Riley's Jungle Room

Here are some pics of the soon- to- be updated room of my son.  It was fun while it lasted but he's growing up:(  Sniffle... sniffle.   We wanted something bold and fun! 

 I am a sucker for animal print so decided to just go with it!  I painted his dresser drawers and got some fun knobs.  I'll try to get some close ups of them later. 

 A boy needs room for all of his stuff!  I was so pumped when I found the animal print bins!

For something fun I hung this rope across his wall, wrapped it in leaves and hung various animals from it.  Awww, I'm going to miss it all:)  He really loved this room for some years but I am excited at the same time to update it:)

Neighbors Kitchen

 Here are pics of my awesome neighbors kitchen that I redid!  I love it!  She wanted yellow and what goes better with yellow than gray?  I LOVE the color combo!!  It started out with green walls and white cabinets.  Using gray paint and a glaze we painted them then used a dry brush through them showing a little of the previous white underneath.  I love how they turned out!! 

 Then choosing a lighter yellow for the walls and gray, white, and a bolder yellow for the accents.  I ordered these stencils online.  Aren't they soooooo neat? Such an adorable and thrifty way to decorate a whole wall space!  We repeated the pattern in the dining room as well and used one medallion above the stove.  Voila!  Super cute:)

 For the larger wall in the dining room I decided to use the same colors in stripes.  Since the frames were small, we needed something more substantial behind it to take up more visual space.  We then repeated the stripes above the cupboards in the kitchen. The home owner found these cute shadow box frames at the local dollar store but they had shells in them.  We took them apart, glued on some cute scrapbook paper for the back round and used cute yellow flowers for the center. 

 Onto the magnetic chalk board.  The homeowner thought it would be fun to have a place to hang their kids artwork.  Using magnetic paint (not the most fun product to use) underneath and chalkboard paint over the top.  They have this adorable wall space to hang pictures or play!  As you can tell they love it:))  To dress it up I used more stencils around it in the same accent colors used around the room.  The homeowner decided to change out the beige light switches and outlets for white and her light fixtures for new silver toned ones to freshen them up.  I found some adorable towels and oven mitt set at Target.

After searching and searching for fabric to redo this desk chair, the homeowner decided to use one of the dish towel.  ADORABLE! I changed out the window treatments on the smaller windows with some faux wood blinds that the homeowner found on sale for $11 each... ummmm SCORE!  I decided that cafe curtains for the large window would be perfect.  Still letting in the light, but giving privacy when needed.  We found this fabric after an extensive search of a fabric outlet store.  I'm thinking it's perfect in there!

I found these cute little planters in the PERFECT color on clearance at Joann's for $1 a piece... another SCORE!!!   Now they have the cutest kitchen on the block.  I'll admit, I'm kind of jealous!  I truly had so much fun doing it though and had fun with the homeowners and their cute kiddos too:)

Gray, White and Red bedroom

This is another room that was tons 'o fun to do.  The homeowners plan on selling sometime soon in the future so we wanted to paint a neutral enough color to not have to repaint this bedroom when the time came.  I am lovin' gray right now!! So, after finding this gray comforter at a steal at Target we painted the walls in the same color family.

 She wanted a headboard but didn't want to buy a new one.  So, I made this one- correction my awesome Hubby made this one and I designed it.  Man that guy has skills:)  Using a piece of plywood cut to the size needed, he applied this paintable wall paper (10 dolla' holla for a huge roll at Lowes) that I had from a previous project.  Then using pre-primed trim cut down to frame it out.

 It is hung on the wall with a cheap hardware set and then painted with a deeper gray in the same family.  Costing a total of about $45!!  I love it so much I feel like getting rid of my bed frame and making one for my room! Super cute:)

Now onto the paintings on the wall.  The homeowner had these two canvas's with a previous paint job on them and thought we could recycle them.  There was a large wall space to cover so I thought we could combine them to make one large image.  Using the paint sample that I got to paint the headboard, I covered them in a dark gray.

  I Googled images of floral images and found one similar to this.  I bought paint pens (one of the best inventions ever) and drew on the stems, leaves and flowers in white, red and black.  Costing a total of about $10!  The bonus is that there is still paint and paint pens left to use on future projects!!  This one was so fun.  The artwork above the bed was pictures taken from the homeowner  (she's soooo good at it:) and used frames she already had from before.  We decided on plain white curtains for a fresh and clean look and bought one toss pillow and a throw for color.  We gave an old dresser a fresh coat of paint and got one nice bedroom for less that $200!

Lyla's Pretty Plum Nursery

 First of all, I love this room! I now find myself gravitating to the colors elsewhere without realizing it. I wanted something girly and sophisticated. You should know that I am officially in the damask and paisley fan club. They are both prints I am often drawn to. So when I found this black and white damask print crib set online, for a very reasonable 100 smackers, I was sold! I knew that I didn't want pink for the walls, (always adorable but I wanted "different"). I decided on this pretty deep plum color to keep it girly. 

  I found this crib online for a great price and love that it has a drawer underneath to store extra sheets and blankets.

  We got the dresser on clearance at Babies R' Us (it has a small scratch on one of the corners). They say "defect," I say "character." Win, win... 

The rocking chair is actually made for a porch but works great in here. Another steal at around $60. I got the ottoman/toy chest from Target as a gift and the bookshelf for $30 on sale at Target as well. 

 The bookshelf on the wall was made with love by Grandpa and I am soooooo in love with it! 

  Now onto the window treatments. I bought I pair of plain white curtains for $15. (I only bought I set since originally her room was upstairs but that's another story). My lovely Grams sewed different black and white ribbons to the bottom and pretty buttons along the top to make them super cute!

 Now onto the accessories.... I got a super cute plain lamp and dressed it up with leftover ribbon from the curtains. The basket on the dresser was a find from Home Goods. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, I just had to have it! I originally had receiving blankets rolled up in there until we no longer used them. Now I love displaying her books and CD's in it. It's a good thing I have so much storage for books because my girl LOVES them! 

I found the chandelier online for $70 and it's soooooo pretty! My handy hubby made the framed magnet board (More on how he did that later) and I got the cute butterfly magnets at Target. (Man I love that place!) I spray painted some of them black and got her cute magnetic letters to spell out her name. Voila!! Lyla's pretty plum nursery:) 

There are actually pictures here from her room when it was upstairs and later when we moved it downstairs to be closer to us:)  I'm still gradually working on things like additional window treatments to darken the room more when needed and really want to do a ceiling medallion.  There are a couple projects in here that I'll go over later and some more pics to post.  Hope you likey:)