This weekend's project was to finish up the final touches in the guest room. While that room has been functional since we moved in (meaning it had a comfy bed and sheets), we still had to put up the shelves and pictures in the room. This was pretty easy since we essentially moved the guest room as-is from our old house, so we didn't have to buy or plan anything new. We just had to set aside the time to pull out the tools and get it done. We drilled the IKEA picture shelf in above the bed and just set the framed photos onto it. Then an easy-peasy hanging of some art that my friend Tiffany gave me when she moved to Minneapolis.
Then came the difficult part: the light boxes. We had bought these fun light boxes at IKEA a few years back to use as a night light for the guest room. It is a metal frame with two light bulbs in each, and then you can select from a variety of glass art to place in front of the light box. We had this one with the Leaf design to match our bedding:
The pane is made of glass, but it survived the move. It did not, however, survive me dropping it as we were unpacking. We went back to IKEA on the chance that they still carried this design - we have bought a lot of things there that they are still carrying years later. But no such luck. An internet search didn't show up any for sale either. So Matt decided that we could make our own with some plexiglass and spray paint.
He bought a pane of the plexiglass from Home Depot, and I picked out a nice green shade of paint. We used the dimensions of the surviving glass pane to measure out our new plastic panes, and Matt cut them out of the sheet using an exacto knife. I used some butcher paper to cut out the new leaf pattern that I wanted to paint on. I held the paper template in place over the new panes while Matt sprayed the leaves on. A quick second template for the stem and some brown paint, and we had a masterpiece on our hands :) Matt finished them off with white spray paint to make the glass more opaque, and then we left them out to dry and air for a few hours. Once we had the light boxes drilled into place on the walls by the bed, we slid in the new panes and voila!
We are now calling the guest room complete - welcome to Hotel Hesselbacher!
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| Close-up of the new Light Box |
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| Lights out to see the Light Boxes in action |
I can't wait to utilize your new amenities! It's funny how you guys write about upgrading your house and I write about upgrading my toys. Couple vs Single lifestyle definitely plays its part there! :P
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