Ellie's Room 90% finished

I finally took some good pictures of Ellie's room! I love how it turned out, and I just need a headboard, dust ruffle and a bean bag chair for the corner, then we'll be set! Possibly thinking of making a cute bunting to go on the wall somewhere, but not 100% sure, yet!

 I picked up the white frame at Hobby Lobby on our girl's day, and I LOVE it. Also, I LOOOVE that picture of Ellie. She was (and still is) such a little cutie!

 The dresser that I refinished last summer. Not perfect, and I learned a LOT if I ever decide to do one again.

I had these wall stickers for her nursery when we lived in Utah, but they were so trashed after being on 3 different bedroom walls! I found them at Hobby Lobby! Woohoo! I love that I found them again because I love the little touch the add to her room.

I'm considering dying the blackout curtains a dark brown, but I'm not sure how the fabric will take it so that project is on hold for now.

Her quilt is so cute, and while it is FAR from perfect, I am glad I took the project head on and decided I could try it. It took way longer than a quilt should take, ha ha, but it's done and that's all that matters!

I think Ellie's room is probably the most decorated/cutest room in the house. Someday I'll get to furnishing and decorating the rest of our house...

Dresser re-do

The project: re-paint and make this dresser cute!



 I had been keeping my eyes peeled for an awesome dresser find on craigslist, and I finally found one, so I snatched it up asap! Upon arriving to pick the dresser up, we found out that it had been living in a smoking home (SHOOT! I didn't ask this before buying it...) and I was less than thrilled. I let it air out for a while, hoping some of the smoke smell would dissipate, and luckily, a lot of it did. However it wasn't all gone, but I figured that through painting it and using lots of methods online that I researched, I could get the smell out!

When I first saw the dresser, I had thought of just painting it white but then I decided that a color instead of white for this dresser would be so cute! I took Ellie's quilt to Home Depot, and they matched the paint exactly to the blue on her quilt! The paint color I used is Behr's River's Edge. It's beautiful and we love it!

Because the dresser was painted black, I had to do 3 coats of paint to completely cover it. After painting most of the dresser, the smoke smell wasn't going away, so I thought I'd just paint the inside of the dresser to "seal" in the smoke smell. Well, it didn't make it any better. So after using my super sensitive sniffer, I sniffed out the big problem--the backing! It was made from that crappy paper-ish stuff, and was just holding on to the smoke smell!

My hard work painting the insides of the dresser, only to rip the backing off!

 

 

 

Nasty backing

So after spending a good 30 minutes ripping the backing off, the smell lessened on the actual dresser, but I could smell even more smoke coming from the backing. I took the old backing to Home Depot, and the cut me a piece of backing material to replace it with. I borrowed a staple gun to put it on but sadly the new backing is too hard for the staples to go through!

We decided to just move the dresser into Ellie's room anyway and put the backing on later since it's not adding any structural help to the dresser.

 Here is the finished product with new knobs and drawer pulls! Part of me wishes I would have just filled the holes on the bottom two drawers and put knobs on all of the drawers, but I don't think it looks too bad!

It's not perfect, but we'll take it! I don't think I'm going to do another project like this for a LONG time, though! It wore me out and I don't want to deal with another project for a while! Now I just need to put cute things on top of it!