I'll trade ya!

Since the boy is getting bigger, he needed (read: WANTED) a loft bed.  Luckily I had a friend seeking to get rid of her tweenage daughter's, all for the low low price of bartered services and trade!  Mainly, Parker's old bed frame and a headboard.  The headboard I got from a coworker's daughter for $25, very "princessy" and plain white, but I knew I could whip it into shape and make it chic for an older girl.

Head BORED.

Painting en progress - colors picked out by recipient. :)

Yes, I did fill in all those little white spots, I just didn't get a picture of it.

She was happy with the finished product, and Parker was pleased with his loft bed.  Huzzah for paint to the rescue again!  (Srsly, 4 realz, I would paint all the things if they'd let me)

Accidentally on Purpose

Sometimes projects are so simple, I question whether I should even post them.  This was one of my favorites, however, and I'm super pleased with the results, so here you go.

This floor screen frame was an unintentional acquisition from my ex-pack rat boyfriend.  I shudder a bit every time I remember the brief time we spent together, in which my office resembled an episode of Hoarders (because I wouldn't let him take over the rest of the house with his "salvaged" junk).

Anywho, this Oriental frame lacked fabric, was too short and too wide, and had been cheaply painted with dim gold flecks and fans on the bottom slats.  I guess those pokey tetanus-riddled hooks on top were once intended as a coat rack substitute:

But since I don't own a Chinese restaurant...

I saw its potential, however, and decided to make something I actually needed - a headboard.

First I ripped off the hooks and the bottom veneered panels. By disassembling the frame, reassembling it into a single pane and giving it a matte coat of dark brown paint (spray paint to the rescue, about $6), this Wang Chung throwaway became a chic modern headboard.  I mounted it to the wall directly behind our king-size bed, where it fit perfectly.

See?  It's pretty much my favorite.  Sweeney likes it too.

Excuse the messy bedroom - I think we had just moved in and I had nothing else set up.  Ugh, that brown carpet - gotta love the building boom of the 1980s.