Procrastination...My Friend

Today has been a serious procrastination day.  Okay admittedly I got to do some thrifting and helped mom buy a cool old recliner.  By help her buy I mean Will & I picked it up at the Flea Market and carried it up the flight of stairs.  Ooh was my back killing me after that, it was sore to begin with but now it kills just to stand up straight.

Didn't find a whole bunch of goodies at the thrift store but just enough to add to the pile of "stuff".  The good news is that everything we bought is coming in as is, I do not have to re-do any of it.  After much procrastinating I finally took my butt downstairs and sanded the first layer of shiny paint off the old desk I bought to replace my oh so lovely particle board desk that I've had for 8yrs now.  I'm really excited to see how it turns out.  I'm a bit twisted on the paint color though, I'm not sure if I want it the same light gray as the nite stand I redid a couple days ago, or if I want it slightly darker.  The room itself is an aqua blue with one gray stone colored accent wall.  All the frames on the wall are either white or black.  Then I have GISLEV rug that we got from Ikea down.

I really like the shade of gray, it's not as dark as our wall and not nearly as light as the nite stand.  So I keep thinking would the desk look better in a similar shade as the rug?  As you can see I am seriously conflicted, I would like it all to match but at the same time I don't want it to be to matchy matchy since none of the pieces in our room are in the same style. I suppose in the end I will decide right before I start to actually paint, that's how I usually work anyways.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and thank you to all of the lovely ladies who left me comments on my hutch redo.

The Non-Shabby Side

So I've made it pretty clear that most of our apartment is to be decorated in the "shabby chic" style.  I love pastel colors & distressed furniture.  However with that being said the one room in our house without a theme is our bedroom.  I have the blue walls I've dreamed off and with the black & white frames I've wanted displayed, however things are a bit eclectic in here.  The only real theme is my love for the artwork of Kurt Halsey.  However after stalking many bloggers lately I'm starting to feel my/our room is a bit to young.  I've spent a lot of money on this artwork and really hate letting it go, so I figured I'd sale off some small pieces and keep the big ones and start slowly adding some new artwork instead.

Today will be the fresh start the room needs.  I again forgot to take a before picture of a mirror I've had hanging in here.  In fact it was in my room before we moved only wearing different colors.  In it's first life it was an icky tacky gold color.  I spray painted it purple then when we moved I decided pink was my new favorite color and so it was painted ballet slipper color.  On my wall it has hung for about 10yrs now.  The other day I decided she needed to lose the mirror all together and get a white paint job (mainly white because I don't have black paint & I found these usually expensive black box shelves at Goodwill for $3.99).  Now she is all dressed & ready for her new debut as a frame.

Pictures to come soon.  I'll also be working on the top of our large wardrobe.  There is quite a bit of space up there  that needs filling up.  I'm waiting on a hand sander so I can sand it down & paint it. Anyone have any experience sanding down Ikea furniture?  Obviously this is not one of the natural wood pieces.  It's a nice large piece we got at the end of the last season for $49 marked down.  I'll update with a picture shortly.

Hectic Times

It's been really crazy around here lately.  My uncle is in the hospital for multiple reasons that I don't want to go into.  Due to that my mom has talked herself horse so I've been helping her deal with all the talking and phone calls that are having to be made.  On the positive side Saturday is Will and I's 3 year anniversary, we are planning to go to dinner for the first time instead of me cooking.  I've also been hitting up the Goodwill's & thrift stores the last few days.  I think I got some rather promising goodies (pics will be coming soon).  We've also started our floor project for the hallway.  We pulled up the ugly horrid green what seems like outdoor carpeting, which didn't take as long as we expected.  It's all prepped & ready for the new tiling to be laid which I will start today.  I'm excited to see it finished because I know it's going to look amazing with the new paint colors. 
We're also going to take down the closet door & put up drapes instead.  I hope it looks as great as I've seen on other blogs.

Stay tuned for pics of my thrifty goodies as well as the before & afters of the hallway/landing floor redo.