Same Client, New Project-Continued!

Greetings Blogosphere!

This is a continuation of my last post since the two bedrooms required pretty much all of the furniture and accessories to be "DIY". I thought I'd share some of the pictures I was able to take of my in-process work and how I created said pieces.

 

 Sadly, I was unable to get a before shot of my favorite makeover pieces for this project (seen above). Just imagine these black and white pieces as previously covered in a faded and peeling yellow paint - it might actually be a good thing there is no before picture for these haha, believe me, they were not pretty.

These pieces were sanded down and given a couple coats of paint - black on the top of the piece and white on the sides and drawers. I removed all of the hardware and used a black high gloss spray paint on them.  

   

These were artificial topiaries that I put together using topiary tree forms that I found in the floral section of Hobby Lobby, and a bunch of different colored artificial flowers that were 80% off in the floral department of Jo-Ann Fabrics. Super easy to make your own floral arrangements, except that by fingers were swollen sausages by the end of the day from push all those stems into the foam, haha! 

Another originally ugly yellow/green piece of furniture. I sanded down the piece and repainted it, which took a while because i used a small paintbrush for the coral colored details. This picture does not do the headboard justice!

These were two Queen Anne dining room chairs that were practically begging to be reupholstered and painted. Its not very hard, but it takes time and a LOT of patience - the painting takes the most time. All you need is thick upholstery fabric, a screwdriver to remove the seat/cushion from the chair base, and a staple gun (the kind from the hardware store-not Office Depot, lol).

 

 

  

These were two painted pieces for Synene's Bedroom- a desk and a dresser. A little paint and a lot of patience can go a very long way. 

Happy DIY-ing!

XOXO ~ Mimi!

Same Client, New Project!

Greetings Blogosphere!

 I know I've been MIA for a while, but its been a crazy few months. I was working on another project this summer and was devoting every spare minute to it. The summer was followed by a new client and my first semester of my senior year in college (woohoo!) so as you can imagine, my plate was more than full. I really enjoyed this 2-bedroom project because it was actually a surprise design, I felt like a host of an HGTV show, haha! Since I had already designed a nursery for my client, she wanted me to do the same for her two other daughters as a birthday surprise. This of course took months of preparation and tons of garage space while I refinished all the furniture pieces for both bedrooms, details of which will be for a later post. Once the girls went to spend the night at their cousin's house, old furniture was pulled out and new furniture was brought in. Needless to say, the girls reactions when they saw their new rooms were PRICELESS! This was one time when crying was a good thing; in between the girl's sobs were, "I LOVE it!". I hope you all love it too!

Enjoy!

XOXO ~ Mimi!

Noor's Bedroom

Noor's Bedroom

Noor's Bedroom

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Synene's Bedroom

Synene's Bedroom

Synene's Bedroom

Synene's Bedroom

Synene's Bedroom

Client #2

Hey There Readers!

Today's post is pretty exciting, because it's about a little girl's nursery I designed for an amazing friend of mine! She is so very dear to my heart because without her, I swear I probably would have lost my head during all my wedding planning chaos last year, but that's a whole other story that I'll save for another day, haha! So I finished up this nursery mid-December, when she was ready to pop, and the room theme was something similar to French Country Chic meets Alice in Wonderland!

This whole nursery project was on a tight budget, and rightfully so, because in case you didn't know, babies are expensive little things! The chair, lamp/table, and the long dresser that also acted as the changing table, were all from a local consignment store, where I always seem to find little treasures at the perfect price. With he help of my friend's dad, we completely transformed those furniture pieces with just a little sand paper and paint! I'll be blogging another day about the furniture refinishing and other projects for this room, not today though, sorry!

What makes this post even MORE exciting is that after my friend, Yolanda, had her baby, she had professional pictures taken of not just the baby, but the room too!

Professional room photos, you say!?

Score!!

So a HUGE shout-out to Yolanda for being so very thoughtful, and for JP Photography, because the pictures were amazing!!

Enjoy!

(side note: God bless that child and her mama, they are too stinkin' cute!)

XOXO ~ Mimi!

Now you see what I mean by Alice in Wonderland (chair) :.P

I am obsessed with the round crib!

The wall of well - wishes

Client #1

Greetings Blogosphere!

So this was my very first freelance design job that I finished this past summer, for my husband's niece. She was making the transition into her teenage years so i figured I would give her a "Big Girl" room for her birthday! We said goodbye to the pink, purple and green polka dots, the boas, and the stickers on the dresser. It was time she had a space for her Harry Potter books, her beautiful bangle bracelet collection (try saying that fast, haha) and a reading nook for her love of books. This wasn't the biggest project ever, but the small space was a perfect scale for my first job.

Updates coming soon with more in-depth photographs :)

Detailed image of the bracelet display I made

Because of her family's Indian ethnicity, my husband's niece had loads of gorgeous bangles that were just begging to be displayed! I found these little treasures sitting in shoe boxes under her bed! She could never find any way to organize them (forget even trying to display them) without creating clutter from the shear amount that she had.

Challenge accepted.

 I made this bangle display out of 3 separate tiny "cafe" curtain rods I purchased from Home Depot. You can probably get them at any hardware store and they were only a couple bucks, which was awesome! Since they didn't have the color I needed, I simply spray painted the rods and the rod hangers with a antique bronze finish to match the hardware in the room. This DIY jewelry display could easily be retrofitted for use with necklaces and other jewelry as well if you attach "S hooks" to the rods. :)

Below are more images of the room, and as stated before, I'll be updating this post with more images soon!

Happy Blogging!

XOXO ~ Mimi!

 

 

Above her bed is a DIY bracelet display that is both functional and beautiful! 

Spray painted the existing dresser hardware with the same antique bronze paint finish to make it pop!

Harry potter bookshelf with wand bookend per request of the client :.)



About Me!

Greetings Blogosphere!

Since this is my first post on here, instead of diving right into my projects, I'll start off by telling you a bit about myself and, frankly, this blog! I'm a (nearly) 21 year old college student born and raised in Ohio, and my passion is anything design!

Even though I'm an Interior Design major, and most of what I focus on is aesthetics, for the love of everything that is good and holy, please don't call me a decorator, haha.

It's way more complicated than that. Probably the best way to easily (and quickly) explain it to you is that I do similar work that architects do (with codes and regulations too), I just do interiors as well and have an eye for anything artsy! My original plan was to double-major in Architecture as well as Interior Design, but to my dismay, I was informed that doing so would tack on an addition 5 years to my 4 year degree... yea not happening, my scholarships only last for 4 years and the majors overlap anyways.

Any-whoo (my rant is over, haha)

Having a mother who's always loved using power tools has made me quite the construction-savvy gal, which has definitely come in handy throughout my design adventures! That is why this blog is dedicated not only to my design projects I've completed in school and my real-life freelance design jobs that I do, but also the DIY stuff i do for my projects. Considering that my freelance jobs are entirely my own start-to-finish, and I do plenty of DIY projects, I'll be blogging about those separate projects that I hope become Pinterest-worthy!

That being said, I hope you all have a very happy Monday, and stay tuned!

XOXO ~ Mimi!