This past weekend we celebrated my SIL’s birthday! Happy Birthday Jenn! Jenn recently moved into the city and has a cute bedroom that was pretty much a blank slate. We decided it needed a little bit of color so part of the projects we tackled this weekend was her birthday gifts.

Like many newbie renters Jen’s bed was without a headboard of any sort. Since space is a luxury in NYC apartments I knew we needed something on the small size that didn’t take up a huge amount of space.

The perfect solution was my 3 Panel Headboard. I went out to JOANN’s and found an amazing fabric called Stone Flower.

For a full sized headboard you only need 2 yards.

DIY instructions for the project are available here.

I went through my fabric stash and found some complementary fabric for a toss pillow:

Then I went through my furniture stash aka the garage and found a cute octagon shaped nightstand and gave it some new life with two shades of purple spraypaint:

{I need to take a picture of the inside as well. We decided to have a little fun and paint the inside the same light lilac that we used on the hardware. Love.}

Lastly we needed a little bit of artwork to finish this mini re-vamp and I knew just the person to make me something. Jon!

We didn’t go matchy/matchy with the artwork, but we did play with some brights colors that we knew would work with our fabric.

{Many have emailed me asking me about Jon’s artwork. Don’t fret we are setting up an etsy shop. We currently have 25 pieces in different colors/sizes waiting to be listed. Should be up next week.}

Jenn loved her gifts and we were able to let our creative juices flow and not break the bank. Sometimes you just need to think outside of the box. Hope I gave you some good gift ideas.

I will make sure to take some new pictures of everything in the daylight once they are in place.

*Big thanks to my FIL who snapped all of these pictures for me when this bad blogger forgot to take pictures during the reveal.