Hello! It seems like its been so long since Ive blogged but however long its been, Im so glad to be back. If you follow us on Facebook, you know that my hubby had a health emergency come up. He was diagnosed with a heart problem and ended up in the hospital having a few tests run and thankfully, the tests came out good. I want to say thank you to each and everyone of you who prayed for him and our family. It truly meant the world to us. He is on the mend and we are slowly getting back to a normal routine again.
Quite honestly, the whole thing shook us both up so much that I havent even wanted to blog or work on any project. I wanted to spend all my time with him and our kids. I even considered stopping blogging altogether. But my creativity seems to be coming back and Im looking forward to getting back to the projects I was working on.
I was in the middle of redoing our middle sons room. His room is tiny and so making it work has been a huge issue. Plus, he is tall and must have a double bed instead of a twin so the first thing on the list after getting the bed was a headboard. Of course, it had to be cheap so I knew I was going to make it myself. I didnt want to do the same thing I did for our other sons room and had always wanted to make a headboard from an old door, we just couldnt find the right door, until a few months ago. So, I got to work.
Ive been so absent minded lately so unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the door before I cut it down and added the molding. But here it is before I painted it. I wanted to use a door that had the same size panels all the way down. I measured the width of his bed and added a couple of inches just to be safe, then measured and cut the door to size. Then I removed all hardware and filled the holes with spackle.
I added crown molding and a top piece to finish it off. Im not about to try to do a tutorial on making miter cuts and return pieces for molding.
Mine are never perfect and I always end up with a big pile of mess ups as it is always a trial and error kind of thing for me. Im sure there are lots of tutorials out there that are a lot better than anything I could show you. Faster, too.
After all that, I filled the holes and painted the entire piece.
Heres how it looks now before I put it in the room. I still need to add a brace to the bottom so I can attach it to the wall. I will blog about that when its finished and show you how it looks in the room. I cant wait to put it all together with the bedding I bought for him from West Elm. Love their bedding! So thats it for now!
Thank you for visiting today! Enjoy your day!
Diana
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Quite honestly, the whole thing shook us both up so much that I havent even wanted to blog or work on any project. I wanted to spend all my time with him and our kids. I even considered stopping blogging altogether. But my creativity seems to be coming back and Im looking forward to getting back to the projects I was working on.I was in the middle of redoing our middle sons room. His room is tiny and so making it work has been a huge issue. Plus, he is tall and must have a double bed instead of a twin so the first thing on the list after getting the bed was a headboard. Of course, it had to be cheap so I knew I was going to make it myself. I didnt want to do the same thing I did for our other sons room and had always wanted to make a headboard from an old door, we just couldnt find the right door, until a few months ago. So, I got to work.
Ive been so absent minded lately so unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the door before I cut it down and added the molding. But here it is before I painted it. I wanted to use a door that had the same size panels all the way down. I measured the width of his bed and added a couple of inches just to be safe, then measured and cut the door to size. Then I removed all hardware and filled the holes with spackle.I added crown molding and a top piece to finish it off. Im not about to try to do a tutorial on making miter cuts and return pieces for molding.Mine are never perfect and I always end up with a big pile of mess ups as it is always a trial and error kind of thing for me. Im sure there are lots of tutorials out there that are a lot better than anything I could show you. Faster, too.After all that, I filled the holes and painted the entire piece.
Heres how it looks now before I put it in the room. I still need to add a brace to the bottom so I can attach it to the wall. I will blog about that when its finished and show you how it looks in the room. I cant wait to put it all together with the bedding I bought for him from West Elm. Love their bedding! So thats it for now!Thank you for visiting today! Enjoy your day!
Diana
How to Organize Your Keyring
Sometimes it seems I just have too many BIG projects to complete! So, when I find something I can accomplish quickly and easily and that will bring some order and some "pretty" into my life, I am very happy. Not a home improvement idea, but I had to share this...
So, here is a look at my key ring, the way it was...not so pretty.
Plenty of keys that I have no clue what they are for and a ton of those annoying cards.
See, not pretty, not pretty at all.
But, wait..now take a look
How much better is this?? 3 steps for this simple satisfaction..
Ghosts from the Titanic
I used the cheaper wood from Lowes that is full of knot holes and it cost me a little under $100 to build. I followed this tutorial, somewhat. It took me an afternoon to build and I painted and added the barn wood the next day. Not too bad as far as being time consuming. And it really wasnt as hard as I thought it was going to be. Ive wanted to build one forever but always felt it was too intimidating. It wasnt once I got started.
I am so happy with it and really, when I look at it, I cant believe I did it. I know my dad would be super proud.
For the top, I used an extra thick piece of barn wood that I sanded down and waxed.
I decided against using candles in the box as I didnt want to be worried about wax dripping everywhere, which seems to always be a problem when I group candles together and burn them. Luckily, there is an outlet directly behind the barn wood so I cut a small hole in the wood to provide an opening so I could plug in the lights and have it be perfectly hidden.
Cant wait to decorate it for the holidays!!