Surprise Makeover- Sewing Room re-do

I mentioned to you guys last week that my mom and I (and all three of my kids) were headed to my grandmothers house for a couple days while she's on vacation to re-do her sewing room (something she has been talking about doing herself for a long time now!).  We took Tuesday night, all day Wednesday, then Thursday morning to finish.  We had a budget we had to stay within so we couldn't do quite as much as we wanted, but it was still a major improvement!


Here is the Before!

She had most of her fabric stored in her bedroom closet, not even in this room! The cabinet is a sewing table that folds out when open, so when you notice there is no sewing space, it's all inside that cabinet.  But we thought the cabinet could use a face lift.  Grandma had been looking for something to fill that big empty wall above the couch for ever! The lamp was really wiggly and the head literally fell off!  Are you ready to see what we did with it?



The After!

Using sticky dots I cut nice, quality wrapping paper to the size of the cabinet insert to dress it up.  We didn't want to do anything to permanent since this is a surprise, but you could use mod podge to make this more durable.  The bookshelf is new from Target and took me 2.5 hours to put together! It was fun, but I had to back track twice for mistakes.  Galoshes doesn't read directions so I had to take that one on myself (although she did carry all the pieces to me when I needed them!).

We used a plastic place mat to add a pop of color to the desk.

Pictures pulled from closet, large pic on top is new.  We fell in love with it, it's a real photo on canvas of a bunch of 1920s women in swim suits lined up.  Grandma is a big swimmer so we also pulled some photos of her in suits throughout the years and added some camping photos that kind of fit the theme.  The gumball machine is thrifted, as well as the shelf.  Frames mostly from the dollar store.

Almost all of what you see above is thrifted.  The bottom shelf is from the hardware store and frames from dollar store.  Large button jar from Target.

Glass for bells I pulled out of her china cabinet.

Photos of grandma with her friends growing up to go along with the vintage women canvas.

We're sure she forgot she even had personalized woven tags!

Another doll from mom, although this one has been on display since I was a kid.  I loved her so much I even wore my hair like that for second grade school pictures! She was not for playing with though!

I hope you enjoyed seeing what we did with the place.  Can't wait for grandma to get home and check it out.  It's a complete surprise and early christmas gift so we wrapped the door!