Nursery Furniture Makeover

I'm a big fan of using old furniture, even in a baby's room, opposed to furniture designed for a baby. This piece of furniture I absolutely love the details and legs, and I know will be used in my home forever. Even though it was a handy me down, I really love it. Its been painted white, yellow, and green.

This piece of furniture I found on the side of the road. I added pink damask paper to the back, and pink knobs. I realized while I was repainting it, that I don't really like the top part, with the old fashion rungs. And even though this room is quite large, I realize the height doesn't really work.

And now the after! This was the changing table but I decided to move things around a bit. I painted it grey, and spray painted the hardware yellow. I let the rust color come through.

And I took off the top shelf part of this piece, and added the changing table pad, and new cover.

This crate storage I got at my local thrift store for $15. It was originally that super light non wood color? Do you know which one I mean, like not white but not wood? (cricket cricket) Well anyway I spray painted it dark grey.

So what do you think?

 

 

Come back tomorrow for the final reveal! yay I'm excited!

The Nursery

My daughter Kennedy moved into our old room. And if you followed along with our master bedroom makeover, then you'll know I never really like our bedroom. It just never felt right.

When we moved Kennedy into her new room, I didn't love her stuff in this room either. Even though I liked this brown color, I guess I don't like living with this color. There's a difference of course. 

So this was Kennedy's nursery before we painted.

That's her...busy playing. 

Its a pretty big sized room. I still hate how everything is pressed up against the walls though. But I do think this open space in the middle is great for playing.

Like I said...busy busy busy

That HUGE castle thing was a gift that is about 3 feet wide, and was already built when they gave it to us. She doesn't use it much now to be honest, but I"m sure she will as she gets older. 

I painted 3 coats of ultra white by behr. I also painted all the trim, the windows and the doors. I immediately liked the green furniture better. (ps I painted the furniture this color, I've just gotten sick of it, and it got a makeover too.)

Even the castle doesnt seem to be quite as loud with the white walls

And this is where my daughter slept for almost a week. Between painting the walls and the furniture I decided to take my time and do it over a weeks time. This way she wasn't sleeping in the fumes. Plus...I work while she naps or sleeps, doing a baby's room is surprisingly difficult when the baby is in your house.

Anyway...I know it may look a little sterile right now with the white walls, but there's lots coming up.

Tomorrow is painted furniture
Then Friday I'll show you the whole room. Including 2 gallery walls, bookshelves, new bedding and rugs and accessorizing. So don't worry it's all coming together, and you'll get to see it within the next couple days.

I'm sure you're all ready just to see it done!

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A Desk Makeover

I found this desk at habitat for humanity. When I saw it I immediately knew I wanted it, and I didn't even plan on having an office for blogging back then. I quickly found someone to ask how much it was, because unlike everything else in the store there was no price.

I love how curvy this piece is. And the detail, and the original hardware (swoon). The woman told me it had just been dropped off, the drawers weren't opening because it was summer and it was kept in storage. She said "normally I would charge $80, but because I don't know if it'll open $1."

Well obviously, I took it. $1 for a real piece of furniture. I was even thinking I kind of liked the green, it was different than anything I have, and maybe I could keep it that way.

It was a little too beat up in the green, so I decided to paint it a deep blue, its Behr Distance. This color makes it look a lot lighter than it is in real life. Even with the light pouring in its much darker, and moody and sophisticated.

The detail is so great.

And then I thought maybe I would just keep the gold hardware...but its also pretty beat up.

So I spray painted them this delicious grey called Satin Granite

I love that it makes this very old piece look updated and more modern.

And again just to remind you of the before

And the after

I couldn't be happier with it. I love that it gives this room a huge pop of color.

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Painting the office!

This is what the nursery looked like when my daughter was using it

But since we moved her to her newer bigger room, it was used like this

We moved these bookcases from our bedroom in the makeover, and they landed here

And this dresser holds some of my husbands clothing

And this is the view out the door.

I really loved this color combo for the nursery

So my "plan" was to paint all the walls and trim and picture frame molding white. Then on the top half of the room add some very light grey painted stripes going horizontally.

This is the first coat of white

You can definitely still see the grey and yellow coming through

And then the second coat of paint.

And then a third on the bottom

Can you tell it was greyish still on the bottom?

I painted 2 coats on the top, and 3 coats on the bottom. And then I ran out of white paint. And the grey was still coming through on the bottom portion of the wall. hmmm...

Then because we have old walls mathematically I thought it would be really difficult to do stripes. Even more difficult because of the molding in the middle of the room. Even more difficult because I don't like math, and I'm more of an imperfection is ok kind of girl. 

Imperfection is not ok with stripes, and  I didn't want wonky stripes.

Ok. So I'm creative. I can get myself out of this. Without buying more paint. But now my walls were just white and I wanted to show off the picture frame molding a little bit at least.

So these were the paints that I got at Home Depot in the Oops section. $2 each. I originally bought them for my stripes, and the one I didn't chose I could find another use for.

I mulled over the choices for 10 minutes

In the end I went with the lighter grey color. I really wanted the room to feel airy and light. And I wanted to add in colorful things, but I thought the darker color would make the room feel too weighted down.

Here it is in progress. The painted part on the left was my little angel helping me

2 coats of the grey went on. BTW...at this point I had painted for 3 hours the night before, and then 2 hours the next day to do the grey and I was so TIRED.

And here it is finished ( all the stuff is in the middle of the room as I got these pictures, so they are a little funny, but they show the rooms color)

Fresh

 Light

Airy

Just begging for pops of color & inspiration

 I cant wait to show you all the next step of this makeover, I'm really excited and proud of it!

So what do you think of the new colors? I'm really happy with the look, have you painted something recently that you are excited about?