Kayla's Nursery: Painted Changing Table

I was excited to jump into decorating Kayla's nursery. Our pocket books however were not. But that only calls for more creativity!

It was only after she was born that I finally pinned down a theme and colors. Her room was already painted a tannish brown on the lower half with a white chair rail. I would love to paint over all the walls and rip out the chair rail. But Thomas is pretty sure he glued those suckers on there and no telling what damage we'll do trying to take them off. Since we are the kind of folk that don't like extra work (oh you too?) we decided to stick with what we had.  Including the deer head? He now wears a bow, you know, so it'll fit in the girl nursery;Thomas' idea.

On to the furniture. Kayla has inherited Sean's crib which is dark wood and I thought about painting it yellow or white. But we were given a honey oak changing table that didn't fit in and begged to be painted! Given to us by a college boy at our church...odd, but we'll take it!

 I disassembled the changing table with Sean's help.

 oh and a little Veggie Tales entertainment

This little project took FOREVER. First I sanded the wood and decided a primer coat would be best to help the spray paint stick. Don't want paint chips lying around the nursery now do we? I used Kilz brand spray paint primer. I ended up sanding that primer coat so so so much. There was a lot of texture due to my poor spray painting skills. I guess I ran with the wrong crowd in HS, should have spent more time with punks to get my graffiti experience. I have no patience so working with spray paint and letting it dry was killer. It got to a point where I just wanted it done and was being sloppy. I'm thinking no one is going to notice the imperfections, only I will. Eventually got it finished!

When I took this pic I was in the middle of another little project.  I decided to cover diaper boxes for storage baskets instead of buying new ones. Those fancy baskets are so expensive and it was hard to find ones that fit just so. When choosing which material to cover them I had to implement my new open mind decor philosophy. I was so tempted to go with solid or dotted material in either red yellow or blue, but knew I needed to have a pattern. I eventually settled on that print, I think I like it.

Covering the boxes was super easy and I'd like to show you how I did it in another post. I'm sure there are other tutorials out there but it's always great to see a different way.

So in conclusion painting furniture is definitely a great option. Just don't work too hard.