Broxton 10 Months

Big Girl Room - DIY Furniture

I have been dreaming up ideas for Gwen's Big Girl room for quite a while. Maybe since she was born.. ha ha! I have a Pinterest board that I have full of my ideas. I wanted to do something kinda ecletic. A little vintage and a little modern mixed together. I had an idea of the type of furniture pieces that I wanted. I originally wanted a 'Jenny Lind' spindled style bed. But then I also really like a vintage rod iron looking bed. I ended up going with a new reproduction of the metal iron bed style. I liked that it was more modern, with clean lines but was an old style. Then I decided I really wanted a French Provincial style dresser. I got the crazy idea we should refinish it ourselves. I'm always reading up on various blogs. And I kept seeing people refinish similiar style pieces with chalk paint. So I started stalking Craiglist and I stumbled across the perfect set. It was actually a complete set. But I had in mind using mix matched pieces and the two pieces were exactly what I wanted. A 6 drawer dresser and a small dresser with a bookshelf style hutch. The pieces were in excellent structural condition. But definetly needed some cosmetic TLC. The original ivory cream color had really discolored and aged.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Loft - Before & After

Well once Broxton came along we knew that we wanted to convert our open loft space on the second floor into a bedroom. I didn't have many pictures where you could see the loft. But see the picture above. This was when we first bought the house.

 

 We weren't really using the space much. Joe had an office area set up. But he didn't really spend much time up there. 

 

Once we were ready for construction we go the area completely emptied out. 

 We hired a contractor. The first phase of construction included removing the railing and framing in a wall and a closet.

 

You can see the closet in the back left. 

Then adding drywall to enclose it. 

 

Here is the new closet space. 

 

 Here is the new wall from inside the new bedroom (previous loft area).