3D Wallpaper in the master bedroom!

3D wallpaper. Sounds like something from the future circa 1962.

Our bedroom wall was boring. In the middle is a flat screen tv, soundbar, and fireplace. After we moved the large mirror to another wall, you could see a few obnoxious holes from screws and putting something else up there would make the wall look busy... but without the mirror, it looked blank. Unbalanced.

The mirror got moved. Now it's ugly over here.

What to do?

I've been trolling these neat stone and wood look wallpapers on Aliexpress for a while now, so guess what.

We bought a couple of rolls, some paste, and away we went.

I'm really impressed by how realistic this paper looks on the wall. This entire project cost about $50 including paste, new blades and a lovely smoothing squeegee.

We bought the lightest color they had, but they do sell darker shades as well!

Our Dresser - The Unveiling!

Our $20.00 thrift store dresser is finished! Let's refresh your memory... before...

Dresser - Before

We cleaned it with water and mild detergent, sanded only where necessary, and used Minwax Gel Stain in Hickory to deepen the color. We replaced the knobs and spray painted the stiletto tips with silver spray paint.

Look at it now!

A place to store your socks..?

We've been without a dresser since we moved in. That's nearly six months! Our underthings are in BOXES in closets.

The trouble is, everywhere I looked, dressers were too expensive, too ugly, or too "aged". I wanted something (initially) that was curvy (think Queen Anne) and had cabriole legs. I want to be the one to paint it or stain it, and I kept running into a lot of pieces that were already "refinished".

So we're at Unique thrift store with my brother and his girlfriend the other day and I spot a short, wide dresser with clean lines and stiletto legs, clearly from the late 1950's to the 1960's. I look at the price taped to the top and how about that, $19.99! I love the legs, I love the Danish, mid-century vibe.

We grabbed the tag, paid, loaded it into Bambi and took it home. It's in the garage at the moment, somewhere between done and this, the condition we got it in:

Dresser top.

It came with hardware, but I'll be changing that anyway.

I'm so excited to finish it off and bring it in! I'm going super modern with it. Oh, and no more socks in cardboard boxes :)