LC Interior: March 2015

The Hutch Makeover

4:09 PM

Bedroom Makeover Updates March

10:19 PM

So, recently I have been doing some shopping and have come across some much needed things for my room, and for a pretty great price!! Marshalls, Home Goods, and Walmart are some of my favorite places to get things for my room and at a great price!

Lamp Shade —-> $12.95 Walmart

I had the lamp base from a bedroom when I was a kid, but it was some awful pink color. A while back I had spray painted it white and since the old lampshade had some weird embellishment on it {and I had lost it so I wasn’t even able to fix it up with a little DIY} I was using the lamp in my room without a lamp shade and it was AWFUL! Lamp shades can be expensive, so I had been putting off buying one but I decided to finally bite the bullet and when I found one for only $13 I had to get it!

Isaac Mizrahi Comforter —> $59.99 Marshalls

The comforter set was something I had been looking at buying for a while {not this one specifically} but a comforter in general.

Rug —> $200.00 at HomeGoods

I also recently purchased this awesome rug from Home Goods for only $200!! Finding a rug large enough to fit nicely in my large room at a decent price is a challenge so I was lucky to have found this gem at such a great price!

Some of the other awesome pieces I have in my room {but I have had for a while} include this beautiful side table that I got for FREE from Jake. I simply repainted the side table with a little leftover paint and it looks amazing now!

Since I currently live with two other people, there isn’t exactly enough room for me to have my own office space. Luckily, my room is large enough for me to incorporate my office space into my room. I have a deal that used to be in my little brothers room that I repainted to give it a fresh clean look and a file cabinet that I purchased to keep all of my misc paperwork in.

Desk—>FREE!!

See Jane Work File Cabinet —>$79.99 at Office Depot

Now, I know that $79.99 seems like a lot for a file cabinet, but I cannot tell you how worth it purchasing this file cabinet was!

See Jane Work® Kate File/Seat, 18 1/2″H x 15 3/8″W x 18 1/8″D, White

There is also this lamp that I spray painted Krylon Brushed Nickel and use as a desk lamp. It used to be this awful redish orange color that didn’t go with any decor. Now it matches the decor of my room perfectly!

Table Lamp —>FREE!!

And then there is my dresser, which my aunt wasn’t using at her house anymore, so she offered to give it to me which I gladly accepted!! It was originally cherry wood, but it was beat up and needed some TLC. I repainted it and spray painted the original hardware to give it the upgrade it needed to match the decor of my room. It wasn’t easy deciding what the upgraded it needed was, and I tried a lot of different combinations before finally settling on this…

Dresser —> FREE!!

I will make sure to post I continue to update my bedroom. I am hoping to have my dream bedroom soon. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done, but it is coming along!

DIY

Dining Room Chairs Turned Desk Chairs

8:34 PM

Bathroom

The Powder Room Makeover

4:23 PM

So I was painting a desk and bookshelves for my mom when I decided to go ahead and paint her bathroom too. On the main floor of her townhouse there was this awful bathroom painted in a color that reflected an orange tint. Now, I cannot stress this enough, I HATE the color yellow or anything with a yellow tint {which includes orange}. I had enough of the paint I had used to paint her desk and bookshelves left over and decided it would be the perfect color for her bathroom.

For the first step, I painted the bathroom {{insert color here}}. This made a huge difference!! NO MORE ORANGE!!

The second step was to spray paint the hardware fixtures. Around the lights was a silver fixture that really didn't go with the decor that we were going with. I decided to spray paint them with a black metallic finish. I also went through and painted the electrical plates and the other fixtures such as the towel rack, etc with the black metallic paint.

I also replaced the light bulbs that were in the light fixture to reflect a more white light rather than the yellow light it had been reflecting before, and since the bulbs were exposed I got more visually appealing round bulbs.

Note that the before pictures of the lights and the cabinets are not from the same bathroom. I forgot to take before pictures *oops, but they look exactly the same as the ones I refinished.

The third step was to paint the cabinets. Like I have said before, I am not a fan of grainy wood. We decided to simply paint the cabinets white. We sanded them down and then painted them with Behr Ultra Pure White Semi-Gloss paint to give them a fresh, clean look.

The final step was to paint the trim with a fresh coat of paint. We used the same semi-gloss paint we used on the cabinets to continue to give the bathroom a clean crisp look!

I cannot tell you how badly I had been dying to paint this bathroom. It seriously made me cringe every time I went inside or even just walked by. Like many rooms in my mom's townhouse, the bathroom was extremely small and was painted with one of the worst colors possible. I stand firm in my belief that when decorating a small house, always paint rooms light colors that are calming tones {blues, greens, whites, grays, etc}. It made the biggest difference in this bathroom. The next steps will be to replace the mirror with one that has a little more character, and then tear up the flooring and replace it with tile, but that's a while down the road.