i have no business trying to re-up my bedroom. 
there is no excess funds in the clifford tank to support such a thing,
but we have been in a serious funk style-wise in the bedroom…

when a mom comes into town, its the best cause they are both project queens.
my MIL is the interior designer who knows furniture re-uping like no one else…
cept maybe natty.

i told her what i wanted to do and she flipped. so we spent the first 2 days of her vacation sanding and painting my new fabulous headboard and the coffee table that i can now sell…
{though now i have to keep it for a minute cause i love it…}

here’s the before:
{after it was sanded a bit. it is such pretty wood but just not me at all.}

and after repainting/glazing the medallion in a pretty gray/metallic,

to this:

and this old thing,
that i was going to throw up on craigslist and realized it just might be too ugly…

to this: