And they are not funny.
For the past two weeks, I've been like, "honey, I want that bed in our room by Dec 1, ok?!?!"
Today is November 28 and there is most definitely a bed in my bedroom. In three pieces. Not polyed. Not put together. But it's in there!
Eff. You. Universe. Eff you.
Due to the all around shitty weather and the aforementioned humidity, the pieces need to be in the house. But they still need to be coated in poly. Oh and now sanded between coats of poly because of other issues that I don't have the energy to type about. The weather will be fabulous this weekend. But I'm going out of town and my husband is working all weekend. So...yeah. I seriously will be lucky to be sleeping in this bed by the end of 2012.
I'm going to start drinking now.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
More Bed News
I just realized that sounds like "more bad news" which is kind of funny. I don't really have bad news. I guess kind of both. Let's start with the "not so great" news.
I'm not sleeping in my bed. I will not be sleeping in my bed on Dec 1.
That hurt to type. I worked on it all weekend long and finished the painting (HOLLA!) and let that dry and then it was time to poly. Praise Jesus. We brought our Christmas tree home and attempted to decorate Sunday night so on Monday night, the mister went outside with a clean brush and the can of poly. He quickly got the base and footboard done. The weather was not looking so fantastic so we decided that we'd just stay up, let the poly dry enough, and move them into the house. So we waited and waited and WAITED and the damn thing just would not dry. So we went to bed.
At 5:30, the man is waking me up to help him move the bed because y'all, that storm was coming fast. The footboard was on top of a table so it was fine but the frame was just resting on some 2x4's so we were worried about water coming up the inch or so that it was from the ground. This was good and bad. Bad because holy shit, solid wood frames are HEAVY but good because once it was out of the humidity, it was dry within 30 minutes. Eff you, Louisiana humidity. But of course we now have to do a second coat of poly because my finger touched the edge and there's a perfect print of mine in the poly. Good times.
There's no point in even attempting to do anything else with it until the rain stops and the humidity drops. Since it's 97% at the moment, I don't see that happening today. Or tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow afternoon. I don't even know what the new timeline is.
Ok, on to the good! Y'all remember these nightstands?
Ahem, they now reside in my bedroom. Holla!
Homegirl emailed me Wednesday and told me that she had someone else interested in only the bed. She wanted $300 for both and while they are definitely worth that much, it just wasn't in our budget so I was honest and told her I loved them and really wanted them but just couldn't pay more than $200 for the set and I totally understood if she didn't want to take that little. And she was like, "fine but no less than $200" and I was like, "sold! where do you live?" and we picked them up Friday night. And I fucking love them. They are so nice! I seriously cannot believe that she even got rid of them. I feel like I stole them from her because they are totes worth like $300 apiece. Ok, maybe not that much but definitely more than $100.
Hopefully I'll have more good bed news tomorrow!
I'm not sleeping in my bed. I will not be sleeping in my bed on Dec 1.
That hurt to type. I worked on it all weekend long and finished the painting (HOLLA!) and let that dry and then it was time to poly. Praise Jesus. We brought our Christmas tree home and attempted to decorate Sunday night so on Monday night, the mister went outside with a clean brush and the can of poly. He quickly got the base and footboard done. The weather was not looking so fantastic so we decided that we'd just stay up, let the poly dry enough, and move them into the house. So we waited and waited and WAITED and the damn thing just would not dry. So we went to bed.
At 5:30, the man is waking me up to help him move the bed because y'all, that storm was coming fast. The footboard was on top of a table so it was fine but the frame was just resting on some 2x4's so we were worried about water coming up the inch or so that it was from the ground. This was good and bad. Bad because holy shit, solid wood frames are HEAVY but good because once it was out of the humidity, it was dry within 30 minutes. Eff you, Louisiana humidity. But of course we now have to do a second coat of poly because my finger touched the edge and there's a perfect print of mine in the poly. Good times.
There's no point in even attempting to do anything else with it until the rain stops and the humidity drops. Since it's 97% at the moment, I don't see that happening today. Or tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow afternoon. I don't even know what the new timeline is.
Ok, on to the good! Y'all remember these nightstands?
Ahem, they now reside in my bedroom. Holla!
Homegirl emailed me Wednesday and told me that she had someone else interested in only the bed. She wanted $300 for both and while they are definitely worth that much, it just wasn't in our budget so I was honest and told her I loved them and really wanted them but just couldn't pay more than $200 for the set and I totally understood if she didn't want to take that little. And she was like, "fine but no less than $200" and I was like, "sold! where do you live?" and we picked them up Friday night. And I fucking love them. They are so nice! I seriously cannot believe that she even got rid of them. I feel like I stole them from her because they are totes worth like $300 apiece. Ok, maybe not that much but definitely more than $100.
Hopefully I'll have more good bed news tomorrow!
Monday, November 19, 2012
Bed update (& other randoms)
Random "let's redo the bedroom" updates:
- Painting furniture is hard. Now I know why the local unfinished furniture store charges $200 per piece for them to paint it. And they probably have a fancy sprayer.
- The mister puttied and sanded all three pieces of our bed by Friday. Friday night I primed the footboard. Saturday I spent all day painting. I was able to get two coats of paint on the footboard (holy pain in the ass) and also prime and get two coats on the base of the bed. They look fantastic. We decided to go with a slightly off white color, Swiss Coffee from Behr. No thanks to the uber helpful (not) paint guy. I really hate Home Depot. Lowe's needs to build closer to me so I can stop shopping there.
- The headboard is fucking heavy so I had to wait for the mister to help me. Sunday I was sore from painting while laying on the concrete outside so I spent the day making an assload of rolls for Thanksgiving. And two pie crusts. When he got home Sunday night he helped me move the headboard into a position where I could either lean it against our house or a table. Let's label that as "where things went south"...
I tried to lean the headboard against the table so I could start priming and promptly cracked the post on the bottom. Which led me to freak and move too fast which sent the rest of this thing slamming into the side of my house. No worries, headboard is fine. My siding is now missing a chunk but whatever. The post is also fine. I'm just a drama queen. Mister sanded it down and it looks as good as new. We determined at that point that I could not paint this thing by myself.
So we'll have to do it together, which is fine except that means I have to wait till he gets home each day which is usually closer to 6:30 and then we eat dinner and then put the girl to bed and by then it's 8, and we're both tired, yo. And we're about to leave for two days for Thanksgiving so that's two days lost. I was hoping to be sleeping in my new fab bed by this weekend but at this rate I'll be lucky if it's Christmas. So I'm a little frustrated to say the least. - Timeline: hopefully we can prime the headboard tonight and maybe paint coat one (the primer dries really fast). Then coat two tomorrow night. Poly on Thursday night/Friday then another coat of poly after that one, hopefully on Saturday. Then it needs to cure outside for a couple days. So maybe by Dec 1? That would be awesome. However I also MUST put up my Christmas decor this weekend soooo....yeah. I need a PA.
- I'm getting a massage when all this is done.
- None of the previously talked about dressers were available. Still searching. I did find an awesome set of nightstands that I wouldn't even have to redo but they are part of a set and the seller wasn't sure if she wanted to split it up. Which I understand. She said she'd split them if the set hadn't sold by the end of the week. Fingers crossed.
They are fab.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Bed
We had the bedroom chat on Sunday of this week. On Wednesday, the mister was off of work. I called him from my office and asked what he was doing. His exact response was "I'm building a bed, I can't talk right now."
Um. Say what?
And then six hours later, this happened:
I am pleasantly shocked. It looks flipping amazing. He's still doing wood filler and then he has to sand it so hopefully I can get my paint on this weekend. I've been brushing up on my (nonexistent) furniture painting skills from YHL. And I'm hitting up the Home Depot this afternoon. Lord help the high school dropout working in the paint department today.
But isn't it fabulous?! I luff it.
Um. Say what?
And then six hours later, this happened:
I am pleasantly shocked. It looks flipping amazing. He's still doing wood filler and then he has to sand it so hopefully I can get my paint on this weekend. I've been brushing up on my (nonexistent) furniture painting skills from YHL. And I'm hitting up the Home Depot this afternoon. Lord help the high school dropout working in the paint department today.
But isn't it fabulous?! I luff it.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Dressers
I found some viable dresser options on Craigslist. I think that if it's an option (depending on the dresser), that we'd like to remove a top drawer and stick a dvd player in there.
This one actually also has two matching nightstands. I'm really digging that little door and the chevron wood pattern.
Matching nightstands: Maybe remove that bottom drawer? IDK...
Second one: Again with the cute little door. And all those little drawers! Buying hardware for that could be pricey though.
Three: Obviously I have a thing for tiny doors.
What do we think?
This one actually also has two matching nightstands. I'm really digging that little door and the chevron wood pattern.
Matching nightstands: Maybe remove that bottom drawer? IDK...
Second one: Again with the cute little door. And all those little drawers! Buying hardware for that could be pricey though.
Three: Obviously I have a thing for tiny doors.
What do we think?
Monday, November 12, 2012
Bedroom Redo
Apparently I'm averaging one post a month here (if you ignore July completely). Commitment is practically my middle name.
I started reading Young House Love a few months ago and holy smokes, I am so hooked to that site. Who knew that I had some dormant DIY-er living inside me?! Obviously "DIY-er" is a term I use loosely. Even though thanks to that site plus Pinterest, I'm all "of COURSE we can install our own stainless steel countertops" but the fact of the matter is that my handyman slash plumber slash electrician is totes on speed dial.
Anyway, the husband and I have been talking about a bedroom redo for quite some time now and then last week one of the drawers on his thirty year old, pressed wood (we're fancy like that) dresser broke and yesterday we actually sat in the room and chatted about what we'd like to do. "Like" being the operative word. I need a place to hammer this out so you're welcome for this way too long post about my bedroom. Sorry there's no sex involved.
Current situation: Bad.
Our bedroom has by far gotten the least attention since we bought the house 4 1/2 years ago. Let's see, we have our bed (a queen & no room for a king) which is basically a mattress, box spring, and frame. No actual head/foot board. Mismatched nightstands. Aforementioned dresser. A vanity and stool that my mom bought me for my twenty something birthday (20? 22?). A file cabinet and bookshelf that belong in the "office". Oh, and another dresser that we actually like, a tv that we don't watch (more on that later), a free standing mirror, and a tall jewelry holder thing that was my grandmother's. OH, and two matching lamps that I lurve as well as matching curtains that match our new bedspread. Which is basically what started all this.
I want to keep: bed, lamps, curtains, mirror, dresser, jewelry holder.
Replace: second dresser, nightstands.
Get rid of: file cabinet, bookshelf, vanity & stool.
Acquire: an actual bed, matching nightstands, starburst mirror, new dresser, new tv, bench for edge of bed, chair, ottoman (maybe), lamp, side table.
Our current bedspread is paisley with blues and greens and I love it so very much. I want to paint the walls a gray color and the trim white, which I assure you will lead to painting all the trim in the house white, which will be a giant pain in the ass but let's pretend that's not the case. So, gray walls, light blueish/green bed linens. So far, so good.
Our current bedding looks a lot like the Sienna Paisley duvet from PB (except with more blue than green) however that shit is expensive AND in person is really not as nice as on their site. Mine is from Marshall's and I'm obsessed with it. Moving on.
The husband is fairly handy and has been wanting to make a bed for us for quite some time now however 1) he's a procrastinator and 2) I'm a skeptic so that hasn't happened yet. Plus I just wasn't really able to envision our room with this particular bed in it BUT then I found this blog and I'll be damned if homegirl doesn't have: 1) (almost) the same wall as me, 2) same light color scheme, and 3) THE BED. Behold:
I almost fainted. Our molding isn't quite as fancy pants as hers (and we surely don't have all that badass lighting) but we do have a tray ceiling and two windows so yay for that.
ps-the plans for building that bed are over at ana-white.com
THE VISION: gray on the walls, my fab light blue curtains, dark (matching!) stained nightstands with my current fab blue lamps, a badass starburst mirror above the bed, that bed (in white), current light blue/green bedspread, and a bench at the end. That's the back wall. I lurve it. Or at least the idea of it.
Kind of like this except we have windows. And my husband doesn't like the upholstered bed which I just can't even discuss because really, what's not to love?
OH, OH, and then I stumbled across this blog where this chick is recommending paint colors for the aforementioned, way too expensive, Sienna bedding!
Anyway, to make this dream a reality here's the list of "to do's": paint, build a bed, find nightstands on the cheap (craigslist), refinish nightstands, get a badass starburst mirror, find a bench on the cheap, probably reupholster said bench.
So that's kind of a lot just for one wall but it is the most important wall so there's that.
Moving clockwise, we have wall numero two. Which currently houses the free standing mirror, the dresser we like, and the jewelry box. Mirror and jewelry box need to be moved to another wall but the dresser can stay where it is. And we'd need some artwork there but that will come way, way, way later. So that wall is pretty easy. That dresser is tall (5 drawers) and a dark stain. Hopefully we could get the non-existent nightstands to at least compliment, if not match, that color.
Current dresser:
Wall number three currently has: a basket with magazines in it, the pressed wood dresser, a tv we don't watch, the vanity and stool.
Here's the deal with the tv. We cancelled cable so we could afford THE daycare in our 'hood a year and a half ago and kind of never looked back. This tv is a million years old and I've never made the effort to get whatever hardware I'd need to watch the Today show or GMA (holla to Robin) which is all I'd really want it for. On the rare occasion we do watch the tube, it's in the living room. Oh, and I'd like it to watch dvd's with the babe in bed. So the tv needs to be craiglisted. But I would totes get a new tv so I can watch my morning shows and the news at night. Ha, ok not really, more like Jimmy Fallon. Whatever. The news depresses me.
Anyway, here's the plan for that wall: throw the current dresser (it's so ugly, y'all), get a badass dresser on the craigslist, paint it some awesome color (you see how Pinterest and YHL collide so easily?!), get a new tv for on top of the new badass dresser, make a little reading corner where the vanity currently is with a chair, lamp, and side table. And ottoman if it will fit. No biggie if it doesn't. The chair situation will come a LOT later also. But I do really like this one:
That dresser is pretty high on the list since the mister is currently missing a drawer. I would very much like to get matching hardware for all 4 pieces of furniture (2 dressers, 2 nightstands) to bring them all together. And the dresser for that wall would need to be short and long. I am fond of this dresser makeover:
This is what we're going for, maybe even a shorter dresser than what they have:
We even discussed making the dresser white like the bed. But I like the idea of some color as well. Who knows. Anyway...
Finally, wall four which is the current catchall. On this wall we have: file cabinet, bookshelf, random drawer thingy from college. All that shit needs to go to another room in the house. The mirror and jewelry box will go on that wall. We need some art there too but again, that is far, far away. I actually currently have some pics of the kiddo which I do love but we need better frames for sure. The room is really not that big (note to self: measure) so there's not a lot of space for stuff there anyway. OH and we also need new carpet like wHoa. I think that's on my master to do list for the house (what? you don't have one?!).
Ok, so that's the vision. If I knew how to work polyvore, I'd totes make a mood board or whatever that crap is but I don't and I don't really have time to learn so just roll with that. I will attempt to create some uber professional (ha!) looking floor plan with Paint or WordArt or some other 1994 program.
What do you think?!
I started reading Young House Love a few months ago and holy smokes, I am so hooked to that site. Who knew that I had some dormant DIY-er living inside me?! Obviously "DIY-er" is a term I use loosely. Even though thanks to that site plus Pinterest, I'm all "of COURSE we can install our own stainless steel countertops" but the fact of the matter is that my handyman slash plumber slash electrician is totes on speed dial.
Anyway, the husband and I have been talking about a bedroom redo for quite some time now and then last week one of the drawers on his thirty year old, pressed wood (we're fancy like that) dresser broke and yesterday we actually sat in the room and chatted about what we'd like to do. "Like" being the operative word. I need a place to hammer this out so you're welcome for this way too long post about my bedroom. Sorry there's no sex involved.
Current situation: Bad.
Our bedroom has by far gotten the least attention since we bought the house 4 1/2 years ago. Let's see, we have our bed (a queen & no room for a king) which is basically a mattress, box spring, and frame. No actual head/foot board. Mismatched nightstands. Aforementioned dresser. A vanity and stool that my mom bought me for my twenty something birthday (20? 22?). A file cabinet and bookshelf that belong in the "office". Oh, and another dresser that we actually like, a tv that we don't watch (more on that later), a free standing mirror, and a tall jewelry holder thing that was my grandmother's. OH, and two matching lamps that I lurve as well as matching curtains that match our new bedspread. Which is basically what started all this.
I want to keep: bed, lamps, curtains, mirror, dresser, jewelry holder.
Replace: second dresser, nightstands.
Get rid of: file cabinet, bookshelf, vanity & stool.
Acquire: an actual bed, matching nightstands, starburst mirror, new dresser, new tv, bench for edge of bed, chair, ottoman (maybe), lamp, side table.
Our current bedspread is paisley with blues and greens and I love it so very much. I want to paint the walls a gray color and the trim white, which I assure you will lead to painting all the trim in the house white, which will be a giant pain in the ass but let's pretend that's not the case. So, gray walls, light blueish/green bed linens. So far, so good.
From here because pottery barn's website is an asshole.
Our current bedding looks a lot like the Sienna Paisley duvet from PB (except with more blue than green) however that shit is expensive AND in person is really not as nice as on their site. Mine is from Marshall's and I'm obsessed with it. Moving on.
The husband is fairly handy and has been wanting to make a bed for us for quite some time now however 1) he's a procrastinator and 2) I'm a skeptic so that hasn't happened yet. Plus I just wasn't really able to envision our room with this particular bed in it BUT then I found this blog and I'll be damned if homegirl doesn't have: 1) (almost) the same wall as me, 2) same light color scheme, and 3) THE BED. Behold:
Found here.
I almost fainted. Our molding isn't quite as fancy pants as hers (and we surely don't have all that badass lighting) but we do have a tray ceiling and two windows so yay for that.
ps-the plans for building that bed are over at ana-white.com
THE VISION: gray on the walls, my fab light blue curtains, dark (matching!) stained nightstands with my current fab blue lamps, a badass starburst mirror above the bed, that bed (in white), current light blue/green bedspread, and a bench at the end. That's the back wall. I lurve it. Or at least the idea of it.
Kind of like this except we have windows. And my husband doesn't like the upholstered bed which I just can't even discuss because really, what's not to love?
OH, OH, and then I stumbled across this blog where this chick is recommending paint colors for the aforementioned, way too expensive, Sienna bedding!
Anyway, to make this dream a reality here's the list of "to do's": paint, build a bed, find nightstands on the cheap (craigslist), refinish nightstands, get a badass starburst mirror, find a bench on the cheap, probably reupholster said bench.
So that's kind of a lot just for one wall but it is the most important wall so there's that.
Moving clockwise, we have wall numero two. Which currently houses the free standing mirror, the dresser we like, and the jewelry box. Mirror and jewelry box need to be moved to another wall but the dresser can stay where it is. And we'd need some artwork there but that will come way, way, way later. So that wall is pretty easy. That dresser is tall (5 drawers) and a dark stain. Hopefully we could get the non-existent nightstands to at least compliment, if not match, that color.
Current dresser:
Found here
Wall number three currently has: a basket with magazines in it, the pressed wood dresser, a tv we don't watch, the vanity and stool.
Here's the deal with the tv. We cancelled cable so we could afford THE daycare in our 'hood a year and a half ago and kind of never looked back. This tv is a million years old and I've never made the effort to get whatever hardware I'd need to watch the Today show or GMA (holla to Robin) which is all I'd really want it for. On the rare occasion we do watch the tube, it's in the living room. Oh, and I'd like it to watch dvd's with the babe in bed. So the tv needs to be craiglisted. But I would totes get a new tv so I can watch my morning shows and the news at night. Ha, ok not really, more like Jimmy Fallon. Whatever. The news depresses me.
Anyway, here's the plan for that wall: throw the current dresser (it's so ugly, y'all), get a badass dresser on the craigslist, paint it some awesome color (you see how Pinterest and YHL collide so easily?!), get a new tv for on top of the new badass dresser, make a little reading corner where the vanity currently is with a chair, lamp, and side table. And ottoman if it will fit. No biggie if it doesn't. The chair situation will come a LOT later also. But I do really like this one:
That dresser is pretty high on the list since the mister is currently missing a drawer. I would very much like to get matching hardware for all 4 pieces of furniture (2 dressers, 2 nightstands) to bring them all together. And the dresser for that wall would need to be short and long. I am fond of this dresser makeover:
Found here
This is what we're going for, maybe even a shorter dresser than what they have:
Found here
We even discussed making the dresser white like the bed. But I like the idea of some color as well. Who knows. Anyway...
Finally, wall four which is the current catchall. On this wall we have: file cabinet, bookshelf, random drawer thingy from college. All that shit needs to go to another room in the house. The mirror and jewelry box will go on that wall. We need some art there too but again, that is far, far away. I actually currently have some pics of the kiddo which I do love but we need better frames for sure. The room is really not that big (note to self: measure) so there's not a lot of space for stuff there anyway. OH and we also need new carpet like wHoa. I think that's on my master to do list for the house (what? you don't have one?!).
Ok, so that's the vision. If I knew how to work polyvore, I'd totes make a mood board or whatever that crap is but I don't and I don't really have time to learn so just roll with that. I will attempt to create some uber professional (ha!) looking floor plan with Paint or WordArt or some other 1994 program.
What do you think?!
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