My (almost) teenagers bedroom

Today I want to share with you my oldest daughter (aka Thing 1)'s bedroom.

When we moved into this house, she was in Gr.3 (8 yrs old) 

We bought this house as a 3 bedroom, but have since added a 4th (story for another post)

This bedroom and the master were both this chocolate brown color, and had just been freshly painted so I was in no rush to repaint, I just tried to work with the color it was. 

For the master it was great, the dark color was cozy, warm and wee bit romantic....

But for an 8 yr olds room it was dark and drab, so I added as much pops of color as possible with out making it look like a rainbow threw up......fail! lol

Just looking at those photos, makes me a little depressed.....so dark and dreary!

Last summer Thing 1 went away to summer camp for 9 days (and nights), so I got right to work on a surprise bedroom makeover

First I found the bedding (Bed, Bath

 & Beyond), then I matched curtains, and then the wall paint color, and then I painted her existing dresser white and added new handles, i picked up a new night table for $5 at a yard sale, and that got a few coats of white and 2 new handles,  the bed and headboard we had in the basement, so I just painted the headboard white. 

Lastly was decor, I ordered this Marilyn quote off ebay 

It suits Thing 1 perfectly!

I love how bright the room looks and feels now, and how much bigger!

Thing 1 was so excited to see her room.....but 20 minutes after she was home it looked like a bomb went off in there......teenagers!!

Fynn was there waiting for her to show her the  room!

Next post I will show you another bedroom in our house!

Dining room update

Since I posted about my dining room, I decided to refinish the china cabinet.

This is what it looked like before....

My mom gave me this when we moved into this house, it is filled with her first china set she bought when she was 17. 

Here is the finished result! 

The china set is white with gold leaves, in the glass on the doors, it has gold etching, it all goes so nice together.

And then I tripped over the dog, put my hands out to steady my fall and put my right arm through the glass on one of the doors, smashing the glass...I am lucky that I didn't need stitches, but now I am upset because of the ruined glass.... I can easily have another glass piece cut, but not so easily the gold on the glass....I am thinking I will replace booth piece with just plain glass....that's the simplest thing to do....my poor dog, She is a black lab mix and she likes to lay right by where ever I am....I am always tripping over her, but have never fallen before.....she feels so bad.