I had grand plans a few weeks ago to repaint and redecorate a neglected room in the house. All started well enough but I got sidelined by a cold then some other annoying health thing and so things moved along slower than I thought they would.
Or maybe my age means I can’t redo a room top to bottom in two days like in the olden times. Alas, I pulled it together this weekend.
The room is connected to our bedroom (by that door on the left) and so it needed to work with what is going on in there.
It also had to cost me practically nothing. We have spent plenty around here lately so I bought the white paint, and the gray on the window frame and dresser was a sample pint I bought to try out on the outside of the house. I spray-painted the knobs a couple of different colors and then wiped them with stain to get the bronze look I wanted.
I stole from every room in the house to fill it. Thank goodness winter is coming and I could take many things that normally would be on the screened porch.
The top two levels over the dresser I bought a few years ago. I love work tools and then last year my mom acquired my grandfather’s toolbox. The bottom level was his and his initials are on it. The old pyrex bottle with the mini lights in it came from an estate sale. I saw it and loved it and went back the next day when it was half off. My niece’s speckled trout artwork has a proper frame now.
The wallpaper hanging table that I am using as a desk I got about fifteen years ago at an estate sale. I paid $65.00 for it and have used it in every way imaginable. The legs fold down and then the table itself folds in half so it has been easy to store when I haven’t needed it.
The cabinet on the desk I got on the last day at Good Company – a vintage shop where I used to have a booth. It was marked down to $30.00. I had no idea where I would put it but I loved it and brought it home. I filled it with my nature stuff – turtle shells, rocks, bird’s nest, antlers, feathers, driftwood. I recently told a coworker how I like that kind of stuff inside my house and the look of horror on her face cracked me up. I thought about painting it but Will yelled, “Everybody needs to stop painting stuff.” I’m glad I heeded his advice warning.
I need a few more things on the wall but other than that it is done.
Sheesh.
I’m inspired and content every time I look at it.
