Hiatus!

Whoops! It's been awhile since I updated, and I have some impatient "followers"...haha! Sorry! I wish I could say I was busy, but that is certainly not the case. Well, we have been kind of busy doing projects, but not busy enough to use it as an excuse :) This weekend we are going to be picking up our chair, and the nursery will be close to d-o-n-e! I promise to post pictures Sunday!

We have also been busy redoing the furniture in our bedroom. My handy husband built us a floating headboard and an end of the bed trunk..wait till you see! We really wanted a new bedroom suite, but knew that now was probably not the best time to invest in one, as other things are going to take priority (diapers, diapers, diapers)!! So, we got creative and Luke made us some really neat pieces. There is an unfinished furniture place down the road that was having a moving sale, and they were selling old kitchen cabinets. We snatched up about 8 of them, in all different sizes, for under 20.00. Luke used them on the headboard and chest. 

The cabinets are such nice quality... you really could have redone an entire kitchen with the selection!

    

             

 Here is the trunk, obviously in the works...

Our old, and by old I mean..my Dad's ;), Ethan Allen dresser. Great quality, but it looked like it popped out of the 60's

He added some molding, to kind of marry the 4 pieces...

We have 3 more to attach to this cheap dresser from Ikea (it's out of stock right now). Luke is going to add some decorative molding and the cabinets to the drawers...betcha' it won't look like a 29.99 dresser then! :) I had seen it advertised on a couple of other crafty blogs, which is why it is probably out of stock! You just need to look past the ugliness of it, and create a vision (AND add some new hardware)!

 Initially, I had a panic attack over the paint color I chose, but ended up loving it (after 3 coats of paint). It is impossible to find a brown espresso paint color. The one I chose has a gray tone to it, which is what made me panic, but it looks nice with our taupe/aqua color theme. 

I will also post finished pictures of the furniture this weekend. First, my hubby needs to get that chest up our 2 flights of stairs..it weighs A LOT. 

I'll have to give him his steroids this weekend :)