Thrift store Mirrors + a chandelier= FUN!

 I bought 2 of these mirrors at a thrift store for $4 a piece!!!!

 Spray painted them.... (don't be alarmed when you spray a high gloss wood like this and you get these bubbles that won't take paint, when you distress it, it makes it look extra good!)

 sanded and distressed!

 (sorry about the crappy lighting)

Here they are in my daughter's room, I just need to update the picture in the middle of them, and make the photo a bit larger! Love the mirrors! (I also found this chandelier for $5 the same day, and refinished it with the same spray paint! (it was gold) then I hooked some of my left over chandelier crystals on it to add some bling, and hung it above her tea party table (which I also bought at a thrift store the next week, I will post it as soon as I get pics!)

{Jacey} Headboard MAKEOVER!

SO- Our room has been under a re-model since LAST SPRING.

As in Spring of 2011. 

AKA almost ONE year.

Welcome to projects at the Jordan Home.

Uh hum.. especially since SOMEONE thinks its neat to start right up on the next project before the first one is done. whoops.

what can i say?? i like to keep myself busy! :)

So i just need a few more finishing touches and i will share the WHOLE room makeover with you!

On to our NEW headboard---

first things first...

remember how i have a tiny 100 year old home??

oh yeah, well i do. and i love it.

SO- sometimes you have to get creative with furniture!

I used to think it was neat to get a big ol' 6 piece bedroom set,

ya know with a dresser, a chest of drawers, night stands, headboard and footboard, etc etc etc. 

I was really disappointed 3 years ago when we got our house and i was going to be unable to get a "set" due to our space.

Umm... pretty much im SO glad we didnt! 

I dont care how big your space is, 

all that big bulky furniture is just TO MUCH!

Plus, it limits your ability to be creative 

and make your space unique!

Anyway- To the project.

We've never had anything except a mattress and frame for our bed.

Since we've lived here i have been trying to figure out a way to jazz up the bed SOMEWAY so it just didnt look like a frumpy old bed sitting in the corner.

(OHH! Another perk of our small house! Our bed has to be up against one wall. Honestly, the biggest annoyance/nuisance EVER! Do you know how hard it is to make a KING size bed up against a wall every morning?!?! Hard. Trust ME!)

This is what our bed looked like BEFORE with NO headboard.

(Sorry, this is a pic off my instagram, its the only one i had of it without!!)

Ugh...can you say BORING!?!?

Very.

I went back and forth between ideas for MONTHS and MONTHS

of what to do about the situation.

I finally settled on the simplest of all my different ideas.

We have all seen old doors used for headboards on pinterest.

SUCH a cute and simple, easy idea!

Here is the door before.

I spray painted it with a mustard yellow color.

Just one coat.

 I still wanted it to look old so i didn't want to lay it on to thick, especially since it was a gloss paint 

and i definitely did NOT want it glossy!

After painting and curing for a few days 

i sanded her down really good. 

A) to distress it of course,

and B) to get any sharp edges off 

seeing as we'd be resting our heads by this every night!

We hung it on the wall using L Brackets.

We used four along the top, and four along the bottom.

These old doors are HEAVY!

Much heavier than doors these days!

And easy as that-- A whole new look! 

Thanks to my cute husband and brother for hanging her for me!

What do you think?!?

Give me til April and i will show you the whole room!

It's all coming together quite nicely! :)

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{Amanda} Piano makeover! No sanding, or priming!!! (this was supposed to be my Thurs. post, but i will be out of town!)

So, does anyone else have an UGLY piano that creates an eyesore in their home?? I DID!!! I LOVED having it, but I hated how hideous it was, so I took matters into my own hands! I have wanted my man to carry it outside for me so I could use my trusty spray paint (He didn't). I did not want to use oil based paint in my home, and make my kids smell harmful VOC's. I did NOT want to sand it down (especially in my home) so I decided to try latex paint and primer in one by Behr, almost no smell while painting, and NO smell when it dries! It worked Great, It's been 6 weeks since I did it, and I LOVE it!!!

 I used satin latex paint from Behr, in the same color as my trim. I did NOT sand or pretreat the wood before painting! I used a foam brush to do the smaller areas, and a SMALL FOAM roller for the larger areas!

 Please don't mind the black blanket on the bench! This was coat 3, one more to go!

 The reason I haven't done this yet is mainly because you have to take the keys out, etc... to paint the strip around them. Well.... I just decided to leave mine the original stain, DUH!!! WAY easier, less overwhelming, and no one sees it if you keep the lid shut!

 I decided to distress it because my kids are going to anyways! ;) Wait a couple of weeks to let your paint cure before sanding! Until it cures the paint will scrape right off (believe me) I waited 3 weeks after finding that out, and had a hard time getting any paint to sand off!

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 Here she is all done! It went from the ugliest thing in my house to one of my FAVORITE pieces! I LOVE it, and wish I would have done it years ago!!!! I thought it was going to be a lot harder than it actually was! I LOVE colored pianos, mustard yellow, aqua, soooo cute and fun! What can you do with yours????