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Moody Bedroom Remodel

Your bedroom is supposed to be your sanctuary. For years I have wanted to make our bedroom more personalized to our style. After lots of research and contemplation, I decided to perform a Moody Bedroom Remodel!

Materials

Base Cap Molding
Caulk
Wood Filler
Nail Gun
Finishing Nails
Paintable Switch Plates
Paint: Up In Smoke by Glidden

This project does not require a lot of materials; however, painting a dark color takes patience, finesse, and lots of coats!

Getting Started

First, I taped off the entire room to decide on the placement of my decorative wall molding. While this is not a requirement, I am a very visual person so it allows me to get a better picture of the layout.

Once, I determined placement of the picture molding, I took all of the measurements based on my tape layouts. After I got all of the measurements down pat, I cut all of the base cap molding. Each end of the base cap moldings should have 45 degree angle cuts that allow all 4 pieces of molding to fit together for a seamless picture frame look.

Creating the Walls

The picture frame moldings are very easy to install. Place the the precut molding pieces on the wall and attach them with the nail gun. Make sure to use a level when hanging the molding to ensure the pieces are straight and will align properly.

Once all of the picture frame moldings are hung, fill all of the nail holes and connecting edges with wood filler. Caulk around the inside and the outside of each of the molding pieces.

If you want the outlet plugs to disappear as opposed to standing out, buy and install the paintable outlet covers prior to painting.

Painting

The final step to this project is the most time consuming part of the entire project, painting! Going into this project, I know I wanted to go dark. Finding the right color for our room took time. Luckily, I stumbled upon an amazing paint color at Home Depot: Up In Smoke by Glidden.

Painting the room took days and days to complete. Although this process was time consuming, it was the best decision we made. The dark color creates a comforting warm feeling that was missing in our bedroom.

It took two entire gallons of paint for our bedroom.

Finishing Touches

Finally after days and days of painting the room was finished and it was time to replace all the furniture. Since I went so dark and moody on the walls, I left the furniture and accessories neutral.

Everything turned out so much better than I expected. This Moody Bedroom Remodel turned out to be the perfect sanctuary for my husband and I.

Updating Discounted Chairs on a Budget

Velvet Chair with Gold Accents for less than $70 a Chair!

Decorating is something I enjoy doing, and I love the challenge of decorating on a budget. I wanted to add two chairs to our living room to make the area more functional but I did not want to break the bank. There were several chairs I fell in love with online but they fell within the 300-500 dollar range. Ideally for this project I wanted to spend no more than $100 a chair. Join me on my journey for Updating Discounted Chairs on a Budget!

The above picture is my living room space after completing my DIY Barn Door Shutters project. While the space is functional, we needed more seating for entertaining. I recently purchased blue velvet curtains for my home office and wanted to continue with the same material in the living room. My online hunt for the perfect blue velvet chair began.

Purchasing the Perfect Chair

While I found several chairs that would fit the space perfectly, they were all sadly outside my budget. I found a blue velvet chair on Wayfair that fit within my budget called the Alivia Armchair.

The chair was listed on sale for $150 a chair. While this seems outside of my budget it wasn’t because I had a credit at Wayfair for $128. I obtained the Wayfair credit because I ordered an electric fireplace for my Faux Built-in Fireplace with Shiplap home renovation project from Wayfair and it came with some marks on it. Wayfair will offer to completely replace your item or provide a credit for the damage. Generally, I take the credit if it is something I can easily fix.

Initially I thought I was paying $172 for both chairs however, when the chairs arrived they both had paint damage to the black portion of the chair. Wayfair gave me $60 off my purchase price because of the paint damage. This discount brought the price of both chairs down to $112, that is $56 per chair! For this project, the paint damage was not an issue because I already had plans to repaint the chairs. The moral of this story is don’t be afraid to ask for a discount if a product arrives in a less than perfect condition.

Updating the Chairs

The chair base color needed to be redone in order for the chair to have more character and fit into my design style. I picked out a Metallic Gold spray paint made by Rust-Oleum.

I removed the chair base from the chair seat. The chair seat was easily removable and was only connected by a few screws.

Each chair base was coated with two coats of Metallic Gold Rust-Oleum paint. It took 3 cans of Metallic Gold paint for both chairs.

After the final Metallic Gold paint coat dried, I sprayed each chair base with Rust-Oleum Matte Finish Clear Protective Finish. The Clear Protective Finish helps prevent the gold paint from being scratched off.

Once everything was completely dry, I reattached the chair seats to the chair bases.

I played with the placement of my new fabulous chairs and finally came up with the perfect layout.

These chairs are comfortable, stylish, and best of all they did not break the bank. The total cost of BOTH chairs and all of the spray paint was $135. Think outside of the box and have fun revamping inexpensive furniture to fit your design style and needs. I can’t wait to see what you create!

Buffalo Plaid Painted Pumpkins

Halloween time is here in full affect! We have been decorating our house like crazy trying to get ready for our favorite holiday. I decided to decorate my farmhouse porch with pumpkins and mums because it will be transitional staple for Fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving! Originally, I put a mix of white, green, and orange pumpkins out on the porch of various shapes and sizes. My porch was cute but it missing something. I decided to paint the orange pumpkins and my project turned out better than I could have expected. Check out my step by step guide for these fabulous farmhouse Buffalo Plaid Painted Pumpkins!

Materials:

Pumpkin
White Paint
Black Paint
Paint Brush
Ribbon (optional)

*There is no down time when applying paint for this project, no need to wait for anything to dry just follow each step!

Directions:

Place the pumpkin of your choosing on a surface you don’t mind getting paint on, I put down some old Trader Joe’s bags to paint on.

Paint the entire pumpkin white. I had leftover paint from various projects around the house so I utilized it to make these pumpkins! If you are worried about getting paint on the stem simply cover the bottom of the stem with tape and remove after painting. I didn’t tape the stems of my pumpkins because I knew I was adding ribbons at the end of the project.

Place a good amount of white paint into a disposable plate or bowl and add a drop or two of black paint. Mix the black and white paint together until you have a beautiful gray color.

Place 8 vertical lines on the pumpkin with gray paint.

With the same gray paint, paint two horizontal lines onto the pumpkin. Place one horizontal line towards the top half of the pumpkin and one towards the bottom half. If your pumpkin is on the taller side you might need to add an extra horizontal gray line to make the pumpkin look more uniform.

Using black paint only, paint a square at each point that the horizontal and vertical gray lines meet. There should be 16 black squares on each pumpkin. Don’t worry if your lines are not perfectly straight, everything will look great in the end, I promise!

I had extra farmhouse fabric from a set of no sew curtains I recently completed (stay tuned for that tutorial). Once the pumpkins were dry, I cut the fabric into long strips and tied them into bows around the stems of each pumpkin. I placed the pumpkins onto the porch and they could not be any more perfect!