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your first time here my name is katie of salvaged by k scott and i am a full-time furniture flipper
furniture painter saver of furniture from the landfill
er but in today's video instead of making over a single piece of
furniture we are going to be making over my nine-year-old son's entire bedroom
this is my nine-year-old son lincoln's bedroom and it is in need of some serious tlc we've lived
in this house for just over six years now so this has been his room since he was three the walls are
battered and honestly filthy the color is boring beige he has a hodgepodge of
different broken hand-me-down furniture nowhere to display his favorite lego builds or his weird
little meme collection and it's really just time to change things up this is our mood board for
lincoln's new space we worked on pulling this inspiration collage together back in the fall
just to come up with some ideas so that he and i were on the same page with things
we're not going to be replacing the carpet or scraping the popcorn ceiling
his fan is toast so we are going to be swapping that out we're also going to be painting the walls
in his favorite green and reworking the layout i've collected a few new things a few second hand
dressers from facebook marketplace and i'm going to be flipping a new headboard and a thrifted tub
chair to bring things all together we got started by clearing things out and emptying the whole room
we sorted through lego we sorted through laundry i moved his nightstand and dresser out to the garage
and then we pulled these led light strips down from around the window and all of the paint came
with it next i got to work washing the walls and trim with some simple green and hot water
i also went around the room with a putty knife and some drywall spackle to fill in
all the damaged spots and then once that was dry i sanded it smooth with a 220 grit sanding block
saturday morning dad doug mr salvaged got started on painting we used bear marquee
in this glorious green that link chose called green agate on all of the walls
as per the boss's instructions and the trim and doors got a fresh coat of bright white
doug has these strips of poster board that he cut up a long time ago and he
just shoves those up under the baseboards whenever we are painting up close to carpet
i think they're just genius we have enough to go around the room
so there's no worrying about having to move them or trying to tuck bulky drop cloths up underneath
i had big plans to do a diy leather headboard build but once i priced out the lumber
and the upholstery materials i decided that this 92 dollar metal and fabric amazon option
was going to be the smartest choice i really wanted a warm rich leathery look so i am going
to diy that with some paint just not yet i knew that i wanted to center the bed on this back wall
but that wasn't going to leave a ton of space in the room for a regular dresser so i started
looking on facebook a few weeks ago for some small ikea dressers to put on either side of his bed
this way he's still got the drawer space of a six-drawer dresser but they double as
nightstands i thought for sure whatever i found would need to be painted or cleaned up in some way
but i managed to find a matching set of two malm dressers in pretty much brand
new condition for just forty dollars each now we needed to make some new shelves to
showcase the never ending lego collection i bought these metal brackets from amazon
and then i cut down some 1x8 pine boards to the same length as the dressers i stained them with
a warm brown and we hung up three shelves on each side of the bed right above the dressers
doug also managed to swap out the broken ceiling fan with this
snazzy new propeller style one that lincoln chose from home depot
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now for the headboard i totally scored with the fact that this padded panel comes off with just
a few bolts so i could take just this part down to the garage to work on it you've probably seen
one of the many painting upholstery to look like leather videos somewhere on social media recently
i have attempted to chalk paint an upholster chair before and it just didn't work at all for me
so i chose to attempt the fabric softener and latex paint method that drew from lone fox made
pretty famous last year i grabbed three colors of latex paint these are all from benjamin moore
i have a light camel a medium brown and a darker brown and i mixed up a bit of paint at a time in
a two to one ratio of paint to fabric softener as you mix the fabric softener
into the paint it kind of thickens up into a gel like consistency i sprayed down my
fabric with some plain water and then brushed on my lightest color over the whole headboard
this is definitely one of those times where it looks awful right up until
the very end so you really just have to have faith and trust the process
i let each coat of paint dry and then sanded it with some 220 grit sandpaper
to smooth out any roughness or bits of fabric fibers that had balled up in the paint
my first coat was just the one color and for the second coat i started to blend in some of
the darker saddle brown color around the edges to add some depth and dimension i had a jar of plain
water there as well just to keep everything really wet so that the paint colors would
blend together easier it ended up that the two darker colors that i had chosen from ben moore
were almost identical not as different as i was hoping so i ended up skipping the middle tone
using the darker tone as my mid-tone and then i grabbed some house and canvas chalk style
paint out of my furniture paint stash in the very appropriately named color leather and used that
as my darkest shade in the third and fourth coats is when i added that darker shade again around the
edges with each layer of paint the fabric got a softer and more leather like feel to it so i just
kept that lightest color in the center blending out darker and darker as it got to the edges
this little tub chair that i thrifted for 12.50 on a half off furniture day
got the exact same treatment as the headboard but because it had this pretty strong
pattern with raised stitching that definitely shows through the paint
so it's not as good as i was hoping for or as good as the headboard turned out
but for my nine-year-old's bedroom i cannot be mad at it lincoln loves bright colors so we bought
these fun posters on society6.com and framed them to fill in the space between the shelves
once i had those hung on the wall the headboard was dry enough to put the bed back together
i also thrifted this bulletin board a little while ago and i'm going to
use some leftover furniture paints in a bunch of different colors to
refresh it a little and kind of try and tie it into that funky poster above the bed
to finish things off in here i made up his bed with some fresh white sheets and this awesome
duvet that i also got from amazon i filled his new shelves with some of his favorite lego builds
we did also stick his led lights back up on the back of his dressers and headboard
to give a really cool backlit effect without destroying the wall again
so
i hope that you had fun working through this project with us
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have to get to planning my other son's bedroom makeover and now that lincoln's
is done i hope you have a fantastic rest of your day and i will catch you all next time
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