Painting the vintage iron beds...

Happy Saturday!

We are leaving tomorrow for Birdsong, but I thought that you might like to see how the old iron beds turned out. My husband sanded and cleaned them, and I painted them yesterday. As it turned out, the railings were worthless, so we are going to figure out some way to use the headboards and foot boards with modern mattresses, box springs and frames. No big loss, as most of the time you don't get railings anyway.

Here are a few shots of the unpainted beds...



Here is what I used on them...

And voila!

Here they are painted...

This is the detail on the twin bed.

It looks like there were several previous coats

of paint over a lot of rust.

Oh, well, I guess chippy and old is the look

we wanted!

And this is the detail on the full-sized bed...

We hope to bring up at least the larger one next week, and will attempt to buy the mattresses while we are there. I think I know what I want to do for bedding, but that will be in a future post. Next week we hope to get the laminate flooring ordered, the new baseboards purchased, painted, and installed, and the rest of the walls painted. On the next trip up we hope to get the flooring in. There is a 7-9 business day wait to get the flooring...not what we had hoped for! 

I hope that you're having a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by.