My favorite little man loves and I do mean LOVES the Sooners!

He's always had a mish mash room filled with stuff that doesn't go together.  We've been in this new house for almost 4 years now.  We thought by building a new house that it would be "done" once we moved in...Haha.  We were so wrong.  Anyway, here we are almost 4 years later and still adding character and changing things as our tastes change.  Finally we're going to turn all the attention towards him and his room.

I've seen Board & Batten room re-do's all over blogland and took tips & tricks from tons of tutorials online to do my son's room.  Our walls are textured {I will NEVER have textured walls again I tell you!} but I think it still looks good.  

This is what it looked like afterwards.  I just now realized that somehow during all my editing of pictures I somehow deleted all the "before" pictures of my little man and his dad working hard on this room.  He actually helped level, cut and use the nail gun to put up the mdf with his dad.  Those pictures were so precious and I could cry right now!  Ugh -- 

Well, bare with me as I try to explain the transformation.  The walls were all painted a darker beige without the board & batten.  There was a small twin bed with an older dresser.  There were star wars, firefighter, and old WWII aircraft posters on the wall.

1.We found this white bed & dresser on craigslist.  We  {my guy} sanded and sprayed these both black.

2. We bought two sheets of mdf from the Home Depot and used a table saw to rip these down into 3 1/2 strips for top and 2 1/2 vertical strips.  This literally took less than an hour! 

3.We laid all the cut MDF out on black plastic in the garage and sprayed them in Crisp Linen by Behr.

4.  I painted the top half of the wall in a light beige tone.  I used two half-empty gallons of Pottery Barn colors that were left over by mixing them together.  Left over paint = FREE and it looks good so I'm happy.

5.  Painted the bottom half with Crisp Linen by Behr in a satin finish.

6.  The big man and the little man put up all the MDF and then helped me caulk. and caulk. and caulk.

7.  I went ahead and painted the bottom half one more time for a good even coat and to cover up all the filled nail holes.  Did I mention that you will be caulking till your hair turns gray!

8.  Last was the fun part -- putting the room back together! 

This is the dresser that was white and the hardware was black.  We sprayed the furniture with Behr satin black.  We used Rustoleum hammered brush nickel spray paint for the hardware.  We lightly sanded this dresser & the bed, then gave it a good cleaning before spraying it.  We let it dry overnight just to make sure it was good and dry.

I still need to replace the hardware on this little side table, but I'm trying to find something that looks similar to the dresser.  In the next picture you can see that we decided to go all the way around the windows with the MDF to frame them.  This step was a little tricky since our home has bullnosing EVERYWHERE.  I was hesitant to do this step at first, but now I'm so glad we did. 

The bed/dresser was from craigslist.  The red panels are from Target -- I think I might buy two more panels instead of just having one per rod.  The rods were from TJ Maxx.  The shirts in the frames; two are signed by players and were from the 2003 Rose Bowl and the other is a 1978 shirt from the Orange Bowl.  The BOOMER SOONER sign is one I made & so is the OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL sign above the shirts.  I'll post more about those later.  The TV was a gift from Santa!  I still have some tweaking to do, but this is all I have so far. We broke this project up and didn't try to do it all in a day.

• Day 1 - painting all the walls
• Day 2 - painting the bed
• Day 3 - Ripping/cutting all the MDF
• Day 4 - installing all the MDF/caulking/painting/putting everything back in the room.

We are really happy with how it turned out. Hope you like it too! xoxo

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Bella Before and After

New Dresses for my Windows...

I love the way my guy designed the back of our house to have a large back porch with lots of windows. In the mornings the kitchen is flooded with tons of light.  However, in the evenings I wanted them covered because I get the heeby jeeby feeling someone is watching me out there in the darkness.  Not a good feeling, especially when he is gone for long periods of time. When we first moved in we installed creme colored roman shades on all four of the windows and they were great, at first.  After constantly pulling them up in the morning and letting them down at night they wore out pretty quickly and at about $100 each I wasn't ready to spend that again!  Here is our compromise...

Initially I had the idea of one long rod across the top, but that was like 12 feet across.  We were in Home Depot and these were just a spur of the moment purchase.  The rods were clearanced down from $39 per rod to $6 per rod.  Quite a steal!  The panels were not, but we figured we could splurge somewhat on those since we got such a good deal on the rods.

Here is a closeup of the pattern.

I'm happy for now, but I change my mind quite frequently so we'll see how long this stays!  Maybe a lighter shade of fabric for Spring.  I was thinking it would be fun to experiment with drop cloths and ribbon or some accent fabric. Till next time...See Ya!

Hand Painted Welcome Sign...

Here's our latest project for the front porch.  Our front porch is HUGE and we love it!  We get a lot of stormy  weather here in the spring and fall and our family loves to sit on the porch and watch it move through. We needed a pretty large sign...

This is what we came up with...  

 It is almost 5 feet long and about 2 feet wide...yep it's HUGE!  I was thinking a painted black frame or maybe a rough cedar frame?  I am also going to sand it a little to give it an aged look and put a light stain/sealer over the top.  

We made that sign back in February of 2011.  One of the *original* pallet signs if you will.  The above sign sold right off of our porch.  Then we made this one...

Then this one...

This crazy sign started a business hobby that is still going strong today in 2014!  Thanks to all of you who have pinned it, word has gotten around.  We've seen it duplicated everywhere!  We'd like to think we had a hand in helping to start the pallet wood craze.

We sell lots of different style pallet signs now, and we'd love for you to visit our Etsy Shop to see how our style has evolved over the last several years.

If you are interested in the *ORIGINAL* Welcome Friends & Family reclaimed wood sign, you can find it HERE. 

If you don't already then we would love to have you join us over at FACEBOOK.  Plus, our FB fans see the newest designs first & get all the best discounts!

We truly appreciate all the interest in this sign.  If you want to make your own, for your own home then we'd love to see a picture!  You can send it to...threemangoseeds@yahoo (dot) com.

However, if you own a sign business or an Etsy shop, please do not copy ours exactly.  Be creative -- change up the design (font) to make it your own. Thank you.

Thanks for stopping by!