Another Antique Window and Progress on the Cozy Guest Bedoom

Even though our guest bedroom isn't finished as of yet I thought I would show you the progress so far. Before Christmas I made this wall treatment for above the bed- I made some fabric flowers and hot glued them to an old antique window then hung the window with some ribbon I had.

Here is the disaster area before: That was one huge piece of office furniture- the room is tiny so we had to sell it. We needed to have a bed in there.

If you look closely on your left there is a closet with a door. I took the door off and put up a drape

This is the drape- it was a great way to work with small space- where the bed is now there wouldn't be any way to open the door. I got the drape for $5.00 on clearance at Wal-Mart.

Here is the bed and my new wall treatment! I can't wait to paint this room... I still can't decide on a color so if you have any ideas shoot them my way! So far I'm thinking the colors in this room are brown, yellow and cream.

Antique Window Memo Board

A couple months ago I sold my old magnet board that wasn't fitting in with my style anymore and I wanted to have a cork board and dry erase board anyway, so it had to go. 

Since then I have been trying to come up with ways to use what I have to replace it. I came across a blog a few weeks ago that had the idea to take a three paned window and turn it into a memo board- I wish I could find that blog again but I haven't been able to.

It just so happens that I have some old antique windows with three panes! So I gathered up my supplies and went to work- I got a yard of fabric, some cork board, push pins, and ribbon. The total for all of those supplies was around $15.00. The rest of the supplies I already had on hand. 

Here is the window:

I cut out one of the glass panes that was broken and removed the caulk:

Be careful with your razor blade... :/

This is the fabric that I chose. I'm a sucker for Damask patterns...

And here we are all finished. I didn't show you the step-by-step method  of how I did everything because well, it just wasn't the best way to go about it. ;)

I love the hardware and the chippy paint!

 

This is the the top:

 

 This is the cork board section:

 

This is a glass window that is original, I left it in and put fabric behind it so you could see the dry erase marker:

This is what it looked like before:

This is now:

 I love it!

The Antique Desk/Vanity Project

Last week I showed everyone this desk.

I asked you all to take a look and it and help me decide what to paint it-- surprisingly quite a few people said "Robin Egg blue with brown glaze" Now, how did you know that's secretly what I wanted to paint it??

When I first discovered all of these wonderful home decorating/thrifting blogs a couple months ago, I came across this dresser. I LOVED it and I wanted a piece similar to it. This was going to be a big step for me... Painting a pretty permanent piece of furniture a COLOR! As you probably already know my standby is always white. 

So, yesterday I took the plunge into the world of color! I painted this $40.00 antique desk from the 1920's to 1930's (I should probably call it a vanity because that's really what it is) Then I distressed it and glazed it. I used Sausha at {Show & Tell}'s method to glaze my piece and I LOVED how easy it was!!! Really, for all of you first timers out there- do THIS method.

The paint is actually the same color waiting to go on my bedroom wall, it is the PERFECT color.

It's called Sonata by Behr.

I am still getting used to it. It's pretty bold and not like any of my other pieces but I do adore it. <3

Here we are BEFORE:

This pad was being held on by one lonely little screw- YAY! :)

 First coat...

Some distressing with my palm sander...

 I spray painted the hardware with RustOleum gloss black then went over it with some clear polyurethane

For some reason the chair looks blue-er than the desk in this picture. It's not, I promise.

 

Before:

After:

Linking up to: 

Primitive & Proper
Domestically Speaking 
Less-Than-Perfect Life of Bliss

The Nursery

Before our little miracle was born we painted and added some chair rail to his room. We wanted the sex of our baby to be a surprise so we didn't know what we were having. Choosing colors for the room were a little difficult because I didn't want the room to be all pastel colors. So I went with a chocolate brown color that I love and a neutral yellow color that I have all over my house. I separated the two colors with a chair rail- thankfully this room is small so we didn't have to buy a lot of it. Here is the before: 

 Now, I already told you once already about the previous owners of our home but allow me to once again vent to you how annoyed and confused I was when I looked at these walls. Once again, only two of the four walls were painted and poorly I might add. Not one, not three, not four, but two. It just doesn't make a lick of sense to me. 

Now here we are in the process of all the finishing touches- my handy hubby was installing the ceiling fan when he posed for this picture. 

We scored this fan for $5.00 at D.I. and it works wonderfully! This room is small but it gets extremely hot in the summer so we thought it best to have a good fan in it for better circulation.

A co-worker gave me these cute curtains:

You'll find that most of the things for this room were extremely cheap or free. Trevor didn't have a job at the time so things were tight. I don't believe we spent more than $50 dollars when we made over this room. Furniture included. The tall dresser and nightstand were my hubby's, the yellow glider was purchased when we had just gotten married. We picked it up for $70.00 brand new at NPS (one of my other most FAVORITE places to score deals)

 I found this star at Big Lots for $14.00- It was definitely a splurge but I just HAD to have it, it was blue though so I was a little worried. But I think deep down I knew we were having a boy. I'm glad we had a boy. ;)  
I bought 6 8x10 frames at Target for .75 cents each on clearance. They were an ugly gold-ish color so I spray painted them white and sanded them down so they looked antiqued. 

The crib and bedding was a hand-me-down from one of my older sisters.

 Sorry if the pictures are weird angles. Like I said, this room is pretty small so photographing it is difficult. 

Here is the finished product:

 

The nursery has since changed and I will be posting those updates in another post.