I’ve been picking up little household things here and there in order to bring more color into my life/keep my mind off school/make things interesting/cozy. Over the past few months I’ve garnered quite the collection of decor: mirrors, lamps, linens, frames, amongst other tchotchke.
This week’s decorating ventures included a mirror I thrifted for $1.99. It looked like a really fancy carved wood frame, but when I approached it and picked it up I felt the weight of it and realized it was plastic!
I knew I could do something with it, and set my sights on giving the mirror a paint job. It’s been hanging across from my bed — the first thing I see when I wake up and the last thing I see before I sleep, so it’s pretty prominent. After weeks of deliberation, I decided it had to be my favorite GREEN.
So I scrounged my spray paint archive (which is rather impressive, if I do say so myself) and found the green I was looking for. (As an aside: In making a list of my interests I’ve decided, “spray paint” nears the top of the list…) I primed and painted the mirror and oh! It looks so, so lovely. A beautiful departure from it’s original state.
Check out these before&after pictures!
If that weren’t enough, I thrifted a groovy-shaped lamp yesterday. The shape was reminiscent of a gorgeous yellow lamp I’d seen in a photo from design*sponge earlier in the day…
So of course, it was only necessary that I attempt to recreate it. Here’s my version of the lamp!
My room now has a ton of happy colors. Which makes me…happy!
More prøjëx to come…
xo
j
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Love the lunch tray idea for holding make-up. You are simply brilliant Jenny.
–Courtney
u iz 1 crafty bizzo, cuzzy.