How I did it: Well, Raul and I moved all my furniture out, put it in the back yard, vacuumed, then went to home depot. I got 2 cans of black spray paint, 1 can of hot pink, a plastic drop cloth, and a gallon of Behr's "Candy Coated" a beautiful pink. My boyfriend payed, and we went home. He did 90% of the painting in my room, he was afraid I was gonna mess up, so he'd just rather do it himself :) Meanwhile, I went into the backyard and spray painted all my mismatched furniture black. My dresser, book case, and nightstand are all black with the inside of the drawers hot pink, so when you pull out a drawer, you just see a pop of color :) I also spray painted this mirror that had a really nice design to it, but was an awful mossy green. Its also black now :) After we got done painting, and everything was all dry, we moved the beautiful black furniture back in, hang up the mirror, fixed it up a little and now its just gorgeous :) I slept in it last night and it was so relaxing. So so so worth it :)

Lessons & tips: -always get a little bit more paint than you need.
-instead of buying new furniture, paint the old ones you have, I had this ugly bookcase for 10 years and it looks brand new now.
-always always devote a full day to painting, moving and cleaning up. we didn't start actually painting till 3pm, and finished at 12am, THEN still had to clean up.

Resources: -Behr
-Home depot
-Boyfriends credit card (he offered to pay :) )

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Mar 28, 2010, 07:26AM PDT | 0 comments | 3 cheers