For today we’ll start with the staircase.
The folks we bought the house from replaced the staircase and railing just before we bought the place, but didn’t bother to do anything with it. When we took over the top of the railing was completely naked wood, and before we even moved into the house the grain of the wood was already starting to raise. I primed it and painted it, but by the time I was done I had slapped paint all over the wrought iron. So since I’d already ruined it, I figured, What the Heck. Might as well try something bold. So I painted it copper. I’m just wild about how it looks up against the paint.
My good furniture karma continues with this piece at the top of the stairs. I got it off of CraigsList for $50. It’s not in the best of shape, but talk about a perfect midcentury modern piece, complete with markings from the original manufacturer. Someday I’ll refurbish this.
Then we have Atti’s nursery, which we’ll save for it’s own day since it’s the only room in the whole house that’s actually finished, a guest room which isn’t worth looking at since it’s a room with a bed in it, and then another bathroom. This was the room that was infamously painted hunter green with airbrushed constellations on the ceiling. The paint was tough for me to pick because this bathroom will serve as Atti’s bathroom, as well as the guest bathroom, so I wanted it to relate to both rooms without it looking like it belonged exclusively to either room. This peachy color was intended as a variation on the orange of The Rookie’s room, while being more grown up to go along with the guest room.
Finally, we have the Master Bedroom. Which is also pretty much a room with a bed in it. I wanted to create a really masculine feeling, with all the colors existing in that vague not quite gray, not quite blue, not quite purple, but I chickened out when I chose the paint colors and now I hate them.
The colors in this photo aren’t quite true, but the contrast color looks very brown instead of charcoally, and the main color looks lavender instead of a milky gray.
You can almost see how purple the paint looks in this image. I think the combo looks just fine, but I had such a specific look in my mind, that I just can’t get over my disappointment that this doesn’t match what’s in my head. I’m sure that I’ll end up repainting this room fairly soon.
And finally, the Master Bathroom. These cabinets were the very last of the wacky paint to go away. Somebody who used to live here had a major soft spot for glazed cabinetry. These were painted seafoam green. Gosh, they were awful. I still plan to get rid of this mirror though.
I learned my lesson with the bad paint choice, so I just went for it and painted these glossy black. They turned out so gorgeous I just want to lick them.
I have big plans up here for bedding and curtains now that I don’t spend every day covered in paint. I’ve already started on a new quilt for our bed which I’m really liking. I’m obviously still squarely in the advanced beginner stage of my quilting. I had some real struggles with getting my backing to line up with my front, and since I’m making it King size the scale just got really difficult to deal with. I’m trying to squeeze out a few rows of machine stitching a day, so maybe one of these days I’ll actually finish something.
The pattern comes from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts. I’m a total cheapskate about buying craft books since most projects seem pretty intuitive to me, but this is one I’d buy five times over. Great projects, great photos, totally inspiring.
Tomorrow: Atticus’ nursery!
