Headboard Love

There were no tears this time! (if you are wondering what the heck that means, please check out THIS post)

Here is the finished headboard and I L.O.V.E, be my valentine-hugs and kisses, LOVE IT!

The whole headboard will be about 1ft taller once it’s hung. It is just resting on the box springs in this picture since I was too impatient excited to wait.

I wish you could actually see the crystals I used for the tufting, but they seem to be camera shy. I swear I tried all but hanging from the ceiling to get a good picture and it was.not.happening.

Here is the best I could get.

The new fabric is so soft to the touch and has the most amazing texture. Bonus, it is such a perfect neutral so I can change my mind which happens A LOT all I like and it will still work.

Total cost was less than $70! (more than half of that was for FOAM!)

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Mostest Awesomeness Headboard….Maybe

Hi, I’m CLB and I have been living without a headboard for 6 months now.

(insert the Awwww’s and shameful look HERE.)

I’ve wanted a headboard like this

But didn’t want to pay a BAZILLION dollars for it! So what is a girl to do… DIY it!

I headed to the lumber store with two males of the engineering sort in tow, BIG MISTAKE. People, if you want to be out of the store in less than 5 hrs, (full of structural debate) I suggest going alone.

There I picked up this board for around $6 for a 4X8 sheet and had the nice people cut it down to the width of my mattress and then in half (to fit in my car)

Once home I put the two sheets together with 5 (3 on the back, 2 on the front) of these metal brackets

At this point the “inspector” will probably visit to make sure you’re doing things properly.

Inspector- “Ahh, I see you’re working on something here, is it for me?”

Inspector-“You just keep going, I think you might be doing it right”

Inspector-“Lets just go with this, if I put my head right here, every time you turn the screwdriver I get pet, It’s WIN WIN!”

It’s hard to go on after that but here we go.

I then measured and cut my molding. (By I, I mean one of the engineering sort I spoke of earlier)

Then measure around the edges for molding placement and adhere your foam with spray adhesive.

Then cover with batting.

Then cover with your material and staple around the edges.

THEN, discover the nails for the trim are just slightly too short and decide to take it into the room and hold it behind the bed to see how much you love it and instead………

burst into tears saying you hate it because the fabric that looked good in different light now C.L.E.A.R.L.Y has green and pink stripes that you HATE.

Sooooooooo

While I had hoped to have an awesome headboard to show, instead I have a bazillion staples to remove before putting on my new fabric and posting pictures. (This weekend!)

 

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Black or White?

This is my recent acquisition

Can you tell I have a huge small thing for curves?

Sooooooooo now the question is, do I leave it white or paint it black? The gold background HAS TO GO but I’m not quite sure what to do with the rest of it.

It will be living in my currently unfinished office/craft room which has a black, white, pink color scheme going on.

So what do you think?

Curvy Leg Desk

For the longest time I’ve had an ugly art desk and always wanted something pretty.

Enter craigslist.

Craigslist is really a rollercoaster, you’re up and excited with the perfect find and then down when you find out someone stole it from you. If you keep at it though, you’ll find a treasure.

I found this beautiful desk

Sure, it was a little banged up

but look at those legs. It just needed a little makeup.

Everyone looks good in black and she is no different.

Please forgive my office, it’s not finished and renting means no paint and in my case oak colored molding LOL.

New Nightstand

I have to warn you now, you are going to have to use your imagination reading this post. Be ready!

Remember this little beauty and my retail guilt?

The shocker, I loved it so much I considered paying retail for another one!! You are all shocked right? (I was) Turns out the only one left had just been put on hold by someone and while I considered devious things to acquire it, it just wasn’t happening.

I spent the next several months hitting these in search of another nightstand (or lets just be honest, anything that caught my eye…… which was A LOT. I love yard sales!!!)

The only thing that wasn’t showing up was a nightstand!

Finally a few weeks ago, there it was. I’m not even honestly sure if it was really for sale or just being used to display things on. However, as I’m hauling it to the car and yelling back “how much is this?” I heard the wonderful music of “uhh 5 dollars”. Yes, please and THANK YOU.

I completely forgot to take a before picture but it looked something like this

HA HA HA, I warned you that the imagination would be required for this post.

And here it is with some makeup on.

Those curvy legs make my heart smile.

I’m not completely finished with this project, I have a few touches I plan to add to tie it in with the other nightstand. I also plan to add something in that hole there, but what I don’t know. I was thinking a basket, but I’m not sure a basket has the same “glam” as those curvy legs.

Suggestions??

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I Feel Guilty!

I feel the need to visit a confession booth, home decor style.

*deep breath*

I’ve purchased a nightstand for my bedroom……… AT RETAIL!!!!!!!

I honestly can’t remember the last time I paid retail price for a piece of furniture, or anything for that matter, but it happen this weekend. I’m still a little shocked that it actually made it to my car without the cheap voice screaming “REALLY, retail, REALLY!!!!”

I have to admit, I still have the receipt “just incase”.

Here is the lovely beauty that has caused this break in temptation.

*Warning* Curves ahead (hahahahahaha)

I think it’s adorable, I just love the style and couldn’t walk past it and leave it there. It’s just perfectly me.

What I don’t love is that it is essentially a fairly cheap piece of furniture, yet cost way more than I think it should. The crafty part of me knows I could paint a piece of furniture just like it, but the internet searcher/thrift store searcher/garage sale searcher in me knows I’ve never seen anything with this shape.

So, the point to this post is for you lovely people to tell me how smart it is to keep it :) or give me an option for creating it myself.

Tufted Ottoman

This is my before picture *Warning, it’s scary!*

Don’t you just love the bigger than your head flowers?

This was a hand me down (FREE!) and didn’t look like this till the HB flopped down on it one day. RIIIIIIPPPPPPP.

Some people might have decided it was ready for the trash at this point…… you know I considered it till I priced large ottomans! Not only was the price not happening, I couldn’t seem to find another ottoman that was the perfect sofa/foot height so it had to stay.

It hid in shame till the day I found this

By the way, that’s a faux fur coat, no animals were harmed in the making of this post, or coat!

Yep, that’s right……I found almost a whole roll of upholstery fabric at goodwill for $9 in the exact color I had wanted. I may or may not have laughed to myself and said “not anymore” in my head when asked by another goodwill shopper “Oh, they have fabric here?”.

The ottomans time had come, I flipper her over, unscrewed the legs and pulled out a MEEEEEEELLLLLIIIOOOONNN of these

I was finally ready to start the beautification.

I knew I wanted to tuft the top and asked the HB if he would drill me a couple holes for tufting. That may have been a mistake, because what I figured would take about 5 minutes ended up being HOURS as he mapped out several different tuft layouts in AUTOCAD. Yes that’s right ladies, in a man’s world you need AUTOCAD to tuft.

  This is my end result

 

Beautiful, AND not a bit of sewing!

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Hope Chest Take 2

Busy Busy I have been.

I’m so glad the weather is turning the corner from Winter to Spring. I have such a love for spring flowers as they start peeking out of the ground, it’s just beautiful.

I’m sure you all remember the hope chest I had turned into a filing cabinet? I loved the idea, not the look so it became another check point on the “to do” list.

Speaking of, does your list ever seem to get shorter? I swear mine only grows, even when I check something off I come up with two things to fill the space. Never ending I swear!

Moving on……

I started the chest re-do by taping off the inside cedar portion of the chest to prevent overspray. I didn’t want to take the chance of having the lovely cedar smell covered by spray paint.

Did you notice the lovely Spring weather in the background? No hate please.

Pay no mind to my ghetto spray station, it works and thats all that matters.

I didn’t want to take a chance of having this disaster repeated so I decided to prime the piece first.

I am so glad I primed, there was no sanding and the paint went on so well and took less.

After giving it a few coats I decided to distress it a bit around the edges with my new luv

As a friendly reminder, don’t let your HB sneak out to your project when he decides it needs another coat of clear and it’s starting to get cold outside.

Yep, clear coat and chilly weather do not mix! HB has some sanding and refinishing in his near future to do! However since it’s just the lid I can show you the rest of the project.

It fits so much better with the rest of my office now (yes, I’m a bit of a black and white fan) though I have to admit, the craziness in my still isn’t sure if I want to keep it black or go ivory.