authorHi, I'm Katy. For my project I am re-designing and re-decorating a room in my cousin's house. Archives
November 2020
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week nine11/15/2020 My cousin and I got to go shopping for the room this week. We went to Home Goods first however we didn’t find anything that we liked. We then went to Target and got some things. I bought a white throw blanket to go over the bed, a pillow that matches the bedding, and some navy curtains. After we shopped, we went to Hobby Lobby. While I was shopping there, I got a small vintage chest to go on the dresser, three small vases, small rocks to go in the vases, and a fake plant to go into one of the vases. Overall, I think this shopping trip was pretty successful.
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week eight11/8/2020 I got to finish my wood pallet this week. My cousin helped me a little with putting it together. We used a nail gun to do this and then sanded down the rough edges. I took this home and I spray-painted it with a white primer as a base coat. I let that dry and then did a second coat. Later in the week I painted the pallet with paint colors that I custom mixed to match the bedroom. When I finished that I took it back over to my cousin’s house and I sanded it to make the wood look more distressed. We had some troubles hanging it up but we eventually got it and I think it turned out great.
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week seven11/1/2020 This week my mom and I worked on getting my photos printed out. We had to cut most of the pictures because they wouldn’t fit in the frames. I had to decide what pictures I wanted in the frames that I had. I also had to decide how I wanted the pictures to be hung on the wall. I still want to get several smaller frames so I could use some of my cousin’s pictures. This week I also worked on finding some more inspiration for my wood pallet which I hope to finish next week.
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week six10/25/2020 I got to start on a piece for the room that is going to hang above the bed this week. Before we started this project, there were two pictures that were hanging above the bed. The pictures were fine and I didn't really have a problem with them except that they didn't really match the new theme of the room. I decided that I wanted to make a decor piece out of wood that looked something like a wood pallet that I could hang on the wall. I didn’t get to finish it but once I do, I am going to paint it and distress it.
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week five10/18/2020 I did not get to go over to my cousin’s house this week because I was too busy working on other projects for my AP class. I did work for a while trying to plan out everything I still need and want to get and where everything will be once the room is finished. Originally, I wanted to put floating shelves up on at least one of the walls. Looking at the layout of the room now, I don’t really want to do that and I want to put corner shelves going up a bare wall instead. I hope to make the shelves myself so I can paint it how I want and also so I can distress the wood. I would like to get started on this soon.
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week four10/11/2020 This week, I got to go over to my cousins house on Sunday to work on my project. A couple weeks ago I got some frames from Hobby Lobby for a photo collage that I wanted to do in the room. I decided that I wanted to use all black and white photos so my cousin and I went through a bunch of her old pictures that she had of her and her family when she was a child. I picked out some good photos and I also went through my camera roll on my phone and picked out some cool pictures and filtered them to be black and white to match the other ones. I definitely picked out more pictures than I needed to so I need to get some more frames for the picture collage.
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week three10/4/2020 I didn’t actually get to go over and work on the room this week because I was really busy but I did plan for next week. Last week I went to Hobby Lobby and got some things for the room including some vintage picture frames. My cousin said that she had a lot of pictures that I could use for the collage was we are going to be putting together. I am going to use a mix of black and white photos and regular color photos. We ordered a navy blue bed skirt and I want to get some navy blue curtains to match it. I also spent some time on amazon and other shopping websites looking for different pieces to add to the room.
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week two9/27/2020 While I was gone, my cousin moved the furniture around. On Saturday we went to stores to look for different pieces for the room. The first place that we went to was an antique shop in Winston. We didn’t end up getting anything there so we went to Hobby Lobby next. After roaming around for a while I found some great vintage frames that were on sale and my cousin found a circular pillow that matched our bedspread. I also found a fake greenery plant pick to put in a vase. When we got back to the house, we found a vase to put the plant pick in and we found some glass marbles to fill the vase. But the marbles wouldn’t fit so we took them outside and hit them with hammers until they were small enough to fit. That was all we did this week.
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week one9/20/2020 This week, I got to work on my project on Wednesday and on Sunday. On Wednesday my cousin and I went to choose the paint color for the room from Sherwin Williams. After much decision making we decided on a very light aqua color to match the bed spread we bought. The style we are going for is a mix between vintage and bohemian. Then on Sunday we cleaned out and cleaned up the clutter that was in the room and got it ready for painting. |