Room Makeover all finished.

Here is my daughters room all finished.    The walls are painted Cafe Latte and the furniture is all from yard sales or thrift stores...

The chandelier is made from an old gold & glass kitchen light .  The big glass shade was removed then the remaining fixture was spray painted white and decorated with strung acrylic beads, thrift store little lamp shades and a $2 light / chain conversion kit from Home Depot.

I'm sure my daughter will "personalize" this room with her own unique style...  but for now it's a refreshing change from her outdated  bedroom.


The only new items in this room are the bedspread, mattress and the rug... everything else is repurposed.   We stayed in our under $300. dollar budget and had alot of fun.. In the future if we want to change the  look of the room we'll have some warm but still neutral colors to start from...and if we need anything...  we'll know to go to the thrift store first.
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 This was a really fun project ...

Piece together a colorful mosaic table

I always think mosaic looks like a fun project,

 so I decided to give it a try.   

One day whilst hurrying thru a thrift store ( because I was supposed to be somewhere else.).  I snagged this little side table..  Mainly I liked the lion decoration on the front and since it was only $3.49......

Really who could resist.?

Once I took a good look at it when I got it home

I realized it was the perfect candidate for my mosaic project.

I had a couple brown ceramic tiles left from another project so I decided to not spend alot on this and go with a color that would match the tile I already had.  Luckily enough I found a can of Honey colored spray paint on clearance for 99 cents..!!!!  I picked one 18" light colored tile and one 6" decorative tile for the center.

After cleaning, sanding, primering, and spray painting the whole thing, I was ready to create some mosaic tiles.

The hammer worked pretty good for this..I covered the tiles with a thick layer of newspaper and pounded away...  the tiles broke into small pieces pretty easy.  Keep in mind tho that these are glass tiles and you do need to be careful.   Broken tile can be very sharp and little bits can fly around. 

Definitely wear protective eye gear.
 A trip to the emergency room can really take the fun out of your project.

I glued the center tile to the table top with tile adhesive, and then just played around with the pieces until I was pretty happy with how it all looked.   Some pieces broke with nice corner angles and straight edges so it was easy to puzzle them into a pattern...  The top of this table is plywood... to be very "handy-man" correct.. it should be masonry board because I am planning to use regular grout and it will contain moisture.. but since this is after all an experiment it's not probably worth the extra expense and hassel...  if I was doing a larger more "important" project I would go the extra step and get the masonry board for a foundation for the tile.

I glued down the rest of the pieces with the tile adhesive trying to keep it as level as possible with no sharp edges sticking up.

Let that dry for a day or two.

The grout that I used was sanded grout in a neutral beige....  I mixed it up pretty stiff, trying to make it not too sloppy since I do have the plywood table top to think about.

Here is the finished product with all the tiles grouted and 3 coats of clear gloss Minwax Polycrylic.

The plastic coating also helped to soften some of the rougher edges on the tiles

It looks pretty fabulous huh?

Worth evey cent of

$3.49.