Play room turned Art is Beauty Art Studio for under $200 REVEAL

Well my Beauties, its finally HERE!

The REVEAL of my finished Art Studio.

I know you have all been patiently waiting to see it

and now the time is finally here.

If you remember, this is the BEFORE.

It was suppose to be a quick project of ripping out carpet, 

painting and moving in and making it my studio,

but then we found water damage......

So you know what that meant....

DECONSTRUCTION...

and then CONSTRUCTION!

You can see all of the first post HERE

You can see from this picture that I had gotten through with the hydraulic cement

and moved on to dry locking. 

That was fun!  NOT!!

Also I had sprayed my trusses.

I wanted to have and industrial feel in the room but still wanted the

white ceiling. This really lightened up the room,

but it was an ALL day process. That old pine soaked up the paint like water in the desert.

You can see on the wall where if my sprayer got clogged I would work spray graffiti on the wall

to make sure it was started back up. 

(hey when you are doing mind numbing work you need some entertainment) :)
Plus all the walls were going to be painted the same white as the ceiling :)

Now it was time for the FUN part.

I had never ever...ever never...never ever...painted  faux brick before.

But I didn't let that stop me.

Did I youtube it.?..NOPE...

Did I look on Pinterest.?...NOPE..

I just grabbed a bunch of paints and started working the wall..

I first put down a almost dark purple color.

I wanted to make sure my brick had depth.

Since real old brick has tons of different colors in it

I knew I had to have LAYERS.

I roller'ed on my purple paint not being too careful.

I wanted to make sure some other colors would show through in the end.

I then went over that with a Dirty gray.

That gave even more depth to the color.

After that I mixed up a custom Brick color that I wanted.

Not to red and not too orange. 

I again used a sponge roller to put that on.

I used the sponge roller after a couple different things because if you didn't fill the roller it left 

little gaps and let the other colors show through, which exactly what I was going for.

After all the paint was dry I used a dark glaze to antique up the brick.

Concentrating on certain areas of the brick to make it look OLD.

At this point I was in LOVE.

But I had a vision from the very beginning.

This was one of those projects that I could see in my head before I even started.

I KNEW what I wanted this room to look like..

I just had no idea HOW I was going to do it.

My inspiration had been old new york apt.  Vintage brick with what are called "ghost signs" on the brick

Vintage advertising.

This was what my head had seen when it envisioned my studio.

thanks to my friend Shelly from Shizzle.

It was finally going to be a reality.

She gave me this overhead projector YEARS ago.

Like....that's how I met her...

I was saying how I NEEDED one..

she lived by me and said...I have one..you can have it.

and we have been friends ever since.

And oh yeah...the projector has sat in my basement since then..

Hubby really LOVED that. 

He wanted to get rid of it and I said..NO...I know I am going to need it..

and I DID....

I used a graphic from "the graphics fairy"

and projected it on my wall.

I grabbed my brushes and paint and started laying it down.

While the paint was drying on the ad.

I started putting down my flooring.

We had gone back and forth on whether or not I was going to paint the floor.

But we had to rip out the tack strips from the cement and it left gouges and holes where

they had been. 

I found these cheap vinyl wood floor strips that are self stick at menards.

So far the only MONEY I had spent on the room was the drylock.

I had everything else on hand. 

I ended up doing the entire floor for $80 

and it was so easy.

We had it done in a day.

So now its time...

Time for the final reveal...

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!

TADA!!!!

Here she is..

In all her glory!!!

The paneling was painted...

the trim was up..

and I could move my stuff in.

All my furniture
was from Garage sales and Goodwill.
The Easel and Everything.
The Mid Century Mod Italian Chair. I got for 6 bucks.
I looked it up and they are Rare and sell for over $150
I am so glad I hung onto it until I could use it in my studio.

The kids old playroom shelves now held my art supplies.

I used Gold stencil cream to stencil on one of my fave quotes right on the wall as you walk

in and then just framed it with a gold frame.

I put my antique school desk in and started hanging some of my paintings on my

gallery wall.

and my desk is filled with all things that make me happy.

Even these vintage water color pencils.

My father in law found them for me.

I had them when we were kids.

They were my favorite pencils.

He found them NEW in the box.

Some old art teacher was selling her stuff and

he thought of me.

He is pretty sweet :)

I honestly LOVE my new art studio!

It is my favorite room in my house now.

I find myself just sitting in here even when I am just drinking coffee.

It is truly "where I want to be"

It turned out exactly how I had envisioned it in my head.

I can't believe I finally have my own creative space.

A place to call my own and my refuge when I need some Me time.

I look back at the old pictures and I can't even believe it was the same room.

So from a quick makeover 

to a full on construction that ended up costing me under $200

Dry lock    $35

Vinyl floor $80

Trim           $50

That's a lot of transformation for not so much money!

I couldn't be more thrilled.

I hope you enjoyed the reveal.

If you wold like to keep up with 

what I am up to IN the MOMENT 

(many who follow me on instagram got to see previews of this room)

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Until next time,

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL

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Playroom turned ArtIsBeauty Art studio Part 1 DECONSTRUCTION

 Hello again my BEAUTIES!

This weekend has been crazy busy and a ton of work.

You see; You know that old saying...

"man makes a plan and God laughs"

Yeah..this room....was one of those PLANS! :)

 This is the kids playroom in the basement.

I painted that chalkboard wall almost 20 years ago.

So long ago that I had to go to a specialty paint store to get a quart of chalk board paint 

because they didn't sell it in stores... Who knew, for once I was WAAAY ahead of the trend.

Well any who..

I had planned on turning this into my art studio. 

It had slowly over the years just turned into a "CRAP CATCHER" room.

My "PLAN" ....I use that term Loosely; was to QUICK empty the room,

Keep the chalkboard wall, rip out the carpet and paint the trim...

 But when we moved the furniture we saw was water damage coming in from behind the wall...

See that part right there....that was God Laughing....There went my Quick plans.

I had planned on keeping the ceiling also. Even though I wasn't really a fan of it,

I didn't want to deal with taking it down!...again.....that HAD been the plan.

 You see, I couldn't get the old wall down to repair without taking out the ceiling. Its a drop

ceiling rail system and basically a complete pain in the butt to put back.

So my plan had to change again.

 We pulled the wall down to see where condensation had been building 

up on the cinder block wall. The wall board had been up when we moved in and

they used pneumatic nails with wood strips into the wall, then Styrofoam and Black plastic in between each layer. The nails driven into the cinder block had over the years let moisture in.
The plastic that had been in between basically held the moisture and there was no where for it to go.

So now came the fun part of repairing the wall. 

I used hydraulic cement to close up all the holes where the nails had rusted out and deteriorated and basically fell out of the wall. I did all this AFTER I had scraped and scraped and scraped and vacuumed and scraped some more all the damage parts of the wall down. I also used the cement 

on any fractures and cracks I found.  I DO NOT want to have to do this again. :)

Next up after the cement is cured, is to use a EXTREME drylock system.

I have to say, I love the guys at LOWES Grandville for this.

They went through so much to make sure I got the right stuff.

The paint dept guy went and found two other employees from two other departments 

so we could decide what would be the best treatment for this wall.

I was so impressed. They went out of their way to find out every issue 

 I was dealing with to make sure I did this right. 

Hopefully our collective decision pays off :)

So here is where we are at so far.

Carpet....all gone...

I still have those two little sections of tack strip to take out and let me tell you;

pulling tack strips out of cement is INSANE....That little section will probably take me an hour and a half. Not Fun!

The BAD WALL is all down.

The Ceiling is all down.

The wall has been cemented in the problem areas.

Next up....

Paint the ceiling trusses white to make it look clean and brighten the room.

Get new simple industrial lights to replace the old Cam Lights.

Dry lock the wall.

Paint the floor.

Paint the whole room.

Then finally we will be able to get to the fun part.....

Decorating..

I hope you enjoyed this portion of the makeover.

I have no IDEA how long it will take me to complete.

Your guess is as good as mine.:)

I have my air compressor

sitting in the basement when I get the urge to 

paint the ceiling.

It might be a few days seeing as I can hardly lift my arms. :)

The transformation is DONE so to see the completed makeover click HERE!!!

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!