Fall projects

Recently a friend commissioned me to make a headboard for her daughter's bedroom.  She wanted one made from a door similar to others I have done.  The difference for this project was that they wanted to do fabric inserts where the "panels" of the door are.

Their daughter is a teen and she wanted to update her room to a more sophisticated look. 

I started with a raw 5 panel door and cut it down to the appropriate width for a double bed.

I used the cut offs from the door as "legs" to raise the headboard to an appropriate height....

Primed and painted the whole thing white....

Then I cut pieces of wood to fit the inserts....and wrapped them in a layer of white felt (to soften the edges and pad it a bit) and the fabric.  I staple gunned the fabric to the wood backing.

 Then I attached the fabric inserts with my nail gun....

 The result is a really pretty and more sophisticated bed for a teen.

Hopefully she loves it!

Next project was a super quick little autumn decor project.  I don't get fresh flowers often enough for the house and decided that Friday dinner with friends coming over was the perfect time to change that.
I wanted something really pretty and fun for fall so I purchased 2 pumpkins and some small sunflowers.

I hollowed out the pumpkins to fit small cups as vases.....

 I also grabbed some grasses from our front garden to act as filler....

And then arranged them all inside the pumpkins for 2 really cute centerpieces!

All in all a productive week...let's see what next week holds in store....I'm planning on making some floating shelves out of cast off timbers.....fingers crossed!
Happy Fall Everyone!!