Redoing my son's bedroom, small budget big dreams

Finally a few minutes to post my son's room we made over the same week as my daughter's room from this post:
 Tween Room Makeover

It really doesn't take that much to update a room, most people start looking at the cost of redoing a room and the price goes sky high BUT that doesn't have to happen.  A can of paint can do a world of good to update a room.  Switching around furniture in your house, even just rearranging a room and cleaning out the clutter can give a room a whole new fresh look! my husband and I have spent this summer redoing, updating and cleaning/organizing almost our complete home with very little money.

Crazy little 7 year old boy's bedroom before:

This is where we started, a mix match of cowboy ( his baby room left overs) to CARS, dinosaur rug, hot wheets and "ART" taped to the wall.

He is my little artist and LOVES putting his work on display.

He wanted an orange wall (bright orange, then he wanted a green wall and then my husband suggested a camo wall, Oh MY NO!!!  Then a dear friend said why not a stripe of orange on a green wall.  Ok I can do that.  I let my sweet crazy boy pick his colors.  

Valspar's Leprechaun Green

&

Valspar Autumn Gala (Orange)

Kudos to my husband for taping off the wall and the perfectly straight stripe line, I would have never been able to pull that straight line off.

Two coats of green and we are ready for the orange

1 coat of orange..........

 2 coats of orange.........

 3,4,5 coats of orange. DONE!!  

 I painted the stripe freehand I was so afraid if I used the blue painters tape on the green it would #1 pull off the fresh green paint (I would cry) and #2 the orange would bleed through (and I would cry some more).

  I used a 1" angled brush for the orange and a steady hand.

!!!!!!PINK!!!!!!

Then we took a break and started on our daughter's wall, very much a change of scenery from green and orange! 

  Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programing

Accent wall is finished and the soccer curtains are made with so cute yellow and white chevron trim.  Soccer fabric was purchased at Joann's Fabrics $6.99 a yard, Yellow and white chevron from Hobby Lobby $8.99 a yard.

The wall decal is from a lady on Etsy, This is one of my favorite things about his new big boy room I love the personal touch.

 Here is the finished room!!!

 

I framed both of his soccer jerseys.

Soccer wall with new shelf for two trophies and space for more & his very first soccer cleats.

The large frame above his bed is his new art display

My husband used scrap wood he had to build a simple frame, painted it and ran wire across it in three even rows and then I added metal desk clips for hanging all his art work.

The chest we switched from his sister's room, looks great in his room.

 

 One new wall makes all the difference!

Walking into his big boy room!

"J" pillow I made to match his new curtains.

Our cost:

 Lowe's paint (a gallon and a quart) $45.00

Name decal from Etsy  $12.99

Black floating shelf $15.00

2 new orange pillows from Ross $12.99

Fabric for his two curtains & the "J"accent pillow $15.00

(Zero Cost)

We recycled or made ourselves with supplies we already had:

4 black frames for his soccer pictures

black spray paint

2 large black metal frames for the jerseys

1 pillow form

Scrap wood for the Art Display

Wire and clips for the Art display

Large wood chest from our daughter's room

Silver frame & Joshua bible verse

FROM this to-------

To this <3

 *I was not compensated for any of the materials used in the post.

Parties I am linked to:

UP next our very, very dark and dated kitchen.  

Thirteen years I have wanted to paint these cabinets and I finally did................  

Will post Kitchen update this weekend!

Here is a sneak peek:

Master Bedroom (Phase 2)

Pre NEW paint and a empty room

The antique armoire stayed in the room. 

With no room for a king size bed frame with a foot board, we brainstormed and came up with creating a custom headboard that could be bolted to the metal mattress frame.

I designed the king size headboard and my husband cut it out of thick plywood.  We had the foam custom cut at a local upholsterer company.  You would be surprised how cheap having this done is.  I priced foam at Joanns and Hancock and I would have spent double and also would have had to piece two smaller pieces of foam together.   All I did was bring them the paper pattern I had made for my husband to cut the plywood out and 2 days later I had my custom cut foam!!!

Add a little spray adhesive and you got yourself a custom headboard!

I love, love, love the wall color!!

Our furniture from Pier One:

We have looked and looked for furniture that would be size appropriate for our room.  The bedroom is 12x14.  And with a king size bed smack dab in the middle there isn't much room for much more furniture.  We needed something petite with lots of drawers.  The BIGGEST deciding factor (our budget) I have been saving up money for a year to buy our furniture but have you LOOKED at the prices of bedroom furniture lately?  Craziness I tell you, why do they need to charge so much, what is the markup, like 500%.  Any way I am a bargain shopper, we checked out thrift stores and a few high end furniture stores but I always kept coming back to Pier One, they really have nice pieces THAT are affordable too.  And if you visit the store on a regular bases you will find that everything goes on sale eventually. and they keep marking down the price every week or so.  Be patient the price will go down, also have them check inventory on the pieces your are interested in.  If inventory is getting low and you are in LOVE with the item go ahead and get it.

We got a steal on this beautiful dresser, it also has a mirror we put on later.  

Two night stands: Finally we have our own side tables!!

Antique milk glass lamps with marble bases : FREE  

My mom and I rewired them and I bought new plain white fabric shades at Lowe's Home Improvement store.  These lamps have been sitting at work collecting dust, unused, for about 7 years but I just knew I would find a perfect home for them one day. 

Shades were $6.99 each.

In the middle of all the Master Bedroom redo, my husband finally got little peeps antique bed refinished.  So good by to the convertible baby bed he has called home for his first 5 years and hello.............----->

BIG BOY BED!!!!

This beautiful bed is actually one half of a bunk bed set, you can see where the other half is HERE!

You can check out Master Bedroom Phase1 HERE!

 Next up: Phase 3 

(THE BIG reveal)

~After I clean the room and make it look pretty again~

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