Almost four months ago, I showed you one of my top five favorite projects I’ve ever done – my DIY mirrored nightstand. I still love it! A week later, I was coveting a piece of furniture that I thought didn’t exist but thanks to the world wide web, a friendly reader and a town that I’m not too fond of (sorry Debbie, I’m an OSU gal!) I found exactly what I wanted and finally created a mirrored nightstand for the other side of our master bed.
Here he is! (I call mine a she, Conner’s side is a he. I feel its only appropriate.) I’m not totally happy with the styling and accessories but he’ll get there. At least he is finished and in place so my husband has a place to charge his phone and put down a water glass. Three months after I finished this nightstand, I’m finally showing you how it all came to be!
This was our humble beginning. Debbie from Norman was holding on to this piece to use outside. Luckily for me, it was still sitting in the garage and had yet to move so Debbie was willing to sell it to me. (I have plenty of those pieces!)
The bones were good but the back was too frilly for what I wanted. There were two small pieces of wood, held by small screws, that were holding the top scroll piece. It was super easy to take off the three pieces but then I was left with this hole. Crap.
After two trips to Home Depot (the first was just a thought process and the second I took Conner to make sure I measured right), I came home with two pieces of wood. The first piece of wood used was this small piece that fit perfectly in the new hole made from the missing top scroll piece.
The second piece of wood was actually a new layer to the top of the nightstand. When we set the nightstand next to the bed, it was just a smidge too short for what I wanted. I couldn’t find casters that fit the look for the price I wanted so I had a new piece of wood cut and used Gorilla Glue to attach it to the top of the old wood. After several coats of wood putty, some sanding and spray paint, it was just what I wanted! (I wasn’t looking for complete perfection since I knew you would be able to see the grain and knicks in the original wood)
I went through the same process of finishing this nightstand as I did on the first mirrored nightstand: the local glass shop cut the pieces of mirror to size, I used mirror adhesive to attach the pieces and glass knobs from Hobby Lobby finished it all off. I love it!
You can see the floor vent in this picture, aka my nightmare and the original reason why it took so long to find the perfect picture of furniture to fit this side of the bed. The floor vent deflector fits perfectly under here and our room has stayed nice and cool this summer.
The main wall of our bedroom looks perfect with the two mirrored nightstands and is exactly what I had pictured in my mind! Only a few more small details and I will show you a great before and after, complete with a picture of what this room looked like at our first showing!
The knobs are from Hobby Lobby and at the bottom of the two sections, I used navy and white scrapbooking paper to give some color and pattern to this piece. It feels so much more modern now.
This set from Home Depot is on sale for $299 plus free shipping! For $312 (with tax) this 5 piece set will be at our house next week, ready to set up shop on our lower/living room patio. I can’t wait!
This is a view from our upper, round patio looking back towards the house and the lower/living room patio on closing day last year. I say lower and upper because there are a whopping four stairs leading up to the one I’m standing on in the picture but it helps me clarify which one is which! The living room patio is where the couch set will rest and wait for us each day after work.
I love an outdoor rug to pull a furniture set together and it will be perfect on this patio! Outdoor furniture really is like inside furniture and the same rules apply. If we had hard floors inside, we would have a rug underneath our living room furniture. Same goes for outside. The concrete is hard so I want a soft rug. Makes sense, right? Right! Conner’s convinced this is just another scheme to get us to spend money but he does like the look of them so I’ve hooked him in to my world of creating an outdoor living space. 🙂 
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The upper/circle patio is next on my list for furniture. This is taken from the patio in front of the living room looking towards the back of the yard on closing day. Yes, that is Conner slapping a mosquito away while surveying our new digs. A sign of things to come that we quickly got under control thanks to bleach and mosquito dunks down our french drains! 
