I have recently made beautiful thick padded bed
heads and painted my own chevron pattern lampshades for the girls' shared room. A new house with a new bedroom called for a different look! It’s
starting to come together now. It just needs a bit more white linen and cushions… you can
never have too much of these.
I had the girls' existing timber bedheads to cover and had already chosen the coverlets but finding the perfect fabric to compliment the coverlets was challenging. I was thinking yellow and white stripe
but couldn't find anything with the right shade of yellow or the right width
stripe... I am fussy!
I decided I would have to buy the fabric online as the
range and quality at spotlight just wasn't doing it for me. However on the day
I decided I was going to this project, (when I get in the mood to do a big job
like this I have to run with it ON THAT DAY) I still hadn't ordered any fabric,
so another trip to spotlight was made in the hope that they would have something
new... they didn't have anything new but hiding in the mess of rolls was this
pale yellow stripe that would work perfectly, I couldn't believe it! And there
was only enough left on the roll to do my job so it was 'meant to be'. I used spray adhesive glue to stick the foam to the face of the timer, wrapped the fabric around, the fiddly part was the corners but managed to get that right and then stapled the fabric down at the back with my electric staple gun, (couldn't live without this thing I LOVE it!) They were heavy to work with and had a hand from hubby but worked out perfectly.
Later I was in target and spotted 2
yellow lampshades, the exact colour of the fabric. I already had the bases so grabbed two of
the shades and thought I would paint on my own chevron pattern. I measured up the pattern and used painters masking tape in blue and white (whatever I had laying around) I noticed on the docket the other day I was only charged for one lamp shade $10...
bargain! Whoops... I secretly love that!
Other things in the girls’ room I have decorated with
are tissue paper pom poms from Lark, coverlets from Bed Bath ‘n’ Table,
curtains from Ikea. Their beds face end to end (they have a very long room) and
each side is the same! To finish off I am thinking new feature cushions, these were slapped together for the photo with lots of white linen showing under the coverlet.
2 cute yellow shades |
I measured and taped them up, this was time consuming! |
Painted on white acrylic paint from the craft store |
once dry peel it back, this was the fun part! |
voila`! I am on the lookout for some skinny white bedsides but at the moment this cute stool I painted 12 years ago for their nursery does the job! |
old bedhead |
stick on the foam |
wrap around fabric and staple |
I am joining in on Emily A. Clark's (one of my favourite bloggers) link up party
'Working with what you have'...
Looks like a very happy room! Thanks for linking up :)
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