Her first paint project

Mackenzie was very excited to get started with giving her loft bed a new look.  I explained it was her project from start to finish & she did it ALL.  She wiped down every individual piece and then made a plan to paint.  She didn’t want it to be all blue or all purple.  So she decided which boards to paint what color.  Then the work began . . .

This was a project that I thought would take much longer than it did.  She started it – with my supervision – on a Saturday afternoon and it was finished by Sunday evening. 

I showed her how to paint three sides at a time so once it dried she could flip the pieces to paint the final side.  (You can see pieces leaning up against the wall on the left of the photo above.  The bed was originally a periwinkle purplish color.  The new purple is more vibrant.)

She did a great job!  She even worked mostly by herself including a time period when I was gone for about three hours.  She sought the help of her grandpa when needed – like pouring the paint into the pan and a friend helped paint a little too. 

She was very excited about the final look, especially once we got it assembled.  She opted to paint the ends opposite color patterns to give the bed a fun look.

These colors are great together!  Nice choices, girls.  The bed and dresser compliment each other very nicely.

Makin’ it Hers . . .

Kassi was excited when we found this chest of drawers a few weeks ago at a garage sale.  I – well my pocketbook – was excited too because it was only $15!  What a GREAT find.  Yes, she already has a sturdy old chest of drawers that was handed down from her paternal grandfather.  However, it has been decided to repurpose that one, which she has had since she was born, into an armoire for her hanging clothes (a whole other project to come).

Anyway, it was time to give her new chest of drawers a personality that reflects HER.  As she found out, it is her project so she had to do it from start to finish, which included wiping out and off all the dirt and cobwebs.  YUCK!

Then she learned to trim the piece before she got to paint the body.

Before

                             After

It turned out awesome!  She loves the colors, which I have to say the girls didn’t take too long to decide & agree on a color scheme for their room.  The colors here are Exotic Sea (teal blue), Mirabella (purple – on the feet), and Berry Pink.  What you don’t see is another color that will be added to other pieces in combination of these colors.  What color would you guess?  Well, I’ll tell you the name – Lime Burst.  Once we have the other pieces painted, which won’t be until they arrive from ND, we’ll post some more pictures.