Project Gone Bad

When we got married, Tony had a house load of furniture so fortunately didn't have to buy anything. He had this antique bed which I believe belonged to his grandparents. I really like the the shape of the bed, but not the color.
It has broken in several places so we weren't too afraid to take a risk and try painting it.
We started spray painting the bed white...it was turning out so so cute!

Here I am modeling spray paint and boy shorts.

I was very excited
until it broke.

We tipped the headboard upside down (to paint the bottom) and that was too much for this old bed. In order to fix it, we needed to a welder. We found one but didn't think about needing to GET the bed to him! The bed didn't fit in our car. We finally had to ask ourselves how much money we wanted to put into this bed? If we're spending money to fix and paint it, we might as well look around for a new bed. Especially since there were lots of labor day sales going on.

Labor day weekend we went shopping for a new bed. I was pretty bummed because we weren't finding ANYTHING I liked. I knew I wanted a white bed but that ended up being harder to find than I thought. Tony suggested we get bunk beds :) At our last store, we were in the kid section and I found a twin bed I absolutely loved. Once you looked past the hot pink bedding and accessories, it really was a beautiful bed: white, clean lines, would brighten up our room, etc. Luckily, it came in the full range of sizes! So yes, our new bed is coming from a little girl's bedroom set.


Right now we are sleeping with our mattress on the floor. It feels like we're camping or something, but Charlie LOVES it. It's the perfect height for him to crawl and walk around. Unfortunately the bed rails are on back order so we'll be waiting until mid October (hopefully not longer) for the bed to arrive.

So in the end the project didn't work out, but now Tony and I have at least 1 1/2 months of fun sleep overs on the floor :)