Good afternoon everyone!
You know when you have this idea in your head about how something is going to look and it turns out exactly like how you pictured? Yeah, that usually doesn't happen to me....
However, this time it did and I am so thrilled to share the results with you!
When we first set out to design Reveille's Nursery we knew we didn't want something that was overtly baby. There is nothing wrong with baby baby nurseries....just not our taste and would not jive with the rest of our house for sure. We decided a long time ago that, if we had a boy, it would be a football nursery. Not a monkey's playing football nursery, but a modern, bright and cool football nursery. My husband is a HUGE football fan. He was the quarterback for his High School, played in college and is obsessed with making training athletes his career. I love his passion for it, and I want my son to be all boy and share that love with his Daddy so, a football nursery it is!
This past week we started with the staple of any nursery, the crib! I'm a bargain baby hunter so I was beyond excited to find a crib / mattress on Craigslist for $150 (I talked her down to $100)..SCORE! We had talked all along about getting sort of a rustic / beach / driftwood looking crib but when I found out those ran for upwards of $700, we decided to get all DIY and re-stain one ourselves. I've never re-stained anything, I've never even really painted a piece of furniture, unless you count spray painting. He had some experience with staining, so I felt comfortable going this route. Did not know what I was getting myself into by any means!
Here's what we started with. Looks a lot less yellow than it actually is. In reality it was this butter yellow color that was not going to go into my son's room.
At first, we tried sanding it....nothing was coming off. Whatever stain / varnish / paint was on here was not going to go quietly. So we started stripping the paint off. This was the longest and probably most tedious part of the whole ordeal. Painting, waiting, waiting some more, stripping, painting it on again, waiting, stripping....over and over and over again. The process took a couple of days to say the least...So. Many. Slats....
After all that, we still couldn't get all of that butteriness off. So we did what any DIY'ers would do....we shrugged our shoulders and said "maybe it won't matter"
After a good sanding and wipe down we got to work staining. We started with a Kona base which was this beautiful rich brown. The places where we couldn't get all the paint off? Well, it didn't take quite as well in those spots, but, we were going for rustic not perfect luckily. So we forged on and stained every piece. We then gave each one a light sanding to remove some of the stain further and we were left with this streaky sort of effect. Keep in mind, everything we did was with the grain...so it looked very natural. After that we took Driftwood stain to it. He rubbed it on and I immediately went over it with a rag to rub it in / off. After all the pieces were done, the effect almost brought tears to my eyes. It was beachy, it was cool, it was rustic. It was our son's crib exactly how I had imagined it! Turns out that the butter color we couldn't get off in all the spaces...helped us tremendously in the end. Gotta love that!
So, here's what we started with....
And here is the end result.
So in love with it! Stay tuned for Part 2 where I show you a super cheap (and damage free) way we created a football field on the main wall behind the crib!
I'd love to know your DIY baby adventures! Anything turn out like you pictured it? Comment below and don't forget to follow our blog!
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