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I decided to show you bits and pieces of my craft room makeover rather than the whole thing at once.  I posted last week about a storage solution.  If you missed it you can see it here.   Seeing the progress is making me soooo happy.  Vintage 1950’s is the look I’m going for; I think I would have loved to have lived during that period of time.   Think “I Love Lucy” or “Happy Days”.  My mother tells me that when they went shopping in the 50’s they wore their dresses, gloves, and hats.  It was a time to dress up for.  Can you imagine seeing that now?  She said that it was a less hurried time where visiting on the front porch with your neighbors was the norm in the evenings.  Yes, I think I would have loved living then.

Anyway, I wanted this room to have some color and to be an inspiring room to create.  I really didn’t want to just paint the room I wanted something a little different.  So, I took this:

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