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Monday, February 18, 2013

Re-decorating a Bedroom

As a "woohoo we got some of our tax return" celebration Superman and I redecorated our current bedroom. Before we started it was plain white but had lots of spots on the walls from the previous owners.

You can't really see the stains on the walls but they were there! So we debated colors (ok we didn't really debate I said I like this color and he said ok). So I painted it and it looks so much better!




It took three coats of paint to cover all the walls because of how dark the colors are. Also, same as when I did the bathroom I went around the top of the wall to even out along the ceiling because it was uneven and annoyed me. I then had to go get new curtains- because our other ones were green and just....no. I always forget how expensive curtains are until I have to buy some. Then I framed some cross-stitch works I had made and finally got those hung up. I left enough space so that eventually I can add something else to the wall in between the two designs.  

So there you have it! We have one room left to paint on the main floor of our house (or top level whatever you want to call it) then onto finishing the downstairs!!


Sunday, February 17, 2013

Adding Accents to the bathroom

I have found that I've always looked at things I like and wondered  if I could make them better- and since buying a house and becoming more budget aware I've been wondering that more. So while looking for things to add to our ocean/penguin bathroom we decided on hooks instead of a towel rack since we don't really use a towel rack correctly, we just shove the towel in between the rack and the wall. I found theses pretty hooks on Amazon.com :
Sea Shell Starfish Beach Coat Wall Hooks Home Decor-Set of 3
They are $22 for the set but I still was thinking that was a bit more than I wanted to spend since I wanted four hooks. and while I liked them I didn't LOVE them so I decided to make my own! I have a big bag of sea shells that my Mom bought me last year sometime that I've been slowly using to make things and I decided this would be a wonderful use! So I pulled that out and when I went to Home Depot to return a light-switch that didn't work with our fan's light I got standard robe hooks...


These were $3.28 each. So with my giant bag of shells that was $20 (and I barely made a dent in it) each hook ended up costing between $4-5.

Because of the style of the hook I attached it to the wall first then I used hot glue to attached 2-3 shells per hook. Now, the screws ARE covered, but that is why I used hot glue- because if we need to move the hooks, peeling hot glue off is not impossible. Not easy but not impossible. The end result was:



I like my result much better than the hooks I found on Amazon, and they were a whole lot cheaper! Win!

That's all for now! 

~)O(~ Elfie ~)O(~