The Master Bedroom Redo (Phase 1)

I am so excited to share about our grown up master bedroom we finally have after almost 14 years of marriage.  I have wanted to redo our bedroom and get real furniture for oh about 12 year now but something else always seemed to need the money I saved up more.  So my dreams of a new bedroom got put on hold time after time, which was ok to me because the money I saved up always went to something more important.  NOT this time, this time I was able to design, paint and reorganize the entire bedroom and ALL on a very strict budget. (Dave Ramsey would be so proud)

We refinished the floors in all the house over the years and this was the first room we ripped the carpet out of.  My husband sanded them and I put 4 coats of poly on them with a 4 inch brush.  Very time consuming but worth the work.  

A little back story:  This was a rental house for years before it was finally put on the market to sell.  Imagine, off white walls everywhere & beige carpets throughout, very B.O.R.I.N.G.  This house had been neglected for way to many years and needed a lot of love!

Before pictures aka HOT MESS:
It doesn't always look this messy, we were in clean out stage at this point.   For my husband's Father's Day gift this year, I let him pick out a brand new Posturepedic Mattress.   Paying that baby off for the next few months........
(Something he has been begging for, for years)   
So that was the beginning....New Bed, NEW ROOM!!!!!

My kid dresser and chest a drawers.  While they are very cool and over 100 years old; every time I walked into the bedroom I always felt like a kid NOT someone fixing to celebrate 14 years of marriage.

The curtains I have loved (my Mom made them for Dave's and my very first apartment) But I was ready for a change and longer curtains.

My husband and I somewhat compromised on "brown"  He wanted baby poop brown, you know the brown that has yellow in it!  NO NO NO, I wanted the brown with gray tones in it.  The color swatch picture is really hard to show the true colors.  But we went with the lightest brown on the far right.. 

It is Valspar Signature Series: Dust Bunny

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So that was the beginning of the redo this Summer.  More to come this week, hold only your seats people, it going to be a crazy ride, including a kidney stone in the middle of painting the room.  Me NOT him!~ O.U.C.H.!!!!!!

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Happy October: Teacher Treat (Orange)

I'm back!

End of the Summer, beginning of school, welcome to Kindergarten, HELLO 3rd grade and oh my, two kids with homework.  That about sums what where and what I have been doing~

We are in week 8 of our school year and this past Friday my little peep's teacher's received little treats.

All you need:

Beautiful Oranges

Candy Corn

Clear plastic treat bags

Ribbon

Homemade tags ( I just found some vintage looking tags on the Internet and "borrowed" them.  Copy/pasted them into my photo program so I could type the names in!

The words are: : (Orange You Glad It IS Friday!)

How simple and cute is that!

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I've also been busy pinning on Pinterest.  That site is so additive~  If you would like an invite just drop me a comment with your email address and I will get on sent out to you.

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