While Travis was home for a few weeks, I recruited him to help me paint my closet doors so I could finish the bedroom. The doors started out as wood, but I wanted a closet door makeover! I wanted to paint the doors a deep color as an accent for the white-walled room. Here's a before shot of the whole room, complete with one of the closet doors showing. We set the closet doors up one-by-one on this sawhorse. I wiped them down with a rag to make sure there was no remaining dry wall dust! We decided to use our paint sprayer for this project because we knew it would go faster! We were Continue Reading
Bedroom Renovation
Slowly but surely. That seems to be how my bedroom renovation is coming along. It started out with a tan wallpaper that had small daisies on it. It had nothing but a light bulb for a light fixture. The ceiling was made up of squares that seemed to have some mildew on them. The room wasn't awful, but it wasn't what I wanted. I pictured it much different. I really wanted to paint this room. I began taking the wallpaper off, only to realize there were SIX layers of wallpaper -- all different colors and patterns. One of the wallpaper patterns was of men on horses, I assume fox Continue Reading
DIY Crate Nightstand
(This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for supporting my blog.) I've been waiting and waiting for us to finish our guest bedroom. Everything was done, except there was no nightstand. I didn't want to spend a lot of money for such a small piece of furniture that wouldn't be used all that often anyway. Finally, I decided just to make my own! I think it turned out great! Here's what I used: Two wooden crates (I got mine from Michael's, but you can also get some on Amazon) Wood stain A paintbrush Gorilla Glue First, I stained both crates with a dark Continue Reading