The past 5 weeks or so, I have enjoyed working on our guest/baby room. It has been a process to kick Doug out of here, but come January, the desk, the mystery man who sits at it, and his hundreds of books full of gross pictures will be gone and a crib will come in its place.
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A look behind the scenes...
Curtains: Did you know you can get very cute and cheap fabric from Ikea? Of course it was vertical stripes and I wanted horizontal, but after reading this blog post- the problem was easily fixed with a little sewing together. Can you tell? Say no.
Paint: I found this baby room and have been crushing on it ever since. I love the 1 dark blue/ 3 white walls. A great change from the full baby blue look it was.
Bed: Brand new from Craigslist. (Great deal.)
Lamps: $7 from Ikea.
Bed: Brand new from Craigslist. (Great deal.)
Lamps: $7 from Ikea.
Headboard: This was my first project for the room and it gave me the "crafty high" I needed to continue. It was so easy. If you are interested here is a good tutorial on how to do it. I found a large piece of plywood in our garage (hopefully we won't be having anymore hurricanes anytime soon) and traced a pattern on to it. The Douger was nice enough to stop studying for a second to cut it for me.
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Next, pad it with 2 inch foam (I bought it at Hobby Lobby- 40% off coupon of course). It looks like a little foam mattress you would take camping to sleep on. Cut it to fit the board and use a spray adhesive to make it stick. Next, cover it in quilters batting, pull it tight around the back and staple gun it.
(No skill involved whatsoever.)
Lastly, repeat with your fabric (1 1/2 yards, 40% off as well): lay it flat, pull it around the back, and staple gun. And whala! A really cute headboard.
We were given this great armoire this month. With a little primer, gray paint, and some silver spray paint for the hardware, it fits in nicely and will make a perfect storage for the baby clothes. I really wasn't looking forward to pulling out all the baby clothes, washing, and organizing them, but I can hardly wait now to get some bins and get to work.
That is about it for now. There is nothing on the walls yet, but someday these cute pictures will hang above the crib.
21 comments:
You are so fancy. Adorable. Thanks for the inspiration.
Fun! I can't believe that you did all of that (almost) by yourself!
This room looks SO GOOD! I am thoroughly impressed.
That looks fantastic!! I love the colors you've chosen. It looks so inviting and cheerful. Love the headboard!!
This is so darling. I have that baby room saved on my desktop for future inspiration... if we ever have a house (or a baby). :)
This is sooo fabulous! I love that room! And I'm totally making an incredible headboard like that if I ever find the talent! Haha - this is great.
I love it! I'm impressed, good job.
I am totally impressed. Way to go super mom!
Annie!!! You are amazing! It looks like a totally new piece of furniture!! I am so happy that you were able to use it. Yea!!!!
That is awsome! I am so empressed!!! K, where did you get those darling pictures??? I LOVE THEM!! Please hang them up.. They go so well with everything in that room!
You are always amazing me. I will live by my motto W.W.A.D. forever more!!
The pictures are from a classic piano book called, "My Picture Book of Songs" (authors Dalton, Ashton, Young) I had that is falling apart. I color copied both sides of these pages and put all the pages into a 3 ring binder.
You are so talented, everything looks fabulous!
You've done such a good job! Your sweet baby on the way is so lucky to have such a wonderful mom to make him a sweet room!
Wow! You are quite crafty, you just do it all! I love the head board; and really just the whole baby room. We don't really have a room yet for our baby...I'll probably have to start working on that!
Congrats on finishing! I'd love to see it in person. I really am so amazed that you did all of that on your own. Very inspiring! When we move and I have spaces to work with, where hopefully we're not quite so space limited, I'm definitely coming back to refer to your post!
Hey Annie! Totally blog stalking here. :) I think your room is so nicely done. I'm very impressed. I love the headboard idea. I'm going to have to try that soon.
Darling! You are a talented gal.
WOW!!! You've come a long ways from when mom let us redecorate our upstairs bedrooms!!! That looks GORGEOUS! I'm so jealous! What a fun room! I told myself if I get to have another baby some day that I am totally re-doing my baby room! I'll have you come help. LOVE IT!
Look at you and your bad crafty self! The room looks great, and those pictures are AWESOME. How exciting!
Great job, Annie! I want to be crafty like you one day when I grow up and buy a house. Are you for hire? ;)
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