A TRIP TO IKEA

An early morning trip to IKEA the other day lead to this

Which will eventually turn into this

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and this

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I’ll keep you posted on the progress!

WINDOW SHOPPING AT IKEA

On Friday I was finally able to make it to IKEA.  I had been wanting to go because all three of my boys are back in a room together. My oldest son having having his own room just didn’t work out like we thought it would, plus I figured I could put the other room to use in a better way. 

Anyway, while there I was able to see a few things that I had been eyeing on their website like the bunk beds that I plan to use in the space

These are the MYDAL bunks that are $159

I’m thinking of using to sets of these in the room and of course I would paint them!

I also fell in love with the colors used in this display.  The boys liked it too, so this may be the direction for the room.

The duvet is called BENZY and you must never judge an item by what you see online.  The duvet looks hideous on line!

I’m still loving this duvet that I used in the room at the Nicholas House

 

Some other things that I spotted at IKEA while there (that didn’t involve the boys room) included

These cute little “milk glass” looking glasses. And for only $1.49 a pop, I should have grabbed a few.

I think I need this little cart in my kitchen. 

I should have grabbed some of those baskets.  They would have been perfect under my bench in the kitchen and for $6.99 each (the top three), they would have worked for what I need them for.

I still prefer this table to my table.  The lines of it just seems a bit cleaner and less bulky. 

I. FELL. IN. LOVE. with this bookcase.  They also had it in yellow too which was equally lust-worthy.

I need the sofa, the table, the baskets, the chair, and the rug for my family room.

I love that they came out with the high gloss lack tables. They look very good in person!

High gloss EXPEDIT bookcase equals AMAZING! Can you see the shine?!

I wanted one of these chairs.  Why? I don’t know.

I almost purchased the pink chair!

This picture of the BILLY bookcase unit was not so much about the unit itself, but how this is the only way to get a picture of my husband for the blog!

To close out this post, I wanted to share the cutest napkin holder with you! I would probably spray paint it, but it looks pretty cool white. For $3.99, I may need to go back!

So, what did I buy??? I’ll show you tomorrow!

MY RAST HACK

Hi guys! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I was able to get a few things accomplished including hacking my IKEA Rast chests that will be used as my nightstands in my Master Bedroom.

I decided not to stain my chests because of this

This

and this

I don't know about you, but that was too many reminders that they are from IKEA!
I used Kilz oil based spray primer (which is now my new BFF), Rustoleum heirloom white spray paint (that I got for 20 cents!) and a clear gloss top coat

Since my husband assembled them (knobs and all), turned the knobs inside out so I would be able to open the drawers after I finished painting them


After my first coat of oil-based primer (did I mention it only takes an hour for this stuff to dry?), I sanded it a little with some 220 grit sand paper and applied a second coat primer


The reason why I sand between coats is because of this

Can you see how the paint runs a little? well we don't want that!!!

So after my second coat of primer dries, it's time for paint (the steps are the same as priming) After the paint dried, I added some knobs that I found on clearance at IKEA ($2.49 for two) and here is a glimpse of the finished "RAST HACK"

See how nice and "almost white" it look in this photo? Well, it's not like that really. It's more like this

After all that work, I may have to paint them again....

Stay tuned for the window panels I chose for the room and my $1.99 rods from William and Sonoma Home!


I'm linking this post up to Met Mondays over at Between Naps on the Porch

YES THEY'RE FROM IKEA

Have you seen all the "hacks" done on the Ikea RAST chest?



Just in case you've recently crawled from under a rock here are a few:

And here is my all time favorite (found here):

The above photo has two of my favorite things: the rast chest (hacked of course) and the Colette bed from Crate and Barrel!

I think these are going to be perfect for my nightstands. I'm going to purchase them tomorrow. Next up...finding the perfect lamps (YES LAMPS!). I'm thinking brass!