Color me Happy!

I had a really ugly old picture my Mom gave me years ago.  I knew I could do something fun with it.  Today as Brayden and I sat coloring at the table, I thought...hmmm....I know what I could make. 

Here...BEFORE:

and here is the AFTER:

I think it's just the cutest thing ever!  Now I just need to find a place to hang it ;-)

Hallway Redo...Part II

The hallway is getting there...slowly but surely.  It was A LOT more work than I had anticipated.  First...I had to crawl on the stairs on my knees to scrub them down.  2.  I re-painted all of the white trim from the top of the stairs, all the way down into the hallway, a window, doors, french doors, and front door.  I then had to paint the stairs and underneath molding brown. 3.  Then the floors needed to be scraped because they are an old icky hardwood that had paint droppings on them that was driving me crazy {not from me...from someone previous}.  4. Then I had to scrape the windows on the french doors because I got paint on the glass...{sigh} I intended to do it that way though...really.

Here is the so far progress.

I still have to make a front door curtain, a new window curtain, hang pretties in my hallway up the stairs...yadda yadda yadda...

                                    Before                                                                   After

                                  Before                                                                After

Okay...not a HUGE difference, but much cleaner looking in person...you can totally notice it looks better.

Much better!

Here are some of the newest pics I took to show off all of my hard work. 

More to come this weekend.  Pinky swear!

Enjoy!

To paint or not to paint???

I acquired this bed.  It was a steal at 29 bucks. It has side rails as well when all put together, and it is actually a three quarter inch bed...almost a full size.  I am still in search of a mattress and box spring that size...but back to the bed.  It is a depression style bed per the antique dealers I contacted about it.  They said it's not really worth much of anything these days and if I wanted to paint it I could.  I really had my heart set on something else for Brayden's first big boy bed, but I don't have the extra $450 bucks laying around to buy it right now...so I am thinking about painting this bed and using it for his room.  Red perhaps with some stain over the distressed sanded edges?  Maybe an antique white slightly distressed.  Black even?  Help me ladies....what do you think?  Also-if you have any advice on how to pait this so it does not LOOK painted...I'm all ears.  The dealer I talked to said to spray paint it...I was thinking of using a small roller.  I don't know.  I need advice.

Head board:

Foot board: