Updo on the Master

Have you ever been on a date where the person you're with is reeeeeallllllyyyyyy nice? Yah, that's kind of how I felt about the renovated master bedroom. Lots there to work with.... just no spark, ya know?

So, this week we hunkered in and got busy pushing furniture around and making some changes. Casey (my niece) and I did a lot of shoving....but I am very happy with the result!

First things first, dresser placement. Turning the two small bedrooms into one gave us this mid-section in the completed room where I have wanted to put my Goodwill lamps, TV and lowboy forever but how? That bed is the size of Indo-China! Shove, shove, shove.

Ahhhhhh, much better.



Highboy behind the door, capped with my favourite picture of my boys.





























....and the king-sized (big-as-Texas) bed on the far wall. Yes, Virginia I did manage to hide a small nightstand back there, but don't look in the drawers. ;)

So what to do with those windows? There are two of them, they match, they have ugly blinds and they now flank the lowboy......hmmmmm maybe the best defence is an offence here. Accept the configuration and flank drapery panels on each of the windows. If you can't beat em...join em.

The last piece of the puzzle was provided by my massage therapist's Momma who was getting rid of her teen-hood vanity table. It was pretty rough and beat up but it has a lot of history (it even has her and her then 15 year old boyfriend and her names carved in one of the arms). I gave it a thin whitewash and paired it with my bargain chair from Home Sense ($25.00 - Holla!).

No I did not paint over the "Ellie + Darryl" - who would do that?



So, that's as far as I've gotten in here. Bedding to be sourced. I have huge stencilling dreams and little talent for that back green wall behind the large-as-a-planet bed......coming soon.

Hopefully.

The UGLIEST Dresser no more.....

So, you remember this chic, right?

Remember her having her mirrors removed? One of which turned into this?

Well....finally.....I got more than 20 minutes to get at this project so we went gung-ho this weekend my neice and I. I love Maya, she is such a partner in crime. :) Thanks for all your attention to nooks and crannies Miss M!

Let's get ready to rumble..............

First we primed the entire piece with Zinsser primer to cut some of the 30+ years of storage stench and vacuumed the whole piece out. Wiped down the drawers and emptied some Febreeze into the area.....Gramma was obviously a smoker :)

Then we painstakingly added 3 coats of Rustoleum's Heritage White...to all those detailed crannies.

I mentioned my lovely neice painting all the crannies right?

After sufficient drying time (DIYers = 30 minutes), we sprayed the knobs with Aqua Painter's Touch spraypaint by Rustoleum to match this little roadside attraction I had finished a month ago or so... they will be in the same familyroom. The dresser will be the new TV armoire once I get the flat screen mouted above it....projects, projects, projects.

So after much toil, this is the final product. You never see furniture with this kind of detail anymore....and maybe that's a good thing (LOL) but we're proud of it. I may soften the knob colour with a bit of silver to tone it down a tad but she turned out lovely. Just a quick final spray of clearcoat so that I can wipe it down (which in my house WILL happen) and we were finished. Now onto getting that flat screen TV mounted and getting this pretty sista in her new room!

Finally, she is completed. I'm kinda crushin' on her.

Because I love her....

For my sister's birthday in March I planned to redo her whole Master Bedroom. Although she had painted 2 walls a chocolate brown she had hit the decorating wall. My mission was to completely redo her room for as cheep cheep as possible.



I do really love you Jules & Steve.



My nieces and my Mom really worked like dogs to complete the whole makeover in 4 hours and 20 minutes FLAT!



Ahhhhh that colour is like tonic...that caramel and chocolate, the room is starting to look like a Caramilk bar.



BEFORE - used donated IKEA special....yukky pine.



....much better hey?



Now the room is starting to take shape!



A corner to curl up in.



It all makes sense.

The whole room in fact came in at just over $40.00 to redo. I gathered decor and pictures from her girlfriends, my closets and those that wished to donate towards the room, my Mom remade over a bed-in-a-bag set she already had. I haunted second hand stores for about a month and got a lamp, shoe organizer, decor items and craft papers at a steal. The only things actually bought for the room were new curtains and some paint. I remade the dresser over from a donation from our I.T. guy at work.

I have to say this was one of my favourite projects to date not only because it turned out so gorgeous but because it truly showed my sister and my BIL how much I love them.



Tears were present at the reveal which only cemented the notion that I already knew.... she loved it!