College Blues..

Yard sale-ing - one of my favorite sports!  Money in pocket on a Saturday morning and out the door no later than 8:00am - modern day treasure hunting!  Last August I bought this dresser for Bobby's room.  He had been using a completely inadequate dresser that was my husbands before we got married.

This is how I had to bring the dresser home, back door wide open, praying the whole way that it wouldn't slide out!  It cost $25 and is just a decent, full sized,  Broyhill dresser.  It would do nicely, except for the color.

This is the dresser Bobby used for years - "labeled" to help him keep his clothes neat, but mostly his clothes were in piles in his closet...You may also notice the lovely curtains made from sheets -in my defense, we had just moved in and had no idea if we could actually afford our new home and so weren't spending ANY money!

Since Bobby is my Florida baby, I had tried to make his room look tropical.  I decided to "comb" a glaze over the lower half of his walls so it would look like a hut.  Here's the thing about doing paint treatments on your walls;  it changes the surface texture of your wall so if you ever want to paint over it, you will see the lines and bumps and whatever else you did in relief against the new paint.  I never loved the treatment, but we had just moved in and there were bigger fish to fry at the time.

Fast forward to last fall when Bobby left for college, I wanted to surprise him with a new room when he came home and so I spent DAYS sanding that dag-gone "hut" off of his walls.  My hands tingled for about a week after from holding the palm sander!

But I digress, back to the dresser..

I decided to paint it a dark navy blue to match his comforter and, because I already had some nice bronze curtains, I opted to accent the drawer pulls and feet in the same bronze color.

No, that wasn't a typo, I did say I wanted to accent the feet and knobs in bronze, but I love the way red looks under gold or bronze paint - you really can't see it much but it gives it a rich look.

After...

I used Rub N Buff (in the tube on the left side of this photo).  Great product and the name tells you exactly how to use it!

When we brought Bobby up to Clarkson University, I looked through the school store for a poster of the school itself - surprisingly, there was nothing.  So, as we walked around campus, I took photos of the school and of the sculptures they have on the grounds so I could frame them as a focal point over his bed.

I am pretty proud of the way they turned out.  I even added "Clarkson University" to the larger photo before I had it printed out!  Not being much of a techie, this was a huge accomplishment for me!

I painted an accent wall behind his bed in the navy blue as well and the rest of the room is in a nice soft tan.

You can just see a little of the bronze curtains in this shot and I still need to get some nice shams to plump up the bed.

Bobby was so happy with his new room when he came home over Christmas!  Of course, Joey has now asked that I not wait until he leaves home to redo his room!  I guess that is my next big project!

Have a wonderful week everyone!