Other Re-Imagined Spaces...

There are a lot of final touches to share!  We moved into the basement bedroom, so our room became our 3 year old's big boy bedroom, and his old room became the nursery.  And our dining room is now complete with a finished hutch!

I'll start with the nursery.

Here are some side by side comparisons of the room when our son lived in it and it being complete for our new baby:

You'll see glimpses of this rug in the pictures of the new nursery decor.

Over the crib on the right is a print from my friend Hannah, who is a very creative, talented individual whom I love dearly.  She also gave our little girl the lovely ethnic looking lantern, which I chose to hang over the foot of her bed.

I got some of the bedding for her room decor from this website but didn't want it to be too matchy-matchy.  The crib sheet, crib skirt changing table cover and curtains are all from there.  I started making her little quilt the day after we found out her gender from the sonogram <3

Pretty sweet for a little girly room.  Of course I had fun with it--both decorating for an unknown gender for our first, and then then our little girl!  The crib is the same, but we did have to refinish the top rail due to our son's beaver tendencies :P  It's husband Gabe's old crib from when he was a babe...with a Miniwax stain in Ebony, and shellac painted over top of it to seal in the toxins.

Here are a few more angles of the room:

I got the colorful stool from Hobby Lobby as well as a good bit of the wall art--the feathers and the chevron prints and then the metal arrows flanking Hannah's art over the crib.  The wooden chevron banner is also from Hobby Lobby as well as the golden letters of her name on the shelf to the upper left of the changing table/dresser.  The colorful box is from Ikea, the laundry basket from Home Goods and the wonderful wooden, antique shelf from Joel's Antiques on Amazon, who I've sourced before.

The vignette of fabric hoops I really had fun with.  I sourced some of the fabrics from Finch Sewing Studio and others from my own fabric collection. Here are a few:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/492214944/bougainvillea-in-evergreen-sage-by-bari?ref=shop_home_active_27

https://www.etsy.com/listing/468508431/notebook-paper-in-white-paper-obsessed?ref=shop_home_active_31

https://www.etsy.com/listing/507551191/link-in-carrot-sunprint-2017-by-alison?ref=shop_home_active_71

https://www.etsy.com/listing/489763577/the-cattle-print-in-wasabi-friedlander?ref=shop_home_active_19

Some more detail shots of the crib (I used this bumper for our son too, just flipped around):

This pictured above is the (framed) puzzle I presented to both sets of grandparents when Gabe and I made the announcement of her impending arrival :D

Moving right along to the finished hutch in its final destination.  Here are a few pics to remind us of the process:

And now:

Yay!  It feels so good to finally have it in place.

I think I will wait to show any pics of little man's bedroom.  There are some fun features to it so far, but there are still some parts to finish before it's all staged up.

'Til next time----

<3

Revitalized Hutch

There had been a gem of potential sitting in my basement for a while in the shape of a hutch.  It was the only thing left (of value!! they left a lot of trash!!) by the the "tenants" that stayed in the house for 5 months.  It is an interesting piece, with lots of unique details.  I wanted an opportunity to experiment with chalk paint, so I took this low risk opportunity to try it out!

The hutch can be seen below in two pieces, with the door taken off (sometimes I forget to take the "before" pic at the very beginning!!):

I decided to take off the glass panels on the sides as well because the one on the left had a crack in it and I didn't want to mess with finding replacement glass!!  Not very "rehab addict" of me (for any of you familiar with the show!), I know.  The next step would be to have Gabe use an oscillating multi tool to remove the side lights (the attached side glass panels). This proved to be tricky since we would have to deal with the articulation of the sides where Gabe cut them.  I found a 3/4" trim detail at Home Depot that fit perfectly, so Gabe glued/nailed it into place.

Here is an after shot!

I used Annie Sloan's English Yellow color.  It was a little bit expensive, but I thought it was worth it!  After two coats of the chalk paint, I used a couple coats of the wax that they recommend too.  I really love how it turned out!

And some detail shots:

with flash

And I really loved the original handles for this piece, so I kept 'em.  I did have to give them a good spray paint job--a dark dark brown, resembling oil rubbed bronze.  You might be able to see how I distressed the pristine paint job to give it a unique look.

without flash

I didn't paint inside, because the wood finish still looked so good.

Once our basement renovation is finished and our bedrooms are all switched around and finalized, I will make the final decision about where to put this large yellow hutch.  It's rather bulky and heavy so I need to see where the dust settles with everything else first.  My first thought was the dining room, but it's such a small room and the dining table barely fits anyways.  My second thought was the living room, but I'm not 100% sure, so I'm just going to wait it out!!  Currently, it is fulfilling the role of housing breakable storage in the basement.

Until next time!