{saturdays yardsale delivered & a chalkboards on the way}

The story goes like this:


I have been looking for something to turn into a chalkboard for a while now... Saturday I went to a ginormous yard sale and there she was, Mrs. I've Seen Better Days waiting for little old me to sweep her off her feet and give her a little makeover from a has-been mirror to a I-can-hardly-keep-my-hands-off-you chalkboard!

Wanna see???

One step forward in the kitchen/dining/family room makeover direction! I wasn't sure what exactly I'd use the blue tinted glass jar for when I first got it, other than decoration of course.. but now I think I'll use it to hold chalk! I'm just itching to condition the chalkboard and start writing out my weekly menu's and daily words of wisdom! 

To find the right vintage blue/green color of paint, I took the lid of my Martha Stewart teapot my mom gave me for Mother's Day, the teapot that started this whole change of color scheme and makeover... and matched it to a Dutch Boy color at Walmart called "Escape #G004."

{note to self (or husband I guess I should say): when I take everything off the walls to repaint... rehang the chalkboard with an even amount of wall on each side.}

{sneek peek: boy's room makeover in progress}

Okay, so I FINALLY finished the paint job in the boy's new room.. and I thought I'd post a picture! I'm very pleased with the way it turned out, the orange is so vibrant and the navy blue stripe and ceiling were just the look I was going for. Keep in mind though, the room itself is STILL at a very incomplete stage. Now it's time to start looking for the bedding, accessories, lighting, curtains, and to decorate the place. In the meantime, they are still using their old airplanes bedding which is really bugging me because it so doesn't match... AND I'm not to sure about the color of the table that I got for them to build legos, do projects/homework on, now that it's in the newly painted room.. so I now possibly have myself yet ANOTHER project on my list of "to-do's" to change the color of their table. If I do end up wanting to change it, that will be the last thing I do. We'll see... 

The table I got for inside the corner to create that Pottery Barn type setup with the beds works quite perfectly though, so that put a smile on my face and the kids are totally loving it too!!! They think their new room ROCKS and it's not even near being finished yet. The whole set up will look much better once I get the bedding I want, with extra pillows and a bed skirt so you can't see the bottom frame of the bed. One step at a time though, right... 

I love these glass jars for storing things, aren't they gritty??? This is Marcus' rock collection, he keeps a little magnifying glass in it so he can look at all the crystals and variations in the different rocks. This is sitting as a center piece on their table for now. I still need to get a big set of shelves to display and store a lot of their stuff too.

 

.. And here is one of those two old schoolhouse chairs I was so fortunate to run across to accompany their table. LoVe them...

I have loads of ideas running through my head and am hoping to find everything I want to incorporate into their room and for good deals. Right now the bedding is giving me a bit of a headache, because I've only found two sets that I would really consider and one doesn't come with all the pieces, and they are both much more pricey than I would like. My search goes on.. if I absolutely can't find anything else than I guess I'll just have to delay my instant gratification and save for them. Arrgghhh.... 

~sandee.

{update: moving boys to a different room}

Okay.. the orange paint is finally finished!!! It took longer than I'd hoped because we had so many other things going on this week and I needed my man to help me tape off the line for the navy stripe along the top of the wall. I can't wait to post pictures of it, but I want to wait until I finish painting the top of the wall/ceiling navy and get a few things moved into place. I'm sure there will be numerous updates because I won't be able to acquire everything I want for their room all at once. Speaking of everything I want for their room... I found some more rooms of inspiration through one of my favorite catalogs Land of Nod. Notice the orange & blue together throughout, LoVe it! I'm really liking this solar system bedding a lot... I'm thinking it would possibly be a better choice for the boys, it doesn't seem as juvenile as the one I first saw at Company Kids, although it's really cute & would work too.

Aren't these pieces of vintage wall art so nostalgic and gritty to say the least.. I'm pretty sure I might have incorporate these into the decor of the room.-

{top of the project priority list}

Moving the boys to a different room: 

• some may remember my post on my personal blog this time last year about my thoughts of switching the boys room and trying to figure out a way to create this fabulous space saving bed set-up without buying it for the astronomical Pottery Barn price. WELL... I think I might have figured something out!!! {mine won't include the great storage underneath, at least for now.. but the basic set-up is better than nothin'}. I'll post pictures as soon as I get it all put together in the room, but first I'm...
• repainting: I was going to do a tan color but then decided to go with more color {does that surprise anybody}, then I was going to do a green with a navy blue stripe on the top continuing onto the ceiling {like space} but then I didn't like the green so I've officially decided on ORANGE and we are all LOVING it so far. It has me wondering why I've never done an orange room in my house as of yet... It will still have the navy blue stripe & ceiling. Inspiration for painting the room this way came from this bedding & this gritty light that I plan on incorporating into the room.
• so fortunate: I was also WAY excited to get two of those OLD SCHOOLHOUSE CHAIRS from the photo below. There is a lovely blog I follow daily and about a month ago she posted that she had bought six of these chairs at a furniture consignment store and found that she only needed four. She said to email her if you were interested in the other two. I ended up being the first to email her and the BEST part of the whole thing is that she gave them to me for FREE!!! Now I was able to mark off finding two unique chairs for the other table I'd found for them to sit at and build legos, do projects, etc... 

~sandee.