Dresser Makeover

After scouring Pinterest for ideas for Hannah Grace's nursery I saw several furniture refinishes with these old dressers that I really liked.  I loved the detail and the curved lines.  I knew I wanted to refinish something because it would be a lot less expensive than buying a new dresser and I wanted to add a colorful pop.  I had been looking at garage sales and craiglist for months when I saw this dresser at Sean's moms house.

  

It even had a mirror with it, which I loved because that meant one less thing to find to decorate the walls.  The cream color with gold accents was not my thing though.  It was also pretty banged up and a little smelly.  But,  I knew it was exactly what I was looking for and just needing a little love... and it was free!

I set up in the garage.  I took all the hardware off and gave it a quick sanding.  Then, I painted a coat of primer on the whole piece.  It's not made of solid wood so the primer will help the paint stick.  I color-matched a piece of fabric I was using for Hannah's crib skirt to get the bluish teal color I was looking for.  I wanted to cut the pink with some blue, but wanted it to be a muted, dustier color than a baby blue.   The drawers were stinky and dirty so I primed them and painted them white.  I found this cute drawer lining at Walmart and put that inside the drawers.

I loved the look of the faux glass knobs I found at Home Depot and decided to put two on each drawer.  It turned out exactly as I was hoping and love the pop of blue it adds to her nursery.

The only problem was that it was a small dresser.  I really wanted a little more space, but when this dresser was free I knew I had to take it.  The Lord knew exactly what we needed because I realized the dresser in our guest bedroom was exactly the same style.  We had picked it up off the side of the road right after we bought our house and had painted it brown.  I was using it to store fabric but when I realized it went with Hannah's dresser we painted it blue as well and added the same knobs.

It really completes her nursery and we ended up really needing the extra space.

Hannah Grace's Nursery Reveal

I have taken a break from blogging recently because we have had our hands full with two kids under two!  We welcomed our baby girl, Hannah Grace, into the world on June 1 and she has added so much joy to our lives!  She is so sweet and snuggly and it has been such a blessing to see Joshua love her so much!  

It is so much fun to do the hair bows and dresses this time around and I had a blast doing Hannah's nursery.  It wasn't what I had originally planned but it turned out even better than I imagined.  I definitely wanted to do a "girly" nursery and it definitely is that.  It's sweet and feminine, just like our girl.

I found this little girl's room and loved everything about it.  So, I decided to paint the walls Sherwin Williams Amour Pink (although we used Behr and had it color matched) with pops of SW Hopeful (the darker coral) and dark teal.  The feature wall is stenciled with a bird mobile I made out of salt dough and paper flowers.  Her crib skirt is a ruffled crib skirt with dark teal, light teal, and white lace ruffles.  The white lace also got used in the curtains and actually used to be in my room as a little girl.

  

Sean made this sign for her nursery which shows the meaning of the name Hannah, gracious and compassionate.  When we found out that we were going to have a little girl we prayed about what we should name her.  We felt like the Lord was prompting us to name her Hannah and we loved that Hannah was a woman of prayer and that she trusted the Lord with everything that she had, which is exactly what we want for our little girl. 

We refinished two dressers and painted them the dark teal color and added new hardware.  One dresser we got from Sean's step sister and the other one we already had.  We had picked it up from the side of the road in my parent's neighborhood and had painted it brown.  It's been in our guest room since we moved into our house.  When I realized it was the exact same style as the other dresser I knew it needed to go in Hannah's room. This girl has been very blessed by hand me downs from sweet friends and family, she already needed more dresser space.

I wanted to incorporate little birds into her nursery because they are sweet and play on our sweetly nested theme.  I have really grown to love little birds in our home decor and we have them all over the house now.  I put them in her mobile, added a bird cage, and she even has little birds on her curtain rods.  

For the curtains I knew I wanted to use lace, but thought I needed to break up the pink a little bit.  So, I did a full panel of the dark teal and added some lace half way down.  Like I said before, the lace used to be curtains in my room as a little girl so it was fun to add them for my little girl.  I cut the lace in half and cut around some of the shapes and sewed it onto the dark teal fabric.

We also did thumb print art for Hannah's nursery.  All of our friends and family put their thumb prints as leaves on a tree and then I added four birds to represent our little family.  I included 1 Peter 3:4 "For you shall clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God."  Whenever I pray for our little girl I feel the spirit prompting me to pray for a gentle and quiet spirit.  

I love the way her nursery turned out and hope she never wants to change it, or at least always loves pink stenciled walls.  I might cry if we have to paint over them.

 

The Farmhouse Kitchen Table

$600

This beautiful, rustic Farmhouse Kitchen Table will give your kitchen a relaxing, inviting presence.  With antique detailing and distressed barn-wood style top, your family will love to share meals here for years and years to come.  Easily fitting six people, this comfortable, yet high end table will invite guests into your home and make them want to stay for dinner

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Rustic X Detail Coffee Table

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This beautifully rustic coffee table will be the perfect centerpiece for any southern living room.  Made from solid wood, it's sturdy enough to kick your feet up on after a long day yet beautifully crafted with hand painted antique detailing.  It's warm and inviting, yet intricate and refined.

So much brass...

Our house was built in 2001, but it's got some really. uh..., lovely 90s decor.  When we moved in every fixture, door knob, hinge, and faucet was brass or better combo of silver and brass. 

Oh yes, it was beautiful.  So, we have been working on de-brassing the house every since (3 years in and still trucking along).  Probably the first summer we were there I tried spraying the doorhandles, hinges, and hardware in the downstairs oil rubbed bronze.  We have 7 doors downstairs  and 14 doors upstairs that each have two handles, a lock, a mounting hardware, and three hinges.  I thought for about 2 seconds about just buying all new, but at  $13 a piece for knobs and about $3 a piece per hinge that would cost us almost $500!  And that doesn't include all the faucets and light fixtures!  We are way too cheap for that and since the handles and hardware were in good condition, we decided to try and spray them.  

So, Sean helped me take all of the doors off their hinges and remove all of the door knobs and hardware.  I laid out sheet in or yard and tried to space them out the best I could.  There was so much hardware it took several batches to get it all done.  I sprayed it with Rustoleum's oil rubbed bronze and to give it more of an antiqed feel I took a Q-tip and before the spray paint dried I rubbed off a few accents so the bronze would show through. 

 We also sprayed them with a clear coating to help keep the paint from chipping and hopefully help them last longer. Sean helped me rehang all the doors and re-install the hardware.  It was definitely time consuming but for about $20, it made a huge difference in our house and was way easier to swallow than the $500 option.