Making The Master Bedroom Beautiful
Transforming our room from this…
to this…
took us nearly a year to complete.
Why so long, you ask?
When you have a family of 5 living on one income, there’s not much room left in the budget for decor…
so we scrimped and saved to buy some of the items,
we built some of the furniture ourselves,
and we gave new life to some old items too.
All of that takes a lot of time and effort to complete,
especially when you are juggling three babies!
We started by painting the room Benjamin Moore’s Stratton Blue.
we built our own farmhouse bed and nightstands using plans from Ana White.
Read about the bed HERE and the nightstands HERE.
Up next was a new dresser to replace this old beat up hunk of junk…
We couldn’t afford to buy a new one, so I found a real beauty on Craigslist for $20.
I worked for months stripping and sanding the horrendous paint out of every tiny little nook and cranny of that thing.
Never again will I attempt to strip something so detailed!!!
But it ended up turning out really great 🙂
You can read all about it HERE.
Once we had all of the main elements in the room, then we just had to fill in all of the holes.
Some things were made or repurposed,
{You are my Sunshine art, painted frames paired with old art}
{Shells hung on the walls}
{baskets from Pier 1}
{drapes from Bed, Bath and Beyond, rod made out of long dowel, finials, and brackets from Lowe’s – read about it HERE}
{lamp shades from Ballard Designs, we already had the lamp bases, conch shell planter from Safeway}
I was hoping to tackle a much smaller room next {like a bathroom},
but somehow got lured into the Family Room…
So be sure to check out 3 Meadow Lake Cottage to follow our progress!!!
What is the name of your PB bedding? Love it!