Designing on a Dime

It's true - 

If I worked every day like I do when I am getting ready for a trip

or for company coming

I could get a ton of stuff done.

So getting ready for both of those events 

really got me in gear on a project.

There was a room upstairs that was full of building supplies

so I moved them out, patched the cracked plaster,

painted the walls, oiled the wood floors,

and wished for those DIY folks to show up and help me.

Then I rounded up some old furniture and worked it over.

Old Gert's iron bed

(as in "did old Gert leave any of her homemade chokecherry wine

 in the rhut cellar?")

got a new coat of metallic gold spray paint.

The dresser I bought for $15 was too low to use as a dresser,

so I re-purposed it into night tables.

The art deco brass drawer pulls were the best thing about the dresser.

Off-white spray paint covered a lot of ugly on this chest of drawers.

After about 2 weeks, 

 it all came together 

with the help of a few rummage sale and thrift store finds

 I'd been collecting for this project.

It was truly  

a Design on a Dime room

 fit for a Princess!