So I've shown you two projects from the boudoir already: the farmhouse bed, and the rope shelves. Because we completed this redo back in September, I'm going to limit the in-depth info to those two projects, but I just wanted to do a quick before and after of each half of the room to wrap up the redo with a nice fancy ribbon. With scissor-edge curled ends, of course.
Big picture stuff first. Just an FYI, here is a severely not-to-scale mock up of the fh bedroom floor plan:
Before of the bed side of the room:
Cool grey walls, loooooow bed, and stock ikea night stands. Passable, but a little too...dorm room.
After of the bed side of the room:
Deep, dark newburg green walls. Recently built bed newly stained, and farmhouse bedside tables. Mmm mmm good.
A few details about that half of the room. (Yes those are my stuffed animals. Yes, I can't sleep without them. Yes, when Mike first started sleeping over I pretended like I just happened to still have them and they were totally like no bid deal. I told him he could toss them on the floor to get them out of the way and pretended like I was too cool for school. I SO wasn't.)
ANYWAYS, those bedside tables. I mentioned them in the first bedroom post, and after I built them I painted them all white back in February 2011. Here they are pre-
They were never great. I wasn't so hip to the furniture painting scene then (I am indebted to sites like Perfectly Imperfect and Centsational Girl for bringing me up to speed) and I never sealed them after the latex paint. Stuff was always sticking to the top. As in, I'd lay a magazine (I'm a magazine FIEND) down when I went to bed and the next morning when I picked it up, the back cover left a thin coat on the nightstand. Four months after painting. Not bueno. I also made the mistake of painting all surfaces of the nightstand and drawer which equaled STICKY CITY USA. I practically had to prop my foot against the nightstand for leverage when pulling out the drawer. Here is the best before pic I have of them painted (I curse my non-pic taking pre-blogging self!):
Needless to say, I was ready to banish those suckers for scrap. However, in a stroke of goodwill, I decided to give re-finishing a go. I sanded the bejesus out of every surface and probably went through a job pack of 40 grit sanding pads. And if you remember my mantra, SANDING IS BORING. YOU CANNOT EVEN LISTEN TO PODCASTS WHILE SANDING BECAUSE IT IS TOO LOUD, you'd understand how much I disliked doing it.
It was not a fun process, but once I got going I gained steam and would not let those hunks of wood defeat me. After sanding as much as possible, I decided to stain the tops with the Minwax English Chestnut and spray painted the remainder with Krylon Dover White spray paint. Thankfully, I knew better than to paint the bottoms of the drawers. They did not come out perfectly. They are not flawless. But hey, the room is dark and they are covered on two sides by walls and one side by mattress. For
The light above my nightstand is a spray painted find from Mike's grandfather's office in their old house that was torn down recently. (Side note, those Christmas lights are there only for Christmas. When it's the season, I like it to be the season EVERYWHERE I look.)
The mirror on the right is also a find from that old house. I spray painted it Krylon Sun Yellow and, inspired by this Martha Stewart Living article, I E-6000 glued some jute rope to the inside border (Same rope from the rope shelves!). I was a little worried (and so was Mike) about the yellow being too cray-cray in there, but it's grown on me.
So, we still need something va-va-voom above the bed (future project perhaps??), but so far we are smitten with this half of the bedroom.
Have you ever dismissed a refinish only to end up tackling the project and ending up victorious??
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