It's Showtime!!!!

So after almost a month of working on our new Pottery barn inspired bed, we are finally ready to share our project. Thanks to the awesome plan designs by Ana over on www.knockoffwood.blogspot.com and some slight changes made by my dear husband, I present to you our new awesome bed!

Here it is all assembled and framed and ready to go. I absolutely love the stain. It is called pecan.
We had to recruit our children to come in and help us assemble the frame/side rails so that we could attach everything to the headboard and footboard. So it was indeed a family project. : )

The finished product. I love it! I am in awe that my awesome husband built this bed. It is so much better than anything store bought. It is solid. It is sturdy. It is beautiful and it is oh so comfy!!!!!!!

The beginnings of our Pottery Barn inspired King Size Bed

Stained in Pecan Oak......Beautiful!!!!

Absolutely love the character that the knots give. This one looks like owl eyes!

Another Piece of the Entertainment Center Puzzle........

is put in place.......still needs pine trim, primer, and paint.........

Finally Stained our Hyde Side Table.....

So it took a few weeks to decide on what color stain we wanted to use, and then today I changed stain colors mid-project. You see, I first decided to go with a Natural stain, which made the wood look wet but not really stained.

We discussed it, and then decided to go with the darker Red Oak stain instead.

I really like the Red Oak and it flows with the color of our kitchen cabinets and flooring that can be seen from the living room. One day, there will be a partner for this table......but for now, I'm quite pleased with how this project has turned out. Now to put it in the living room and put my lamp and accessories on it :-)

Phase Two of the changes in the living room.........

So with all this new furniture that Michael's has been busy building for the living room, the room itself needs a facelift. New paint, new floor, new furniture....well new couches eventually!
I've been reading various blogs and looking at how people have done the Board and Batten on their walls. I love the look and feel of board and batten. Clean crisp lines. Here is my inspiration picture.

I want to do this on the large wall in our living room that goes from our foyer to the back door. The ceiling is vaulted to this wall and I think it would help break up the huge wall space. So this is the next project I want to tackle in our living room renovations.

Project #3.....The beginning of our Entertainment Center

So by now you know that we like a whole lot of Pottery Barn style furniture. :-) What's not to love? The stuff is just beautiful, but with a family of 6 its just not in our budget to go out and spend alot of money on fancy furniture. We have always been DIY type people when it comes to doing stuff around the house. So why not try to build our own entertainment center? We wanted a built it originally, but then we changed gears to building our own version of the PB style centers. Here was our inspiration.

We started by using Ana's plans, and then had to change the dimensions to fit it to our needs.

We purchased two sheets of MDF and had the friendly man at Home Depot cut it for us. Then it was a rush to get home and start building.

Here is the center of the Cameron System, which will be the TV Media Base. We made it 22 1/2 inches high so that our TV would not be sitting so low. Eventually we'll end up mounting the TV above this stand. We wanted the center shelves to house our Wii and Xbox systems.

Here is the stand in its current state. Freshly painted black and waiting on the trim work to be installed.

Then we'll move it to the living room and start rearranging the furniture. :-) I envision large baskets of some sort in the open cubbies on the left and right of the stand.

Project #2 - Hyde Side Table

We all know that a coffee table has to have a coordinating side table, RIGHT????

Here is the Pottery Barn Hyde Side Table

and here is how our's turned out. Again, it still isn't stained because it has to match whatever stain we decide on for the coffee table! 

This go around Michael chose to use 1x3 pine boards instead of the 2x4's and 4x4's since we couldn't find untreated lumber. The legs were made using 3 1x3's glued together instead of the 4x4 posts.