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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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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