Before and after!

I am so excited about how these have turned out!!!!

Before

After

Let's see that again!!!!

Before

After

And once more just for the record and because I'm so excited about how they've turned out! Eat your heart out PHL!

Before

After

Here's the big chest of drawers - almost finished - just gotta put the handles on...

Close up view of the handles I bought on ebay...

Click here to see how I did it!

I'm linking to these 'parties'
Primitive and Proper
I made it without my hubby - Shanty2Chic
Remodelaholic

 

Bedroom furniture redo

Since we 'upgraded' to a King size bed, we needed to get a King size headboard for our bed. We saw one at Provincial Home Living that we loved, but didn't want to pay almost $1000 for, so instead of buying one, we decided that we'll sell our old bed (on e-bay) and then make a new one.

 I've been obsessively reading hundreds of blogs about making headboards and along the way decided that we should also do something with our bedside tables and chest of drawers to match the new bedhead.  Many of the DIY blogs also feature how to redo furniture. Since I fell in love with the black bed that we saw at PHL we decided to go with black - I'm hoping that it will bring an elegance to our room.

This is a little bit of the bed that we liked at PHL.
I was a bit sneaky and took the pic on my phone.
Not sure if you're allowed to take photos in store...

Bed in white at PHL

So our bedsides that are chipped and chewed - by our oldest child (not the dog) when he was getting teeth are getting painted and revamped to match the bed.

Bedside - Before

Chest of Drawers - Before

New handles - ebay!

So I began by taking the ipod out to the garage (I must have music to sing along to - Glee is the flavor of the month at the moment).

I cut some moulding and I liquid nailed it to the drawer fronts of the bedsides.

Then I puttied, sanded, primed and painted them.

Spray paint gives a smooth finish,
no brush marks and lines. 

This yellow thing is so handy.
My finger was getting so sore pushing
the nozzle thingie.

So now I'm waiting for them to dry so I can make the final finishing touches with some sandpaper and then put on the handles. Hoping to have them in our room tonight, I'm so over having a cardboard box for a bedside for the past week. So glad today has been a perfect Spring day so that I can paint!  

Will post the final pictures later when they are all finished. Can't wait!

Drawers all painted!

Busy times

We've had a very busy couple of weeks. Mark got a new job and resigned from his old job, we prepared our house for Mark's 40th Birthday party (with 70 guests!!!), put up a shed, had the party (will post on that one later), and Mark started his new job.

Pulling out a tree stump.

Adding a bit to the driveway so we can move the caravan away from the garage.

Using the whacker packer to whack the lilydale topping

Mark's new place of work.

We finally got ourselves a new mattress! Yay! Well over due and sooooooo nice to sleep in. We decided that we'd get an ensemble and that we might as well get a King size bed. So now we're in the process of re-decorating our bedroom. We painted it last year, so that part is fine, and so are the curtains (but gotta do some pelmets yet!) I bought new lamps last week and am on the look out for a nice light fitting for the ceiling.

I've been searching the internet (as I do) for ideas for a cheap headboard for our bed. Several blogs later, I've found what I want. And what I (with Mark's help) will make.  We're going to make our head board with an old door! Lie it on it's side and put on some posts, paint it and voila, a beautiful new bed! Well, I hope so anyway.  We're repainting our bedside tables and chest of drawers to match it too.  I know it might sound a bit ordinary... but I'm sure hoping that it will look good - it does in my mind anyway.

Stay tuned, pictures of Mark's 40th and our furniture making/restoring/repurposing adventures to come...