Summer Project

I decided to start a project today!  Now let me be honest.  I love to buy things with the intent to make them great.  Sometimes I do and well…sometimes I don’t!  I bought this ugly item back last December at my Goodwill for 50% off of the price tag on the bed so yep, $4.99 was my price.  Nice.  It is very heavy and I just loved the high headboard.  I am not sure of the age of it but it is very heavy and solid. It did not have the bed rails with it, so I will have to “rig” it up to the bed frame.  I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it!  Currently it is painted a very ugly and very bright yellow.  I am not sure what I will do with it when I am finished.

I started stripping it today and made a good bit of progress.  I ran out of stripper though and I let it dry too long the first time around so I really did not get off as much as I would have liked to.  Next weekend I will add another coat of stripper.

The headboard (backside of it) and the footboard.  I think the curved accent are very feminine and will look very girly when finished. 

$9.99 was a bargain but hey, 50% off is even better!!

 

The front of the headboard and the front of the footboard. 

Paint Stripper doing the work

What do you think?  Should I paint it white so that it it will match pretty much anything in Sofia’s room or stain it back to the original condition.  I think I might be leaning towards staining it but then I also think painting it and then maybe adding a monogram to the headboard might also be nice.  Let me know what you think – paint or stain.  If I paint it, what color?