MET MONDAY--THE BED

Welcome to my 2Nd Metamorphosis Monday sponsored by Susan at http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ please check out all the other wonderful

projects. Here's the dilemma-- When my 18 year old daughter decided to take all of her bedroom furniture to her new apartment last summer, her mom, being me, was left without a bed for her room. Well her mom,that being me, was quite depleted funds- wise what with two graduations, a vacation from the graduations and helping 2- 18 year old's get settled in their new digs. My sweet Mother-in-law had made my daughter a quilt (see pic below) for graduation and sweet daughter decided to keep it at home so not to get ruined. (click on any pic to enlarge) I had an extra twin mattress and box spring and so I took to looking for a headboard. I needed to find something cheap but not so cheap looking. One afternoon, I stumbled upon an antique headboard and foot board during a little garage sale hunting. The good news- the owners only wanted $15 for the pair. The bad news, a little chunk was missing from the headboard. My hubby said, "no problem, he could fix it" and I only wanted to use the headboard anyway. See pic below of foot board with missing top scrolly thing. My hubby removed a piece from here and carefully replaced on the headboard. Using the color scheme from the quilt, I primed, and painted the head board a colonial yellow.

Aw, finished new headboard for my daughter's room. I think the color goes nice with the quilt.

Another view here, I don't think you can tell where he replaced the scrolly thing. So, with the cost of $15, and a quart of paint I had a colorful new headboard for my daughter's room.

With the leftover paint I decided to do the old shelves in her room as well.

I was going to throw out this shelf but it looks cute with the new coat of yellow paint.

Thanks everyone for stopping by my 2Nd Met Monday and a special thanks to our hostess Susan. Cindy