44:52

Refinished TV Cabinet

We picked this wooden TV Cabinet up from a local thrift store back in January for $15.  Talk about a steal!  It looked like someone made it and then never finished it.  

It too needed some black paint!  The knobs are from the IKEA dresser in the baby room that I replaced with blue ones.

Eventually I want to add some trim to the top and bottom along with some doors to cover the TV opening.  I didn’t finish it as I had dreamed up this time due to a lack of wood shop and saw for cutting angles.

Someday…
For now, we like the new look! 

:: Rachel

43:52

Orange Fabric Wall Decal

Thanks for your comments/suggestions about what should go on the blank wall in our baby room!  Some sort of tree was the overall gist from a few comments.  One friend of mine thought I should use and old pallet, but she and I both knew that would be too in depth, with too much assembly for me at this point with a couple weeks left.  

I saw an idea for executing this project on, where else?…Pinterest!  Thanks to Melanie who writes Sewing for Scarlett for her inspiration and instructions for how to make a tree on our rented walls.  I used Steam-A-Seam-2 as she said, tested it in a closet, and felt confident in not ruining the walls.

This one called for step-by-step pictures!

I started with a drawing of the wall (yes, the calculated artist in me made it to scale…partly because it made it easier in the end) where 1 inch = 1 foot.

Here I am in our kitchen with table pushed aside so that I could take the small drawing of the wall with the tree on it and enlarge it to make a pattern out of newspapers.

I traced the tree onto sheets of the Steam-A-Seam-2 (found at JoAnn Fabric in our area).  My genius husband suggested I label the pieces/branches in order and I’m so glad I did.

The next image is after peeling off the front of the sheets to stick them face down on the back of the fabric.

After using the stuck on sheets as a pattern for the fabric (so easy to cut out this way), we (my friend/assistant at the time, Sarah Pisney) peeled off the other side of the sheets and stuck the tree to the wall.  Thanks Sarah!

It is sticky enough to position it on the wall with no problem and then below is the finished tree after ironing on making it a little more “permanent.”  As I said earlier, I’m pretty sure it will come off without much of a problem when we move.

No more blank, large, grey wall and one step closer to feeling like the room is complete!  Thanks again for the suggestions in week 31’s post.

:: Rachel

42:52

Refinished Dresser

Kevin’s brother-in-law gave him this dresser, I’m guessing 5 years ago.  Since it moved into our home when we got married it’s been aching to match the other wood furniture in our house.  In other words, be painted black.  Here’s the before pictures with a half peeled off sticker to add to it’s charm.

I took the knobs off, filled in the holes for the drawer pulls, sanded it down, and went to work.  The toughest part was finding black paint (mine that’s been through many projects was almost out) and knobs that were less than $2 each.  

Here’s the after shots:

It will be great to have our kitchen back after this project filled it this week!

:: Rachel

41:52

Baby Bedding

With just less than four weeks to go, it’s crunch time and a good thing that I finished the bedding for our baby’s room this week!  Breathe a sigh of relief with me.  From the beginning I didn’t want a specific pattern or theme for the room.  I went with geometric designs.

Finding the fabrics for what I envisioned (especially in Lynchburg) was quite the challenge, but had what I needed by the end of September.  

Without further ado, the bedding…

One of the next projects, besides a mobile over the bed, is something to fill the biggest wall in his room.  You can see in the first picture above his bed the blank light grey that spans the room (keep in mind the ceilings are 10 feet tall too.  Blank.  I’m taking suggestions.  Maybe a painting, but what to paint?  Or a wall decal of a tree with some pictures hanging on it.  Please comment with any ideas!

Thanks to my friend Bekah for keeping an eye out for fabrics in California and to family who looked in their local fabric store to help me find enough of the right fabric.

On to the next project!

:: Rachel