Navy Blue Corner Desk

Recently I scored this awesome Corner Desk off Craigslist.

I've been keeping my eye out for something to fit in this odd corner of our house for a while now,

when I saw this it was basically love at first sight.

I knew right away what I wanted to do to it,

As always I can never keep my house looking the same, I recently decided to start overhauling all my furniture, my personal taste has changed a bit and I'm not into the shabby chic white pieces anymore.

So my first step of bring some color in was this little guy;

BEFORE:

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as you can see I had already taken the hardware off & filled up the holes with wood filler.

one of the reasons I got such a great deal on this piece was it was preeeeeetty beat up, definitely had some wear and tear but nothing a little sanding couldn't buff out ;)

AFTER:

I'm a huge fan of blues & greys.

Navy blue would hands down be one of my favorite interior design colors.

It's a neutral enough color but still gives a pop of color.

One of my favorite places to pick up cool knobs is World Market,

which is where I got this awesome brass & navy blue one.

I'm currently obsessed with this little desk & corner.

It fits perfectly and was just the look I was going for.

& the best part, no more scratches :)

I'm a sucker for some wood accent, I hate covering up beautiful wood on pieces so I always try to bring some part of it into my projects. 

Isn't it just so cute?!

So there you have it, the first start to my furniture overhaul.

What do you think of my color choice? Are you as much in love with this as I am?

xoxo

Jordyn luise

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Fancy Dog Food Bowl

If you are one of my Facebook friends or Instagram followers then this won't come as a surprise to you,

I am a little obsessed with animals.

More so, my dog, Harley.

My husband thinks that Harley is so spoiled, but, can you blame me?!

He is so cute!

There, now that we have all had our photo blast of my fur baby, we can carry on haha.

We are slowly but surely getting our house the way we want it & I don't know if it is just me but

I think that looking at two bowls on the floor is a total eye sore haha.

So I decided I wanted to make a more "pretty" food/water station for Harley. 

A lot of you might remember this entry way mirror and storage unit, I was in the process of selling it.

But an idea struck me && I decided to keep it.

Our house is a town house, you walk in and you see the all the way to the back of the house,

we don't really have a set "entry way" area so this was no use to us.

But I loved the shape of it & adored the curved mirror.

Only would I look at a vintage piece like this && think, HEY lets make a dog food station!

I know what you are thinking, something a long the lines of "uh............what?!"

Yeah, So was my husband.

Here are the materials you are going to need for this project:

• A Jig Saw {Not Pictured}
• A box of some sort {I used the base of the entry way storage, but this could easily be made with some wood & pre made legs at your local hardware store}
• Dog Food Bowls - We actually got mixing bowls from Walmart, my dog drinks so much water that it just gets annoying filling his bowl so many times in a day, we wanted something deeper then the average dog food bowl so we found these in the Kitchen isle at Walmart & they are easy on the eyes to look at && fairly cheap as well {$6 or $7 I believe?} so that was a double bonus.
• Paint & Protective Coat & Paint brushes - I used Valspar's Dark Kettle Black in Flat & Rustoleum Ultimate Polyurethane in Matte Finish, & A separate brush for painting & protective coat.
• I also Used Valspar's Chalkboard Paint & had some chalk that I picked up at Michael's.

Now onto the fun part!

Step 1: Cutting & Placement

Before you start cutting wholes you want to plan out where you want the bowls to go,

Once you have that figured out you want to take the bowl and make a clear cutting line for it.

But when cutting keep in mind you want to actually cut the hole about half an inch in from where you drew the circle.

You want the bowls to sit on top && not fall through the holes, so make sure that the bowls you use have some sort of a lip on them.

Along with these being a nice shiny silver, we chose them as the dog food bowls because of the wide lip around the top of the bowl for that exact reason.

Step 2: Painting & Top Coat

I chose to paint this black for multiple reasons.
This will be sitting to the right of our cabinet that houses our microwave/pantry in the kitchen.
I didn't want to paint it white like most of my furniture because this will be used everyday.
I also didn't want to paint it blue or grey {the other colors in our house}
because I didn't want it to compete with our dark grey kitchen cabinets.
{to see our kitchen update/renovation check it out here}
So I chose black.

Along with painting the entire thing Black I chose to paint the detailed insert with chalkboard paint.
I love that you can't tell that it's chalkboard, it all blends in, making it look classic and simple.
I wanted to give it a fun element by adding the chalkboard and making it more "personal".

Here is a picture of it before I put everything together,

We also loved that this had storage & that it opened up on the top. It was a must for us.
We don't have a lot of storage in our house so I use to just sit the dog food to the right of our fridge.
What I love about this new dog food station is we now have a place to store the food without it being an eye sore.

&& here it is all done!!
I am loving how it looks & isn't an eye sore anymore!

As you can see, Harley isn't the only one who loves his new water & food station.

 

So what do you think?!
I will admit, I was nervous about dismantling such a cute piece of furniture but this is so much more functional for us && I would do it again in a heart beat!

I have other places for the mirror that was once attached to this,

you will later see that when I show what we've been up too in our bedroom which has taken a complete overhaul over the past year.

As long as finishing up random projects around the house we are working on our laundry storage, bedroom & dining room right now.

So stay tuned for more updates on that && some client work I will be showing later this week :)

I hope you all are having a great  day & start to fall!

I go back to school on the 21st so I'm trying to get caught up with all our projects going on around here,

as well as a new job & more client work!

It is finally starting to cool down here in NC.

I am so ready to bust out my sweaters && boots.

I just hope NC keeps this up ;)

Talk to you all soon!

xoxoxo

Jordynluise

Mint Green

Lately I have been color crushing on mint green. bad.

I always catch myself gravitating more & more towards mint green accessories.

It meshes so well with all the hues of grey I have in my house.

I will be sharing picture of our house soon, the purchase of a new couch turned into an overhaul of 

the living room downstairs ;)

I have some awesome D.I.Y. posts lined up for that, but for now,

I scored the cuuuuuuuutest little nightstand when my mom was in town.

&& of course, I incorporated my new color love into this lovely nightstand.

This little beauty is available for sale in the show now.

Before:

I'm not a big fan on these nightstands in their original state.

they are just a bit too rich? for my taste.

It just looks too stuffy.

But I love love love the shape and character of this style! 

I knew right away what hardware I wanted to put on it & what color I wanted.

Now she looks 10000x times better ;)

After:

I lovvvvvve this color so much!

It is by Valspar.

I don't quite know the name because my neighbor gave me the paint as mistint.

It has just enough color to it.

I decided to put some new old hardware on it.

I wanted to give it a different look then what originally came with it.

{which there was only one}

If you don't know what kind of pulls i'm talking about check out this post here.

I did a similar style set of night stands for a client in Kentucky Blue Grass by Color place.

Every single time I have furniture I get to sell I always want to keep them!

But could you blame me?!

I'm such a furniture junkie haha :)

These pulls were actually my old kitchen cabinet pulls.

If you don't remember then check out our kitchen reveal here.

I love that these pulls have history to them, it compliments this adorable nightstand so well.

They are modern enough but are still antique looking.

I think it makes a huge difference for this little night stand compared to its before.

You will be seeing much more mint pieces in my work coming up!

I'm currently working on a dresser that will be for sale in my shop as well in this color!

&& in case you forgot this one IS for sale;

check it out here with the other pieces I currently have for sale as well.

T.G.I.F!!

Too bad my work week doesn't end here ;)

I hope you all have amazing plans for this week & have a great day!

Happy Friday Everyone!

xoxox

Jordynluise

Grown Up Little Girl Rooms

Lately I have been getting a ton of custom requests for little girls rooms.

Everyone is switching to their "big girl rooms" & it is so nice to get to play with fun colors!

I had a chance to work with two very sweet ladies recently so I thought I would share both of their furniture transformations in one post since their daughters rooms were both in a state of transition.

Two completely different looks but two adorable looks ;)

First off we will start with Dalia's Little Girls room:

For her daughters room she wanted something white & metallic for her head board & night stands:

Before:

Juuuuuuuuuust kidding.

I completely blanked on this portion of the project. Whoopsies!

Before they were all white with antique hardware {the french looking ones}

So we opted to modernize them to go with a different feel for the room.

After:

I love the look of the two tones, it really makes it pop 

yet, is still neutral enough that it could go anywhere in a home other than a little girls room :)

I really love the detail on these night stands, the charming character of them really meshes well with the new modern hardware & silver metallic paint.

I really wish I would have taken before pictures because one of the biggest transformations was the hardware, changing it to modern silver knobs with detail around them & a bin pull made a HUGE difference. 

They turned out soo good. 

This was my first project using metallic paint on furniture & I don't think it will be my last.

I really love how the drawers trick you into thinking their are 4 but in all reality these are just two drawers!

I love extra hardware ;)

& I was in the process of moving these out to the truck to deliver them when I realized I didn't get a picture of this super cute headboard so I'm sorry for the presentation haha!

This was such a fun set to work on! I loved how girly but grown up it came out.

You can never go wrong with white & grey! :)

& Now for the other little girls room.

I loved that she wanted to play with fun bold colors.

I remember back in the day when I had a Hot Pink & Purple room.

It must just be a phase every girl goes through haha!

This bookcase has totally captured my heart.

I want to be a little girl again so I can have it in my room!

Before:

This nightstand had seen many lifes,

orange, blue, grey, green, ect.

It was fun to see all the colors when I sanded it down.

I couldn't wait to get my hands on it! 

Therefore. The hot pink was already painted haha :)

Before it was all orange & blue.

After:

Are you in love?

Because I so am.

Please excuse the hot pink section, it was still drying, 

I was just too excited with how it all turned out.

I loved this whole two tone feel that both projects had going on.

The hot pink really popped against the dark purple.

The arc on the sides on the bookcase really make a huge impact on the whole feel of this bookcase.

I couldn't picture it any other way now.

The colors look so good for a little girls room!

When my client came to me with these cute little hooks I was smitten,

they really tie the two colors together.

So what do you guys think?!

It was so fun to work for both clients & their daughters rooms.

Its a nice change from all the "grown up" furniture I do.

Color is always a fun experience.

Have you guys fallen in love with any bold or fun colors lately?!

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Have a great Tuesday everyone!!

xoxox

Jordyn Luise Blog