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As I've mentioned before, I love to rearrange and make an old space new again. At the beginning of the summer, I had the bright idea that I'd do that with our school room. This room is actually our sun porch and serves many purposes. One side is for Emma (age 2 1/2). All of her toys, books and bed are here because it's just off of our bedroom.
First of all, I decided to strip the wood floors. They're pine and had several layers of white paint on them. I alloted myself 1 week for floors. I must have been dreaming!! 2 months later and I was finally finished. (Not all of this time was spent working. 2 of the girls had a fever for a couple of days then a stomach virus plowed through the whole family.) I went through several cans of stripper and lots and lots of sand paper. I ended up doing a light "pickling" to cover some of the blemishes in the wood. You do this by diluting your white paint with water. I did this in a small plastic bucket. You want it pretty thin. Then, take a cotton cloth, dip a corner in the paint and rub on the floor. Immediately, take another clean, damp cloth and wipe the excess paint away. Then I completed it with several coats of poly. I'm pleased with how it turned out, but I would NEVER do this again. LOL!
Next, I moved to the walls. I wasn't going to paint, but then decided to go ahead and tackle it. We chose a pretty green. I even let the girls help a bit. I also freshened up the trim with some new shiny white paint. WE have 10 windows and french doors in the room. The green paint makes you feel like the whole room is part of the outdoors.
I also decided to make table cloths for the school tables. I used white denium trimmed with pale pink pom poms. I covered the whole thing with thick plastic, so I don't end up washing them everyday. I was going to make cushions for the chairs, but then came across these at Target (my favorite store). I made the chair back covers from coordinating cloth napkins. The rug in the center of the room is part of this whole "Simply Shabby Chic" collection. Usually I never find anything to match.
We finished off the room with new organizers for the table tops and little rolling carts with drawers to sit beside the tables. After washing all of the windows, dusting all of the books and putting them back on the shelves, we're finally finished. We're all extremely pleased with the finished project. It made the new school year even nicer to start off with a clean, fresh, "new" room. |
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