Finally Organized the Office

I have fallen off the blogging band wagon.  Again.  Over the past few months, finding time and energy to blog has been a struggle.  One of my goals for 2015 is to be more consistent at blogging and sharing work.  Now I have a pretty office to work in so hopefully that will help me stay focused.  :)

A year ago I did a post called My Dirty Little Secret and showed all of you my "office."

Yeah.  It was bad.  I don't want to talk about it.

I made some progress getting it cleaned up and organized.

I lost steam on making it the office so it became the catch all room that I tried to hide from guests.  Over the past year it has been in various stages of messy and clean but has never been a functioning office....even though we still called it the office...hilarious.  Anyway, my husband and I have started another business venture, I'll fill you in on that another day, and we NEED a home office.

The room needed a desk/work station, a filing cabinet/system, a surface for a large printer and it needed to be pretty.  I wanted to get this done on a small budget and tried to use items we already had.  Remember, I had a junk room full of stuff that could be used.  :)

The blue dresser will stay in the room.  It has all my craft and sewing supplies and its a great place to put the large printer.

Filing cabinets are not that attractive so I wanted to incorporate them some way in the room and not have an ugly filing cabinet standing in the corner.  A filing cabinet desk came to mind immediately.  Something like this....

I couldn't find filing cabinets on Craigslist or on our neighborhood forum and was on a bit of a time crunch so I bought new.  This filing cabinet was only $25 at Office Depot.  I bought two to make my base for the desk.

The only problem is the filing cabinet is boring and not a great color.  I added to some detail to them and painted them!

Monday I'll show you the details on the filing cabinets' makeover and the desk.

Tuesday I'll show you the entire office.

Have a great weekend everyone and check back on Monday.  Also, be sure to follow me on Instagram to see special sneak peeks and what I am up to.  Facebook hides my posts from most of my followers so Instagram is the better choice.

Blue Nursery with Navy Dressers

As y'all know, I love navy.  Blue is my favorite color but right now I have a thing for navy.  So when a client said she wanted her nursery furniture painted a dark navy, I was excited.

The pieces were in the family and needed to be updated from the 80's vibe.  I also painted the twin bed that is in the nursery which belonged to the client's husband when he was a kid.

Here are the before pictures.

The hardware needed to go so both dressers got new knobs to replace the pulls and then were painted a gorgeous navy with slight distressing.

Here they are in the nursery.  I love the stripes and the mix of blues.

This weekend I delivered a custom farmhouse table that I built and this week I am finishing up several other projects for that client.  I can't wait to show you the pieces.  They are all beautiful and are going to look great in their new home.  

Another client dropped off their nursery furniture this weekend.  This furniture is going to be painted and finished in a color I have never done before so I am excited about that.  Its going to be a beautiful nursery.  

Check back to see pictures of all of those projects or follow me on Instagram.  I have been working hard on posting pictures regularly of projects.  

I hope everyone is having a great week!

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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.  :)