I'd love to do a dinosaur nursery. Why? Because I love dinosaurs! However, our nursery pieces are an ocean/under-the-sea theme. My sister-in-law passed the set onto us, and since I'm too cheap to go buy new stuff when I've got something that's barely worn that was free... sea creatures it is.
Again with the iced-coffee-tan-blah color. Way to go seller on the "mass spray paint" job. Better than old, peeling, random paint jobs, I guess.
First things first - furniture. Hooray for more hand me downs - this was actually my dresser/changing table when I was born.
Again, from my sister-in-law, a side table. We've used this as a phone table in the kitchen, a bedside table, an entryway table... It's been moved around a bit, for sure.
Time to sand & prime (note Oliver's dresser in the background). Our garage was a sight for a week or two.
2 coats of brown followed by two of off-white. If I ever do this technique again, I'll only use one coat of off-white - it would be easier during the sanding step. After the white had dried for a day, I got my turn on the power sander (oh. my. goodness. I loved the power!).
The furniture got left in the garage for awhile while I headed upstairs to paint. 2 walls are a light blue, the other 2 a darker, more teal. You can sort of see in the picture below, but the closet is on a dark wall, so I painted the inside of the closet with the light blue so that it'd pop.
I'm no artist - all the creatures are the result of Google and several hours penciling outlines. I used craft paint for the animals and it's held up really well thus far.
This turtle is my pride and joy. Even if he wants a robot room later in life, he's got to work the darn turtle in somehow...
The finished dresser.
The finished project.
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