As I mentioned in my last post about the girls’ room renovation I have been working on a few DIY projects. One of them was giving new life to a tired, sad, little storage bench that used to live in my office area and relocating it to the girls’ room to serve as their dress up station. As anyone with daughter’s knows the amount of dresses, tutus, high heels, tiaras and wands can be overwhelming if not stored properly. Their dress up clothes used to hang on a custom Princess Dress Up Peg Rack. While this was very cute, and easy for the girls to get their dresses and clean up afterwards, there was still the issue of what to do with the accessories? Since everything had to come down from the walls so we could repaint I decided not to re-hang the peg rack. Instead I decided to reuse the piece from my office and freshen it up.
This is what the storage bench looked like before
The guy at the hardware store told me I wouldn’t need to prime the piece, just a light sanding with fine sand paper and two coats of Krylon Gloss white paint.
After the first coat I was a little concerned about seeing all the brush strokes. Yikes!
I waited 30 minutes and then applied the second coat. The brush strokes were vanishing and the piece was looking bright and shiny
Like most little girls mine are obsessed with all things princess. I didn’t want their room to feel juvenile so I didn’t put princess decals on the wall, or get them princess bedding, but I did want them to have something princess-y so I ordered princess decals from ebay and stuck them all over their new dress up box.
Now there’s a container each for dresses & tutus, tiaras, wands & fairy wings, and high heels. The girls love their new dress up station and I love how neatly everything tucks away out of sight.
How have you re-purposed an existing piece of furniture?
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