Nighty Night

Guess what?! We finally built our nightstands! And they are proportionate in size (unlike our old ones) to our other massive bedroom furniture! And they're purdy! And they hold a lot of stuff without looking crazy cluttered! Call me crazy for being excited about those things. It reminds me of the time I asked for a vacuum cleaner for my birthday and when I received a Dyson I was so excited that you would’ve thought I won the lottery. That’s the day I officially knew I was an adult – when vacuum cleaners got me giddy and they made the top of my birthday list.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

See?! Excited.

So yeah, we (yep, I coerced the hubby to help) made ourselves a set of nightstands. We made it out of the base of a massive dining table that we owned when we lived in Pcola. I didn’t want to take the table with us when we moved to Destin because 1. It was no longer my style (I owned it for at least seven years) and 2. I had my eye on a new one. But when we moved I realized I couldn’t buy the new one I had my eye on because our new place was too small, therefore that purchase will have to wait until we move yet again. BUT! When giving our old table the boot we kept the “legs” of the table. Instead of the typical four legs, the table had two big pedstals as legs, so we we just unscrewed the table top and kept the two pedestals because I figured we could use them as bases to nightstands. And that’s just what we did. I forgot to take a photo of the bases before we started but you can catch a glimpse in them in this 'before' photo I took when I was refinishing our dining table, it's the dark wood base behind the table on the far right of the photo, it's somewhat hard to see:

After standing in the lumber aisle of Lowe’s for 45 minutes (slight exagerration) the hubby picked out the plywood we would use as our table tops. When we got home he simply used his jigsaw to cut two 36-inch circles in the wood. You should’ve seen us trying to draw a circle on the wood as a guide for him to cut around – it was humourous, we held a string to the center and failed, had the other hold a string to the center and failed, and then we finally got smart and nailed the string to the center and BAM – it worked like magic.

Then we sanded, painted, and applied a few coats of poly. I called myself saving time by using a primer-paint-in-one, but I will never, ever, ever do that again because it took more coats then I dare count (perhaps the brand I used was just wrong but I loooooathed it). I have always used a separate primer first and then painted and the technique works great so I should’ve stuck with my usual method. Lesson learned.

Then, the hubby simply used screws to attach the table tops to the pedestals and viola! We were in business. Note: Make sure you countersink the screws so that you don't have big lumps where the screws are.

Not too shabby, eh? And yes, my curtains are too short but since we don't plan to live here for more than a year I refuse to buy new ones and have just been working with things I had from the old house.

It's difficult to get a good photo of that wall because the opposing wall is really close (the room is tiny) so I can't zoom out enough to capture the the bed and nightstands, but hopefully this helps you get an idea of what we've got goin' on (oh, and forgive the random heart balloons, this photo was take on Valentine's day, yes I'm a month late posting about this). 


Our room looks so much better just with that simple change. But if you’re like me you’re thinking that the roundness of the nightstands and the curviness of our current headboard adds up to a whole lotta curves, which is nice but not typically my style. But fear not, we’ve got our eye on this killer headboard from West Elm:

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So once we take the plunge and purchase it the angles of the new headboard will breakup all the curves we’ve currently got going on with the nightstands. But that’s no time soon – I still have Ari’s room to finish before moving on to anything else major. And truth be told, the only reason we built our nightstands right now is because I needed my old nightstand (which I failed to take a 'before' picture of, bad mommy) to refinish for Ari’s room. And I couldn't imagine giving up my nightstand without getting one to replace it! I'm pretty sure I'd fail to function without a nightstand - it holds my magazines, books, glasses, jewelry, lamp and phone charger on it, sheesh, I sound like I belong on Hoarders. Oh, and it holds my basal body thermometer because I've fine tuned the art of charting...damn me and my baby fever. 

So there you have it mother (and everyone else of course), the nightstands I was telling you about and have taken forever to show you. I feel like I'm on a building/refinishing/sanding/painting spree. It’s just that I’m on a roll and want to keep moving while I’ve got the momentum.

Hugs,

Lor