Since it didn't end up being real wood I couldn't sand and stain it like I had originally planned. I then thought I could prime it, do a light brown coat, layer that with a dark brown coat and roughly sand it down to make it look distressed. The problem with that was it just went right down to the first base white coat again which I really didn't like. I repainted it all back to dark brown and decided just to leave it with a finished, non-roughed-up look.
It didn't quite look western to me so I came up with an idea to add stars and rope to the ends. I bought rope from ACE Hardware and I used E600 to glue it on. After I did it I really wish I would have cut all the rope pieces shorter and made them so that it didn't swirl as much toward the center where the stars are. The glue took the paint right off even before it was dry so once it was down there really was no adjusting without having to redo the whole thing.
I found the stars at an antique shop in Bend called the Iron Horse. They were all rusted over but cleaned up great. Both of the stars had tiny rods on the back (similar to a thumb tack), so I drilled holes into the crib and added glue to make them stay.
I found the stars at an antique shop in Bend called the Iron Horse. They were all rusted over but cleaned up great. Both of the stars had tiny rods on the back (similar to a thumb tack), so I drilled holes into the crib and added glue to make them stay.
I think this crib would look great with some pink bedding and I'm hoping it works out great for little Addyson Emily!
& here it is all set up with her absolutely adorable pink & cow print bedding!
