Bedroom Reveal

After cleaning my house this weekend and having everything clean and put away, I took some photos of the house in its current state.

Today I am going to show you the master bedroom. Keep in mind, I have all of the work done, I just need to decorate. Problem is....I don't know what to do. I desperately need help. So if you have any creative ideas for me....send them my way!

Here are the "before" pics: Good thing I have some vision and can see beyond paint and and decor!!!

I started by ripping out the carpet and removing the wallpaper border:

Then came the not-so-fun part. PAINTING. I did have a little help. B came up from Okla and Kaci came over an afternoon to help me out.

I chose a steel grey/blue for the wall color. Its like a good pair of blue jeans, it matches anything :)

And now for the carpet! Some of the boyfriends buddies came up from Pueblo, Colo., to help out with tile and install the carpet! Thanks!!

And it's DONE!

And now for the finished product!! I chose mulitcolored floral patterned curtains (that my mommy made for me). The curtain rods were brass, leftover from years ago, I painted them silver and they look great. I already had the furniture and all of the bedding. Mom made the matching pillows.

I don't have a single thing on the walls. I can't decide what I want to do. As much as I love the curtains, a solid shade or something with a little less pattern would be easier to decorate with. It is such a loud pattern, I can't figure out what would look good on the walls. Any ideas?

Well, my lunch break is almost up, so ADIOS!

JB

My furry friends

I have several trees in my front yard. One of them is a walnut tree, therefore my FAVORITE furry creature is the squirrels. I haven't picked up ONE walnut yet this year. They just haul them off and hide them.

These squirrels really entertain me. I can sit and watch them forever. They make me laugh. Last week, this little guy was in the tree right outside my picture window so I snapped a few pics.

He is too cute!! On the last photo, look really close at the trunk of the tree!

See ya,

JB

Turquoise-aholic

Hello friends,
Sorry it has been a while since the last post, but I have been busy with work and other stuff, but I finished another project yesterday. I am especially proud of this one. I found it while hunting though an old grainery (which my idiot brother bulldozed and ruined my favorite treasure hunting place). Trust me....it didn't look like much. When he saw it, my dad asked "what the hell is that, and why in the hell are you taking that piece of junk home? Better yet, what the hell are you gonna do with it?" If you know my dad, it's even funnier to picture him saying that with his slow oklahoma drawl.

I did you a favor and cleaned it first. (Actually, I just forgot to take the "before" pic!) It was covered in 1/2 inch of dust and had at least 6 or 8 muddobbers nests on it. I had to be super careful because all of the deocrative scrollwork was crumbling. You have to keep in mind, this had probably been in that grainery for 60-80+ years. The mice, muddobber and critters had done a number to it. The back was chewed up pretty good.

This really was a mess. It is real wood and all of the fancy carving stuff was crumbling and came off really easy. I started off by giving it a good coat of primer to hold everything together and block the stains. I prefer Zinsser oil-based cover stain primer.

TADA!!! Here is the final result.

I painted it turquoise and dry-brushed some antiquing glaze on it to give it the old feel and bring out the details (although dad would ask me why in the hell did I paint it if I wanted it to look old!) I also added a cream matte and a peice of scrapbooking paper (which was difficult to install because the back portion had been chewed up by the critters, but painters tape is working for the time being!). Here is a close up of the detail work. SOO pretty!

This was a relatively simple project, but tedious at the beginning because I didn't want to lose all the beautiful detail work. I spent arund $4.75 on this project. I bought small craft bottles of turquoise and antiquing glaze at 1.50 apiece (half price). A mat for 1.25 (half price) and a piece of scrapbooking paper (.50). Not to bad for a custom piece of art.

I am hoping to finish another piece this weekend, so stay tuned for more posts!

JB