the inside of the top, and a smaller zebra stencil for the top front.
Wild enough for you?......

 A wild look for a wild child...
 The room is done and will be revealed shortly.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Desk Redo Revamp

I am almost done with Princess' room. I can't wait to show it to you!


Maybe you remember this desk from my post here ....
                                                                                                               

It was for her room, to be used as a vanity, and it works wonderfully with all the space in the drawers.
We just had to tweak it a little to go with the "new" room.

Some Modge Podge and gift wrap, and the desk is ready to be part of the "Tween Room".





 As you can see, I sealed the top..
 This was a very important step, as my daughter's favorite game with  her friends is, what they call,
"Blind Makeovers".
Yes, it is exactly whatyou think it is....

I used the Minwax Wipe-On Poly. Waterbased. I have to say I am not too happy with this product. It leaves a yellowish tint, even though I read somewhere that the waterbased does not do this.

For now, it is good enough, though. I am sure that desk is going to need another make-over soon, anyway... 
Only a couple more pieces, and the room will be done...
Yeah!
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Oo La La...French Bureau

Hi There!

Remember me? I've been so busy lately , that I have not done any blogging. Plus I didn't have anything to blog about...
I'm sure you don't want to know about my boring little day to day now, do you? There's just a lot going on right now...changes, shifts, things to ponder...

BUT...
 I did promise that my daughter's bedroom is next, and that is exactly what I have been doing for the last 48 hours. Literally...that's all I've been doing. I get so obsessive when I start something. It consumes my life until its done. That is another reason I have been slowing it down lately. For my own sanity and the sanity of everyone around me....  

Back to Pretty Princess' bedroom...
She announced earlier this year that her room is too "babiesh", and since she is turning 11 in a couple months, she needs a "teenage" bedroom.
We decided on a Paris theme. I know...its been done a million times, but she likes the idea, and I like the black and white fleur de lis pattern.

Today I am just showing you how we changed a hand me down chest of drawers into a pretty french bureau.

A friend gave me this                                                                                                

I am just going to pretend that I did not, once again forget to take a before picture, ok?
This is her primed with Kilz spray primer.
Don't you just love her little legs? Or are they feet? Whatever, I love them.
Then I sprayed with Krylon satin black. I am using what I have on hand as far as possible, because among the many "things" that are keeping me busy, is purging.
I am so sick of the chaos of too much stuff.

Watch it! You better not say midlife crisis , or I might have to hunt you down and kill you.

What's that? Oh yea...I was telling you about the bureau...
I neglected to take pictures of the during. (Sounds better than forgot, right?)
So here she is..all done.

Voila!!
 Sprayed the hardware silver...... 
 added some white stencilling...
 
 and dry brushed the feet and some other raised parts with silver.
When I stood back to admire the finished work, she was all shiny and a little too Vegasy.
So I took the very fine steel wool and gave her a once over. Much better! 
I put the pillow in the picture, to give you a little taste of what is to come for the rest of the room...

I'll keep you posted!!!

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

YEAH ME!

Woo Hoo! Guess what? I have been featured by SJ at Homemaker on a Dime 's Recognition Day Thursday.
Well, actually , my grandfather clock was the one that was featured....

Remember this?
I was so bummed that it did not sell at the Barnsale, but now it is gracing the  entryway of my house, and I get to enjoy it every day.

Go check out SJ's blog at Homemaker on a Dime. Like the name says, she likes to decorate with little money, and she does it well!

Now off to start my daughter's bedroom!

See yah!
Suzanne
xoxo