The One Where She Spray Tanned Some Owls

OK so not quite a spray tan as such- I have already used the spray paint which i bought from my local German bargain supermarket to make this frame turn from cream to glossy white...

Since then I have also used it to spray this papermache 8 which i bought a few weeks ago

And nailed it here...

(The other thing i want to add to the gallery wall is this bunch of cast iron keys, but i want to hang them on a white hook - so one is in the booth waiting for its treatment...)

Then we get round to these two beauties who in all honesty were feeling a bit sorry for themselves!
Something i saw on Pinterest was buying old ornaments from charity shops/car boots/eBay and giving them a white glossy spray tan. So that's what I did. I bought this sorry pair from eBay for £2

After a few coats of paint they were transformed into these

Don't get me wrong in their au-natural state they would have fitted in just fine with the current decor of our living room (please see below for proof) but what the heck its any excuse in this house to whip the spray can out!

Second Bedroom/Office Make Over

Well this post ISN'T about the airing cupboard being updated; turns out the back of the door needed quite a few coats of paint and i still haven't finished painting it yet (or cleaning the pain off the carpet- oops!)

Instead its a little re-cap of our second bedroom makeover. We actually finished it quite a while ago but since its always messy I haven't had a chance to take photos of the finished article..until now! (I just moved the mess round the room as i photographed the different sides ha ha)

So here is what the room looked like on the day we moved in:

All of the walls and ceiling (of course!) were covered in woodchip paper painted magnolia. Lovely!
 Like the rest of the house the furniture was left from the previous owner. So we dismantled the wardrobe, took it to the tip with the mattress off the bed, ebayed the rest of the furniture (I was surprised how much you can get for old furniture!) except for the bed frame which Max's mum took for his old bedroom at home. She sprayed the frame cream and it looked amazing when she had done it- i only wish i had thought of that myself!

So we lived with the room like this for quite a while- we used it as a dumping ground for all the boxes of stuff we hadn't unpacked yet as you can see in the next pic where we had started stripping the wallpaper

 Of course underneath the woodchip lay 3 other layers of paper, the blue 1970's design you can see here, a pink and grey checkered wallpaper and last but not least this 1950's children's bedroom paper with slightly scary animals

After all the paper was stripped (the wood chip on the ceiling came down in one big sheet!) the walls were in good order so I painted the ceiling- i chose a good quality 1 coat white paint because painting the ceiling is too much like hard work to paint 2 coats!

Once the ceiling was painted we painted the back wall of the room a raspberry pink colour called Euphoria by Crown. The other walls we painted in Dulux Classics Scent Bottle, which is a very very light pink/purple/grey colour. Although we went a bit crazy with the accent wall, we have tried to keep the palette in the house quite similar so it flows better. 

 As you can see we added some furniture- 

Expedit Bookcase from..you guessed it Ikea! -i wanted the bigger one but this one fitted in the car and the delivery costs were more than we paid for the actual item!

New desk also from Ikea- which we bought when we first moved in the house and it sat in a box for a bit. 
The chair is from a vintage shop-called De Ja Vu

The drawers and mirror are old pine ones we already had which we painted white. 

The bed is a double divan - the cushions are from Ikea and Primark- the teddy is one which I've had since a child.

Accessories include the white lamps which are from Ikea, the gold alarm clock is from a carboot, the big pink heart box is our wedding box with all bits and pieces in, the notice board and clock behind the desk are from Ikea (we are keeping the Warrington branch open!) and the antique gold picture stand/ipad stand is from a carboot!

This noticeboard is a basic cork board covered in world map wrapping paper from John Lewis, which has all the ticket stubs pinned on from our travels. The blue and gold mask is from Mexico.

We sold the curtains which are the windows- both pairs sold on eBay for £30! At a local fabric shop i bought some floral pattered cotton for £2 per meter- working out at £11 for enough to make roman blinds for both windows which Max's mum very kindly made for us

The other side of the room...

The rocking chair we bought on eBay about a year a go for £10, a throw which we bought in Mexico and some unmatching cushions :)

I use this room the most in the house- working from home, and doing all my crafty bits and pieces. I am getting a sewing machine at the end of the month for my birthday so i need to make some room for it! 

Things still to do in the room:

1. Get/Make a headboard for the bed
2. Get a rug 
3. Make some new cushions for the rocking chair which actually match the room!
4. Take some of the books off the shelves and put them in storage until we get the new bookcases we are planning for the living room. Then i can put more of my crafty stuff on there as it rapidly expands and my new sewing machine!