TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY....ROMANTIC ROOM

Just a few short weeks ago I revealed some of my new bedroom (it was formerly the babys nursery) we gave up our bigger room for her to have a bigger room and also to have a napping bed for my 4 year old downstairs.

I so generously let me husband choose color scheme in the room after I chose the paint color Valspar Silver Leaf.   Our antique furniture is already painted an antique white and it has black metal knobs.   You all know this by now....he is from the islands more specifically The Commonwealth of Dominica and loves bright colors.  Especially the ones in his flag green, yellow, red.

Very bright colors

I agreed to the yellow after seeing a Target flyer with some an awesome yellow bedspread and some great sheets on sale.   I ran, I bought, I facebooked & tweeted my cart .  

This is how it turned out...I love the yellow but from the beginning it was working for me.   I designed an Olio board with yellow/gray/white and it was fabulous.

 Somehow my bedroom just wasn't doing it for me, so this weekend I did some rearranging and came up with a whole new Romantic look which is how I think the bedroom should be anyway.

It's a more neutral color palette....that fabulous oatmeal colored bedcover brought some warmth to this space.

I havent been able to find a dress form anywhere.....so whats a girl to do.  Make you own, well kinda.  I used a store mannequin form and covered it with ripped up pieces of dictionary pages.   I call her my Book Work Muse! lol

My side of the bed...a little sweet vignette of vintage goodies

My book worm wanted to wear her collection of pearl necklaces just for you today

 

My mercury glass bird candlestick...bowl of creamy lovelies...vintage Bingo card and a silvery wallet

Creamy ribbon, rosette, linen strips with a Christmas ball in a glass bowl what a simple sweet accent

I had this moden Ikea gallery shelf already in place (couldnt move it) so I worked with it.  I added a HUGE vintage tray I got for FREE, some photos of me and my love.  I also added 2 sweet plates I purchased almost 2 years ago on Ebay.  They have silver and gold accents.   The oval mirror is a Home Goods find from 2008 while hubs was in Iraq.  Part of  a homecoming makeover.

I had these silvery curtains from Kmart and I used a white Pier 1 square tablecloth and tacked in underneath to give more layers.   I had to keep my Michele Beschen (B.Original) junk art from my appearance on Nate show)

This is my dresser (yes you can see it's primed but not finished) Im working on it. lol 

Above is my mini wall of mirrors.  Ive had these for years and they've been everywhere.   I also display all of my vintage jewelry (most of my grandmothers) on homemade stands from vintage plates and glass candlesticks.

Redesigned Craigslist lamp with new pleated HomeGoods shade.  My loves dogtags are always on his nightstand.

My husbands dresser...of course I had to put away all of the change and receipts that he leaves on top. lol

A photo of us from The Marine Corps ball back in 2005

Pages of a dictionary and a rosary made of rope

Here is a view of from the foot of the bed.  I want to do some tweaking still but not sure with what..maybe a chandelier over my muse on the left...

Vintage pillow case coverlet it was my grandmother's...she sewed the 2 pieces  together at some point I think 

They say Amor Mio and they are so beautiful and soft.

Here is a closer photo of the window wall 

Here is the closeup of the junk art....Michele took everything in my kitchen junk drawer and turned it into this.  You can see scissors, craft paint, letter magnet, screws, a baby thermometer. lol

I didnt buy anything new for this space for this redesign, however the bedspread you see is new.  I purchased it last week to use as curtains in the living room.    Do you wanna know what it really is..........a painter's drop cloth!   Yep, that sucker only cost $9.99 from Lowe's and it's the medium size one and fits my queen size bed.   I washed it HOT water twice and dried it with fabric softener sheets.   It is so awesome and it has an oatmeal color to it which goes so well with the white & gray.   So now my color scheme is more warm, creamy and oh so romantic.

 

SHOW AND TELL FRIDAY @ MY ROMANTIC HOME

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY...BLAH BLANK WALL

What do you do with a blank wall in a nursery?    Go to Home Goods of course.   If ever Im in need of inspiration I go to HG.....so Sunday while out Junkin with my old friend Liza we decided we wanted to stop into HG and see what they had.

So we browsed the aisles and there was alot of Oooooo look at this, and Ohhhh I like that!  Of course I always check the clearance sections and on this day I spotted a wall decal.    I had purchased some mirrored ones on clearance after Christmas but this was a bird cage!

Hellooooooooooooooooo  I've been tweeking this nursery for almost a month now.   So I have been searching for vinyl wall designs with a bird cage them but I hadn't really found any that I was over the moon about.

Here is the before wall...you can see the blah blankness

This one appealed to me because it has a mercury glass/mirror effect and the goldtone kinda looks brown so I checked the price....$3.00 are you freakin kidding?     Of course I took it and I got home and up it went!

Here it is and I love it....but it looks so lonely, so what do I do now (this photo was taken around 7p.m. and its still sunny, but it's Sunday and HG closes at 8)

So I jump in the car and call HG on my cell (I have them in my contacts...yes I know I'm an HG addict and they're my supplier.lol)    She says they are in fact closing right at that moment.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH  so I explain to her what I just purchased and asked if she can grab me whatever bird cage designed wall decals are left.      She puts me on hold.....my heart is racing and she finally gets back on the phone and says....Hi I was able to find 2 for you! 

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

I told her I would be there the next day, and so with the kiddos in tow today and sick as a dog from these allergies I went to HG and picked up my birdcages for $6.00

And....here they are now!

See how pretty the mirrored finish is....I love them!

There is a bird in the cage and also and extra for outside but that would be too matchy..matchy.   So I let them spread their wings......

One is perched above Mama's vision board

The other landed on the faux nest wall art that I made especially for the room.

I left just one bird out and about near the cages...

So a blah wall has been transformed again from one of my Home Goods clearance rescues!

This was the total of my original purchase :

decal - $3.00

birdhouse - $3.50

mercury bird candleholder - $3.00

YES....all under $10!

Even after the return trip for 2 more @ $3.each that only adds $6. for a crazy $16.00 total.    The wall still only cost me only  $9 of that $16!

I think Im going to start a New Jersey support group for Home Goods addicts....or I could be like Eddie Ross and give tours and give people ideas of what they can do with all the fab things they find.

HAHAHAHA....a girl can dream!

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY.....FIREPLACE RE-DESIGN

I have a passion, love, addiction, disorder for taking things and transforming them.   Whether it is with paint or dismantling its parts or re-purposing it in a non-expected way.

I've decided to do a weekly feature post and call it TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY.  I wish I could do a linky party....but I haven't traveled to that side of blogland yet.   Maybe I can do some research and turn it into a weekly link up party.

Here is my 1st Transformation Tuesday project:


I found my fireplace on Craigslist last year when we first moved to the new house.    It was large which I liked but I wasn't thrilled that it was oak.

I finally decided during the other re-designs that I would tackle this project as well....so you all know how it looked before.

Here it is in it's original purchase condition

Some sanding was needed as you can see on the bottom left I tried just going right over......not happening!  I had to lightly sand the entire fireplace first.

Here is what it looked like the middle of my 50% trial..  I used Valspar Very Black.

Here it is now....

I'm very happy with the finish.....you can still see the woodgrain through the paint job. I kept the accessories very simple but still within our exotic island theme in the living room.  I think 90% of the accessories in my house are from Home Goods.   They just have the best selection of accessories for every color, theme, style!

Hope you will come back next week for the #2 TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY feature!

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