Well, maybe not quite finished. I'm a bit paranoid that the paint we used for the top of the dresser is going to get messed up/scratched up... not slowly over time but if I put something on it today, haha. The top paint is latex low voc paint and me and my mother in law didn't pay attention to the white paint she already happened to have at the house, so she brought it over not realizing it was oil based and I used it not thinking to double check and make sure what base it was (I had even Googled to see if I should paint at all. I was expecting to get help and Patrick did give me some but he had stuff come up and my other help kinda bailed on me. I'm sure I could've asked friends, I'm just not one to ask for help... which is stupid, but it's too late now). I'm not too worried about it, I was sure to use good ventilation and take lots of breaks and all that and I felt fine. If I weren't in the last month to get this stuff done I would've waited for help, but I am dying to nest and paranoid he's going to get here before we get this stuff finished so I felt like I couldn't wait.
Anyway--here's the finished result!
Let's start with the before:
And the after:
It's not off the tarp yet since I want to see if I can get a protective coating to put over the top.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but that's the same rainbow wallpaper that was on Patrick's bedroom walls up until this year when his mom removed it and re-painted the room since she's trying to sell her house.
When I first walked into his bedroom my first thought was "...There's something he needs to tell me, this is definitely not a date." Little did I realize I just found somebody who is unashamed of their love of rainbows, just like me (we even made our wedding rainbow themed). I used to have girls in cosmetology school think I was a lesbian because I wore a rainbow ribbon around my neck--I just had to wear all black so I was trying to add color, haha. I guess it was also because I didn't fawn over or talk about boys a lot 'til I mentioned my fiancee at the time, haha. Either way, I totally did to Patrick at first what others had done to me and made a silly assumption based on a stupid stereotype--rainbows are awesome and everybody should love them.
Anyway, back to the dresser. Patrick's mom found this extra wallpaper left over from when they had made the nursery back when Patrick's older brother was born. Eventually Patrick ended up in the room and he loved that wallpaper. So Patrick's mom knew I'd lined the drawers of the dresser I'd originally designated as Wiley's until we could find a dresser specifically for him (we've had the dresser I cleared out for him since I can remember and I am personally attached to it... plus it's also serving as a night stand in our bedroom, we kinda need to keep it here). and when she found the wallpaper she gave it to me to use for the dresser she got us for Wiley.
I had just enough to get it done and make a few mistakes. One drawer is lined with liner not quite big enough, the rest are a little too big because I could never get it right despite measuring and being super careful and I didn't have any extra to make one more that would at least be slightly large instead of slightly small... but it's alright, you won't really get to see the liners all that often, anyway. Yet again, if you're looking for a tutorial on dresser liners, this is the one I went with here. Patrick's mom didn't realize I was actually sticking the liners down with mod podge, she thought I was just going to lay them in there because that's what she does with liners... but I want liners that are going to stick down and last, as well as me be able to wipe them down. I like that about using the mod podge. Also, with the previous dresser I lined, it was leaving splinters in clothes so I wanted to make sure those were sealed down and the clothes were really protected by more than just paper.
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| My other time lining a dresser drawer. |
The color we used for the top of the dresser and the knobs is really interesting. We bought material to recover the glider Patrick's mom bought for us with and we wound up going with a baby fabric that wasn't the typical baby colors I was expecting (creams, blues or greens for a boy, although we looked at plenty). We ended up getting one where I thought the fabric was this interesting medium gray color that would go with pretty much whatever colors I wanted to throw in the nursery andwould also be different. Patrick's mom knew I wanted to match that fabric so she got the paint matched to it for me. The color is bronze something, when I first started painting the top I was freaking out because it was brown. Then on the second coat it was "Wait, it might be gray... I don't know. Maybe one more coat?" Finally I realized it is a brown, but it looks gray in certain lights (I think even in the photos it looks more gray than brown). I really love it, though.
Speaking of the glider, here's the finished glider after Patrick's mom reupholstered the pillows for us in the fabric we bought!
Part of me wants to paint it white, but I like the natural wood and think over-all it's probably best I don't. I just like making things hard for myself.
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| Close-up of the fabric we got. |
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| Dresser and glider side by side! |
We also need to get photo frames for the pictures I've drawn, hang up the bulletin board I pulled out of storage that we're going to hang up in his room and figure out how to raise the baby bed so that I can actually reach the mattress myself. We're also getting a bookshelf from Patrick's mom at some point, so I'll have more storage space and a place to set up his books. Yay.
So soon, hopefully, I'll have finished nursery pics... I'm hoping before he gets here. But if not, it's not like I don't already have a crib ready for him in our bedroom and that's the main thing he'll be sleeping in at first. I just need to get this house clean!
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