Dressing Room/Vanity

I haven't posted to my blog in a little while.  I need to be more consistent in doing that.  I just get busy and forget sometimes.  I do want to post a little about what I'm doing in my home.  We have been getting things ready to redo our den/family room so that I can make it my craft/sewing room.  My main motivation for going ahead and doing this is that I really, really want to turn our guest bedroom into a dressing room for me.  Right now our guest bedroom is a real mess.  It's my current sewing room, but is not really functional as anything else.  Sometimes we have family or friends from out of town who would love to stay with us, but right now we have nowhere for them to sleep other than our sofa, which is not that comfortable.  So, we decided to turn our den, which gets no use whatsoever other than a "let's put it in the den to get it out of the way/junk room" recently.  We all have one of those rooms, right?  But, I don't want it anymore.  I managed to clean out the den, donate some clothes and other things to a local thrift store.  I also threw lots of stuff away.  Now, finally, our den is totally cleaned out.  We had to take up the gross carpet that was in that room and our plan is to lay some sheet vinyl in that room.  I just want something that will be easy to clean because I anticipate lots of scraps and stuff falling to the floor.  With vinyl it will be so much easier to clean.

I almost hesitate to put these pictures in, but here are a few of the den the way it is right now with the crappy floor that was underneath the carpet.  We had to take the carpet up and then scrape the padding off.  It was a really messy, backbreaking job.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple of photos of the current sewing room in the process of cleaning everything out.



 

 

 

I am so looking forward to getting these rooms arranged and in shape so I can enjoy them.  I have my mother's antique vanity table and stool that I can't wait to put into the new dressing room.  I also have her Jenny Lind bed that I will put in there as well so the room can also be used as a guest bedroom if needed.  My step-daughter had a wonderful suggestion about that.  She said that I could put it up against the wall and make a day bed out of it.  I thought that would be great because then it wouldn't be taking up space in the middle of the room.  I can't remember if the head board and foot board are the same size, but at any rate I think it will work.  I can't show you the actual bed because it is in our storage building right now, but here is a picture that looks very much like it.

 

 

I'm really excited to be getting these rooms in order.  It took us awhile to get someone to lay the vinyl in the den, but I think we finally have someone to lay it at a price we can afford.  They are supposed to come next week, so I hope all goes well.  I will be posting updated pictures later on.

 

I'm going to shift topics now and show you some more vanity tables and sets that I saw recently online.  I am so enamoured with vanity/makeup tables.  I'm so glad that I have my mother's that I can put in the new room.

 

Here is a little bit of eye candy from old Hollywood to Shabby Chic.