We have been up to so much in the last little while. Including our newest addition! No, I didn't have a baby but we did get a Kitty! She is a 16 year old girl from Beijing, China. She gave herself the name Kitty for in Canada. How cool is that to pick your own name! She has only been staying with us for roughly a week but so far it has been great.
Such a change from two loud toddlers. She is quiet and keeps mostly to herself or is often out with friends or her family. She was quite lucky to have had her parents and younger brother come with her to drop her off. Plus Vancouver is such a great vacation spot.
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| Most of the clutter gone! |
I did enjoy getting her room set up. My boys don't exactly notice or care about their rooms. Maybe when they're older but at 4 and 1, it really doesn't phase them. First thing we needed to build a wall. Our original plan was that I would move my craft room into the play room. It is L shaped and we had it curtained off to hold all of our storage (okay, it was mostly junk!). Things when we moved in 2.5 years ago, that haven't been touched since. Pretty sure we're good to get rid of it! Anyways, we decided it would be more practical to keep my craft room the way it is and build a room for Kitty. So once Evan built the wall and put in the door, I was able to paint.
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| Clutter is gone! |
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| The wall is built! |
I picked up a wicked deal on paint at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I love this store. If you've never been, check to see if there is one in your area. It is a home and building supply store that accepts and resells new and used building materials. So it's essentially a thrift store for building supplies! I like that it helps fund local Habitat for Humanity home building projects. Plus it's environmentally friendly because it saves these items from ending up in a landfill. The big container (five gallon) cost me only $50 plus tax for brand name paint! There was nothing wrong with it, it was just a mis-tint (which looks almost the same as the paint in the playroom!). So someones mistake saved me a LOT of money. Not that I needed 5 gallons but I can now paint the laundry room and probably Cooper's bedroom. I quickly touched up the trim and ceiling with the leftover paints from when we did the main bathroom and the room was done!
Now for the fun part! I was able to pick up a bed frame with drawers from a friend (free) and slapped on some DIY chalk paint (eveything I already had). Evan added new slides to the drawers but that was fairly inexpensive. I had the hardware for the drawers but I just wasn't feeling it, so while I was walking through Bibles for Missions Thrift store, I found a baggie of hardware! Only $2. It matched perfectly with the hardware on the dresser.
The dresser I found on bid wars. $10 bucks! What a steal. I'm guessing by the hardware that it was from the 80's but it did the job! The hardware was tarnished and I debated spray painting it but decided to clean it up. I googled how to clean brass and I think I tried them all. Finally I used melamagic from Melaleuca. This stuff is one of my favourite products. It is honestly magic. It polished them up so nicely. I decided to do a second clean, to see if I could get them even shinier and forgot about them over night. So the water lifted the paint that was on them. Whoops. But I actually liked them this way! So I "stripped" the rest, leaving one set with the white paint on them. I gave the dresser a quick coat of my DIY chalk paint. And then used my silhouette to make a stencil and I stenciled on little triangles onto the drawers. So cute!
Not long before we decided to get an international student. I planned to sell the desk I had bought for $5 a few years earlier. It's technically a kids desk but I didn't know that when I got it. It has these cute hairpin legs and knowing that they're super trendy right now, I thought I could totally sell this desk. Nobody bid on it. Not a single person. WHY?! Hot pink hairpin legs! I was shocked. So I thought maybe it's the colour. I spray painted them flat black and before I finished painting them, we decided on a student! This is perfect, I had a desk and it is the cutest little desk!
My parents were helpful by lending us a wardrobe and nightstand from their empty loft. Plus I found a cute brass picture frame at HomeSense to help tie in the whole "theme" as well as a great little mirror that was on clearance for only $14. A desk chair from Ikea and a simple rug from Walmart and we have a room! I tried calculating it all out, with the cost of the wall and a new mattress, we paid under $800 to build and furnish an entire room. These are bargains that I like!
Hopefully she likes it as much as I do. What do you think?
Now for the fun part! I was able to pick up a bed frame with drawers from a friend (free) and slapped on some DIY chalk paint (eveything I already had). Evan added new slides to the drawers but that was fairly inexpensive. I had the hardware for the drawers but I just wasn't feeling it, so while I was walking through Bibles for Missions Thrift store, I found a baggie of hardware! Only $2. It matched perfectly with the hardware on the dresser.
The dresser I found on bid wars. $10 bucks! What a steal. I'm guessing by the hardware that it was from the 80's but it did the job! The hardware was tarnished and I debated spray painting it but decided to clean it up. I googled how to clean brass and I think I tried them all. Finally I used melamagic from Melaleuca. This stuff is one of my favourite products. It is honestly magic. It polished them up so nicely. I decided to do a second clean, to see if I could get them even shinier and forgot about them over night. So the water lifted the paint that was on them. Whoops. But I actually liked them this way! So I "stripped" the rest, leaving one set with the white paint on them. I gave the dresser a quick coat of my DIY chalk paint. And then used my silhouette to make a stencil and I stenciled on little triangles onto the drawers. So cute!
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