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:

Tween bedroom makeover for my daughter, small budget big dreams~

We had a WEEK with no children last week and you may ask what we did with that glorious week being kid free.  Did we go on a kid free vacation? Stay up late and watch all the R movies we wanted, walk around the house in our underwear?  

Nope, we spent it making over both of their rooms.  Let me back up a little, I decided to make over their rooms and my husband loving refers to his role as the hired help.......  We had around $300 to spend on the makeover, money that I had saved up for a rainy day.

My daughter's room is the smallest room in the house with no storage and a very small closest. She is quick to point that out every time, MORE than anything, she needed shelves for her lovely keepsakes and I thought since she is a tween now that a nice budget friendly update would be a wonderful surprise.

These next three pictures are the BEFORE pictures:

Room size: 12x11
(Click on any picture to make larger)
 

As you can see she loves yellow, and pink and pink pigs...

Look at all that empty wall space!

I let her pick out a new color for her accent wall.  She picked Valspar "Reflecting Rose" in semi gloss (Signature color in the blue can)  When did paint get so high? $32.98

Getting the room emptied and prepped:

Note the chest of drawers in the corner it took up a lot of space in her room so we switched it with her brother's chest of drawers.  Amazing what a can of spray paint and some new knobs will do for a piece of furniture.

 First coat of paint is going on the wall. 

 4 coats later my OCD is finally happy with the nice even color.

 Shelves go up next.  My husband was going to make the shelves himself but when we priced the materials vs. the premade (solid wood), already painted shelves that Lowe's sells.  The cost was better just to buy them already made in a kit that included all the hardware needed.  Plus it saved us valuable time not having to make them. SOLD!
Shelves were $18.00 each

The "S" artwork was made by our daughter two years ago.

Here is the completed room!

New mirror with hardware to hang over her closet door: $14.98

We recycled her old mirror into her brother's room.

Link to mirror on Lowe"s Website:

Pink Mirror

This is a picture of her desk that I up-cycled for her a few years back: 

Take a look here to see the desk transformation.

Desk chair up-cycle: HERE

Awards and treasures hung on the wall.

 This is the chest of drawers that was in our son's room. So not girlie in any way or form but you have to look past what is in front of you and visualize the possibility of what it can become.  We had no budget for a new chest of drawers for her and we had a perfectly good one that just needed a makeover. 

The "new" chest of drawers!  
Amazing what paint can do to to change the look of furniture.
It took 6 cans of spray paint, but there are no paint brush streaks, worth it!

The knobs came from Hobby Lobby. 

 They were 50% off last week, we got so lucky.  Seriously NEVER buy anything at regular price at Hobby Lobby that whole store rotates sale prices on everything.
We had gone to Lowe's and priced knobs (I was not at all impressed with their selection of girlie looking knobs) and they ranged in price from $3 to $6.  At Hobby Lobby they have a huge selection and the 50% off price made me squeal with delight. 

My husband was thinking we would have to spend around $75 to $100 for knobs.
W.H.A.T.??? Not me, I knew I could score some beauties for less.  

8 pink knobs and two glorious metal butterfly knobs were $25 total.

Recycle/upcycled lamps:
I really wanted to get new lamps for her because her room is so dark but there was no money in the budget for them so I grabbed my trusty black satin spray paint and headed outside.

  The wood base was originally white and I had added white eyelash trim around the bottom edge of the shade (it peeled right off thank goodness), they had been that way since she was a baby.  

I bought new Hot Pink trim at Joann's used a 40% off coupon and I had the black ribbon and fabric flower already in my stash.  A little hot glue work and she had two new lamps.  I also realized she had 40 watt bulbs in them and they could take a 60 watt bulb.  Hello solved the low light situation! 

The box under her lamp is a box chocolates came in (sadly all the chocolates are gone) and I saved it because it was such a sturdy box.
I mod podged  Micheal Miller's Eiffel Tower fabric on to it and added some ribbon.  Cost $0.00

All supplies were in my stash.

Pink and White chevron rug was purchased at Lowe's for $29.99. It is 4x6'

They are rolled up in a big box on the rug aisle.

New curtains came from Target:
 They are actually fabric shower curtains.  I bought them on clearance three years ago after Valentines for 90% off.  I paid around $1.50 for each.  I just saved them because I knew there would come a day I would update her room.  You can't beat $3.00 for two curtain panels.  I couldn't even buy the fabric for that.

Reused existing butterfly pull backs.

Two old frames we had, peg board left over from my husband's workshop, pink spray paint from our stash and some chicken wire from Lowe's.   

Chicken wire was $12.00 for a roll, which I intend to use to make a few more earring frames to sell and recoup my money.

Metal hooks: $16.00 at Lowe's

Seeing her face was just priceless, she was so excited all she could do was cry.  She didn't even want to touch anything because she said her room was so beautiful!

Total out of pocket was $250.00 for the room makeover.
Making a 10 year old girl speechless..............PRICELESS! <3

Parties I am linked to: 

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Funky Junk DIY Party

 Up next is the bedroom make over for my son.