White Bedroom Set & Some Updates

Hello y'all.  I hope everyone is having a great week!

This is my third attempt to write an update and post for this week.    I have been a little stressed and all over the place the past few weeks.  I think I am finally getting focused again.

Things have been quiet on the blog but they have not been in my life.  I told y'all about taking a day off to bring my parents to the airport and spend the rest of the day with my best friend and her family.   After that, the week got a little crazy and ugly.

On Thursday of that week, two of my nieces were burned in a cooking accident and were brought to Shriner's in Galveston for treatment.  We spent a lot of time at the hospital over the next week.  My BIL and SIL have 6 kids so we helped take care of the other 4 children along with BLittle's parents.   Our 7 year old nephew stayed the weekend with us and he had a blast.  He loved fishing, taking boat rides, and sleeping in his own bed.  :)  Thankfully, the girls were released late last week and only come back for bandage changes and check ups once a week.



Here are a few pictures of our nephew catching bait fish (and his two best helpers) and of us cruising the canals under the huge moon.

With us taking care of the nephew and spending so much time at the hospital, I got so behind on work and the anxiety was horrible.  My brain tells me its fine, everyone will understand but I get overwhelmed when I get off schedule.  Its stupid but I have always been that way.  I worked extremely hard this week to get caught up and did make my deadline for a huge bedroom set I painted.  The only thing I was late on was a client pick up but it was only by a few days and the client was understanding.

In the hustle and bustle of everything, of course I didn't take great pictures of the bedroom set.  Their story is, the client just built a new house and all the built-ins were painted white.  The bedroom set was off white.  Once they got the furniture in the bedroom, it looked dirty and dingy next to the white built-ins. Everything went from off white to bright white.  Here are the pictures I have of the pieces.

Before there were drip marks and brush strokes all over the headboard.  Everything else was in good condition.  Just needed a brighter white.

Now everything is smooth and a pretty white.

The green & brass end tables are in their new home and look beautiful!

The air conditioner has been installed in the shop and it is fabulous.  Last week was my first week with AC and I was so much more productive than I have been.  The heat and humidity have been intense and I can tell a difference in my energy with the AC.  I don't get as tired and worn down as fast now.  Its great!

On a more exciting note, the kitchen was featured again.  Y'all.  It is still very out of body experience with the kitchen features.  I say out loud that I have been in a magazine and acknowledge these features but it is so crazy to wrap my brain around.  The goal was to have a beautiful, functional kitchen that was in a certain budget.  We felt like that was accomplished long before the features.  The space is for us and we love it.  All this other is the cherry on top and I still can't believe it when I see my house on Pinterest, Hometalk or these other social sites.  

So when my friend posted on my personal Facebook page that she saw my kitchen on House Beautiful, my jaw hit the floor.  AAAAHHHH!  Elle Decor and House Beautiful featured my kitchen in the same article.  My kitchen was on both of their home pages!!!!!!  Again,  AHHHHHH!  Seriously, y'all.  I know I say it often but, how is this my life?  Crazy.  

I screen clipped so I can forever remember that day.

I feel like saying my kitchen proves bright white is the best color for kitchen is a pretty bold statement but its Elle Decor and House Beautiful, they can say what they want.  I am beyond flattered.  Now I need to finalize our bathroom ideas and plans.  Hopefully they will be just as beautiful as the kitchen.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  BLittle and I are taking a few days off to relax and recuperate from the past few weeks.  I'll tell y'all all about what we are doing this weekend next week.  :)

Master Bedroom Reveal

Hi all!  As promised, I am showing you our master bedroom today!

For the most part, our master is made up of items we already had.  I have only purchased a few new items for the room which I love because reusing is saving!  Here is what it looked like when we purchased the home.

Here's a photo after all the furniture had been moved out and the new flooring had been installed.

This is what you see when you walk in the door.  And yes, the dog is usually there too.  :)

While she was laying in MY bed, sweet Jaxson was being a good boy and laying in HIS bed.

Isn't he just the cutest?!  You can read about his skiff bed here.

Here is a cost savings tip for my dog owner friends out there.  Jaxson does like to have his own space.  Things are more expensive when you have a large dog and when you have two, well, its just ridiculous.  Dog beds are outrageously expensive and they don't last that long.  Jaxson needed a bed for our bedroom but I wanted to be able to hide it.  I purchased a baby bed mattress...yes, you read that right...a baby bed mattress from Wal-Mart for $30 and a set of fitted sheets for $10.  The mattress slides under our bed so it is easy to hide if people come over or if I want it out of sight.  The sheet and blankets are easy to change and more importantly, easy to wash regularly.  Most dog beds for an 80 lb dog are at least $70, usually more, and they don't hold up very long.  The mattress and sheets are about 4 years old!

Ok. Enough about dog stuff.  Let's talk about my headboard.

Blittle moved to New Orleans 6 months before me and there were several weekends we were apart so I started refinishing furniture and doing DIY projects for our new home to keep me busy.  I didn't know it at the time but that was really the beginning of Fisherman's Wife Furniture :)  Our headboard was one of the projects I took on.  I wanted a big upholstered headboard with extra large nailhead trim.  After searching and searching for something online with no success I decided to build what I wanted.  I made a frame, filled it with foam, wrapped it with batting, sewed a cover and put in 2 inch nailhead trim.  LOVE it!  It is huge and its one of a kind.

The bedding was love at first sight.  I remember one of my friends on Pinterest had pinned it and I was in love.  Then I found out it was at Bed, Bath & Beyond and was actually affordable.  PERFECT.  I hunted down a 20% off coupon for each piece of the bedding and bought the set.  I loved it so much that 6 months later I bought extras of each piece so if something happens to the first ones, I have replacements.  :)

The wall color is Pale Smoke by Benjamin Moore.  It coordinates well with the bedding and gives a calming effect in the room.  I love bright, happy blues but in our bedroom, I wanted more subtle and  soft.

Here is another cost savings tip.  We purchased a Tempur-Pedic mattress 3 years ago and we have said it over and over again....one of the best investments ever!  Ours is from Mattress Firm, which has a program for returned mattresses.  Tempur-Pedic allows you to return a mattress within 90 days if you are not satisfied.  When those mattresses are returned they can't sell as new so they are sold at discount.  We decided we didn't care if our mattress had been used for 90 days or less, we were saving thousands of dollars by buying slightly used.

Our bed side table

On my side is an antique sewing machine like my paternal grandmother used.  The small drawers are great to store my chargers and to hold any jewelry I decide to take off after I am in bed.  I have a few of my favorite photos of the pups and my essentials; lotions, phone charger, and Kindle.  On Blittle's side there is an old tea cart that has been at my parent's house for years.  I also put one of our favorite wedding gifts, a hand drawn trout from a friend.  The lamps were purchased from Homegoods years ago and can be filled with whatever you like.  I chose sand and shells to give a coastal feel.

There are 3 windows in the room.  A large one that looks onto the back deck and to the water and 2 small ones on each side of the bed.  For the large window, I used the curtain I made for our room in New Orleans (See them in our NOLA home here).  Our ceilings there were extremely tall so I had to take about 18 inches off the length.  Easy fix.  Also, I installed our curtain rod higher than the previous one.  The curtains in the small windows are panels I found at Lowes for $12 each!  They were the correct width but wrong length so I hemmed them to fit the opening.  They are hanging on small tension rods that I purchased from Target for $10 each.

The wall opposite our bed has a dresser I refinished and has some accessories.  Remember the dresser turned into a dog feeding station and storage?  Read about it here.

And remember the long dresser I put in my office for storage?  Read about it here.

Well, there is also a cute end table in that set that is for sale. See it here.

And finally, the last pieces of that set are the mirrors.  They went with the long dresser in the office but I didn't need them in the office.  I decided to use them over the dresser in our bedroom.  I painted them White Dove to contrast with the dresser and wall color.

Before

After

The "Little" mat frame we got when we were married.  It has our engagement photos in it and the picture on the right was taken during our Destin vacation in 2010.  Unpacking photos made me realize it has been too long since we have had pictures taken so I made an appointment with a local photographer to take pictures of us with the dogs on the beach in the Spring.  I can't wait!  We need new pictures bad!

The dresser was my great aunt's and I recently refinished it for Blittle's folded clothes.  You can read about it here.

The canvas I made a few years ago.  It has the locations we have traveled to in the Caribbean and Florida.  I need to update this one or make a new one.  We have been to other islands and ended up not going to the Keys.  They are still on our list for the next year or two but technically we have not been there.  :)

Overall, the room has come together nicely and I am really happy with it.  Of course there are a few things a want to adjust and add but they will have to wait for now.

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