80's furniture gets a makeover

Above is a picture of my oldest son's room at our previous house. His furniture was my husband's when he was in high school! K loved it, but I knew it needed a makeover!!

So I found some tinted grey primer and some charcoal paint that I found on the mismatched paint aisle.

For $7, I thought it was a great deal!

I added some pulls that I had leftover when I replaced the ones in my kitchen. I did have to buy some knobs to go with them. And it turned out like this...

I know the pics aren't great. It's because I took them with my cell phone. I couldn't find my memory card at the time to use my camera, so I went the easy way and then I got too lazy to take some more!

I think you get the idea, though!

When we first moved to our new house, K was in a twin bed because he was sharing a room with his little bro. So, he was in a twin bed. We have since moved little bro. to his own room (I'll be showing you it soon!), so I got K's queen bed back out. I had to do something with the headboard and didn't have enough of the charcoal paint left. I kind of wanted to do something a little different and not so matchy-matchy anyway. So, I sanded it down,

covered up this nice motif with a plaque,

and put a coat of primer on it.

Then, I used another clearance quart of paint- this time a yummy cream. (I'm thinking of using this color on my kitchen cabinets.)

I distressed the edges to tie it in with the other furniture...and just because I like it that way. I love how it turned out!

I'm linking toTransformation Thursday and Furniture Feature Friday!