I'm getting a little crafty. And I like it. Never have I considered myself the crafty type, but I have found that with a little inspiration from the internet and a lot more free time, cute projects have resulted.
Over the past month I have been attempting to make our new apartment feel a little more "like home." The first step was to give the windows in the master bedroom a little bit of love. After searching Pinterest for ideas, I came across this pattern and I think I like the results:
I love that they go from floor to ceiling, thus giving our room a bigger feel. I also love sleeping in a completely dark room. I am pretty picky about this and sleeping with a face mask is just not my favorite method of drifting off into dreamland.
After I got our drapes done, I decided the wall space above our headboard really needed some love. Trying to stay within the budget of birthday month from my in-laws, I had to stay simple. When Marshall and I went window shopping one Saturday, I noticed the canvas mat boards were on sale so I snatched a few up. Then, after a few weeks of thinking about what I wanted to do with them, I decided to take a line from each of our dating/wedding/anniversary songs over the past four years and display one on each board.
I think it looks pretty good. All I think it needs now is a big picture of us on the side. But all in good time.
Over the past month I have been attempting to make our new apartment feel a little more "like home." The first step was to give the windows in the master bedroom a little bit of love. After searching Pinterest for ideas, I came across this pattern and I think I like the results:
I love that they go from floor to ceiling, thus giving our room a bigger feel. I also love sleeping in a completely dark room. I am pretty picky about this and sleeping with a face mask is just not my favorite method of drifting off into dreamland.
After I got our drapes done, I decided the wall space above our headboard really needed some love. Trying to stay within the budget of birthday month from my in-laws, I had to stay simple. When Marshall and I went window shopping one Saturday, I noticed the canvas mat boards were on sale so I snatched a few up. Then, after a few weeks of thinking about what I wanted to do with them, I decided to take a line from each of our dating/wedding/anniversary songs over the past four years and display one on each board.
The inspiration came from this website for my boards. At first I was going to buy little wooden letters and then glue them on, but given my small (but generous gift) budget, I knew I couldn't go that $$ route. So I printed off the words for the songs and then traced them with puff paint onto wax paper. After drying for 24 hours, I carefully pulled them off, glued them onto the boards, and then spray painted them...and walla...a cute/cheesy/fun wall display of our favorite song lyrics was born.
I think it looks pretty good. All I think it needs now is a big picture of us on the side. But all in good time.
What do you think?
Love it! Puff paint....GENIUS! And I love your headboard too!
ReplyDeleteThank you!! We like our headboard too. The cool thing is that you can switch out the fabric. When we were in Alaska it was a bronze fabric. Pretty nice way to keep things fresh.
Deleteso cute :)
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