One more thing....

Are you sick of the master bedroom yet? Well, just bear with me on one more thing and then we will get on with the cleaning of the closets. =) I mentioned to hubby that our room needed a few maps, so he said to mount one on some of the leftover sheet metal. Great idea! He printed a great vintage map for me and I just drew on "Our Journey to Happily Ever After." The journey starts in the state of our births....
....and travels to the state of our first meeting. It makes a stop in the state of our first home and ends (at least for now) in the state we now reside. I just Mod Podged it on the metal and then hubby added all the "pretty" screws and a piece of plywood behind to steady it. I'm slowly working on more photo books to chronicle our travels as a married couple. They will be added to the stack of those already in the wash tub there. Once again, let me say how much I LOVE decor that means something--it's so much more "meaningful" than the generic stuff you can buy in the store. =)

Here is a little better picture of what else we did with the corrugated metal. I really think my husband was pretty creative with it here. The cool thing is that this nightstand looks great from all sides, so I can switch it up for a little variety.

One more little look at the map. I've had my fun for the day, now I really must wash the girls hair, make dinner for tomorrow and tidy the nest. Thanks for journeying with me! Happy trails to you, til' we meet again!

Master Bedroom, part 2

I showed you in recent post, what we did for our 15th anniversary. I am really, really enjoying the new cottage look in here. It's more relaxed and casual and very simple. It's also a little more masculine--and I do have a male person living here with me. =)

The only thing we were missing was a nightstand. Truthfully, we don't really need one with drawers--I know this will sound funny, but I have a lot of empty or almost empty drawers and cabinets around here. I don't like "stuff." Anyway, I suggested that an old crate or spool would make a nice nightstand, so my wonderful, talented husband got right on that. I was thinking that small would be nice, but I guess in a man's world things are bigger. I love it, but he better behave, because the "crate" is just about big enough to ship him away in.
I gave the whole thing a coat of mustard yellow paint and then "graywashed" over that. Hubby helped me design a logo and we incorporated the "21" from the day we were married and also the brand of love we package. =) In case you missed it, the month is on the mirror and the year on the headboard.
The nightstand is on casters and there is a shelf hidden on the side. I love how he used the metal accents. Very industrial. =)

I dug up some of our old love letters and tied them with twine as a final touch. I still have a "spring to-do list" but, with this crossed off, it's getting shorter all the time. I've been knocking out some things, like kitchen cabinet cleaning and touch up painting along the way--it feels good and now when spring really comes, we can head outside! I want to say here how much I appreciate all my husband's hard work on this. There were a few mornings where he was up and at his "real" job by 6am, yet still working on this in the evenings-not to mention preaching here and there along the way. He's really amazing--guess I'll keep him--but if not, I do have that shipping crate.

Fluffing the chicks room!

A few months back, Kaite got a little toddler bed....off craigslist of course. I had intentions to paint it all along, but it was cold and I procrastinated. Her bed is in Kayla's room, so whatever color she and I chose would have to go blend with Kayla's things. The blonde wood was not doing that with the dark wood on Kayla's bed and the dresser.

Kaite wanted blue, so we chose a bright, fun turquoise. Kayla was growing tired of all the pastels and her bedding set also had the "knobby disease" so we used this as an excuse to do a little update.
Here is the old version. Nothing wrong with it, but I have 4 girls and I have to admit, I was weary of all the pink. I showed them some red and turquoise and tried to use my influence in that direction. Didn't work. They wanted HOT pink and turquoise.

Target had HOT PINK RUFFLES!!! Taget had a whole bed-in-a bag of hot pink ruffles. Target had a whole bed-in-a-bag full of hot pink ruffles ON CLEARANCE! $19.98! It was our lucky day!

She chose some fun bright fabric scraps and I recovered her hanging photo boards.

The lamp got shot with the same paint as Kaite's bed and the shade got a few new embelishments too.

Even the laundry basket did not escape the paint can!

This anniversary was for the birds!

Hubby and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary this week. Since we just got back from a trip to DC, we elected to work on a project instead of doing something special--turns out, the project WAS special.

We needed a new mattress. Boring. I decided that it would be less boring if I "needed" a new bedroom set as well.
Maybe a few new wall decorations would be in order too. =)

So, our anniversary was spent working in the garage. I wanted barn wood for the headboard. We looked at some that they wanted $300 for-- old things are valuable, I guess. Finally, we found some for $20. Yes!

Speaking of old things and value, Rick used this OLD table saw to cut the boards. It belonged to my Grandpa Hayford. I would say it's at least 75 years old. Pretty cool, huh?

The dresser set we had for the last 12 years was just a cherry wood veneer, so we also had to find a dresser to refinish. That would be my job. We located a pine one at Idaho Youth Ranch that was fairly easy to strip since it just had a couple of poly coats. The photo above is inside the drawers. They are lined with what looks like old newprint, but it's really part of the wood. I love getting things out of the drawers!

Once we got it down to the bare wood, I whitewashed it a dark gray. The gray paint we got in a gallon on the "mistake table" at Lowe's. It was a mistint, so cost us $5 instead of $25. I mixed about 70% water to 30% paint for the "graywashing". Then I painted on the birds, sanded a bit more, and finally gave it a coat of poly to protect it and give it just a little shine.

We also got new knobs that really made it "pop" and I painted a "2" in the corner of the mirror frame for the month we were married. I had a stencil for the basic bird, but the vines and numbers are freehand.

I listed the old set on craigslist for $375 to which my hubby was aghast. It sold the first day though--in fact, when they saw that I was trading it for unfinished thrift store junk," they had mercy on me and gave us an extra $25! =) LOL

I picked up an old galvanized trough and painted it mustard yellow like I painted the lamp on the headboard. It stores books, magazines, and yarn. I also painted the birds on the canvas there on the wall.

You've seen this corner of our room before--only new item would be the music canvas. I just printed off some of the songs from our wedding and modge podged them on a canvas. I like my decor to mean something, not just be pretty alone. I thought all the numerology ect, turned out pretty sweet!

And there is the headboard again. We used the same paint and same technique for finishing it as for the dresser. Rick got the light at Grover's and I gave it a nice antique mustard finish. Hubby wired it in and I must say, I REALLY, REALLY, LOVE the finished product. The "97" on the side is for the year we were married. It was a little hard to get realistic pictures of everything, it really almost has a demin look to it. I think it rivals a Polo or Nautica look--maybe even Pottery Barn. If you google it, these headboards are selling for about $1500--and I like mine better! The complete cost of the headboard was less than $50. The dresser about $125. We have wood and plenty of paint leftover so hubby will (soon, I hope) be making me some end table(s).

I LOVE what we did for our 15th! We are so blessed--working together was so fun--as is living together! =)

This post is a little old now, but since I am still getting action and pins on this project, I am going to link 'er up for Finished Object Friday. I always enjoy the fun and yummy thing Charity and the others share here.http://charitree.blogspot.com/2012/03/finished-object-friday-smores-cake.html

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