Bedroom Make Over

You're probably wondering why our bed is in the middle of our living room in this picture. A few days ago I decided it was time to finally paint our bed and bedside table to match the room's new color scheme, so this is where our bed ended up.

It was actually kind of fun and exciting because we could watch movies in bed at night, which is always a treat for us since we don't have a TV in our bedroom. 

Here is what our bedroom was left looking like, and here is how our bed looks painted black.

This is what the room looked like before with the bed and bedside table painted blue and with the old pillows and comforter.

And here it is now. As you can see the bed and bedside table are now black, I moved "the kiss" inspired painting to the wall on the right, and there are new pillows. The front grey and white pillow I bought from Target on sale last year, the two yellow pillows with shell buttons were a wedding gift that used to be in the living room, and the two grey pillows behind those I made.

Here's a better picture of the bedside table.

Here's what the other side of the room looked like before.

And after. You can hear more about how I made the curtains here, the picture frame window shutter here, the "A" here, and if you'd like to buy the same yellow pillow you can purchase it here.

The window before

And after. I don't have a good shot of this angle after I painted the bed and hung the pictures on the shutter so ignore the blue bedpost and picture frames on the dresser.

I'm almost done with the room, there are just a few more things I'd like to do before I'm officially finished with it.

• Make new lamp shades that are barrel shapped with a green pattern on them to tie in with the green on the dresser
• Add another grey stripe to the bottom of the curtains so they aren't high waters
• Add some length onto the bed-skirt so that it hides all of the under bed storage better

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Painted Shutter with Picture Frames

My mother in law had this hiding away in their barn (along with our wonderful new dresser) not being used and said I could have it. I was very excited because I love decorating with shutters and I saw a picture on pinterest where someone had hung picture frames from their shutter and I'd been wanting to do this ever since.  Here is the shutter, fresh out of the barn still dressed for christmas and carrying lots of dust and dirt.

The wall on the right is the place I had in mind to hang the shutter.

 I cleaned it off and laid it down on an old sheet that I use to paint with (I would not recommend doing this if you care a lot about the rug underneath, there were a few paint leaks when I lifted the sheet).

Using my Valspar gloss black paint, left over from another furniture painting project, and my sponge brush I proceeded to paint the shutter one slat at a time. 

An hour or so later I was finished painting the top side, but still needed to paint the sides. I rigged up a nice little stand using from things around my design room (rolls of ribbon) so that I was able to paint the shutter sides without painting the sheet too. I left the back of the shutter unpainted since no one would be seeing that side anyway.

 After letting the shutter dry over night it was time to hang my picture frames on it by tying wire through the hangers on the back of the frames and the shutter slats. Here's the finished project. The black and white pictures are our parents when they were younger and the picture in the middle is of us on our wedding day. I'm thinking about changing that out to a black and white picture too. I'd also like to get a fun new knob to replace the silver one.

And here it is zoomed out a bit.

What do you think?

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My New Dresser's Home

We finally got the new dresser into the house and now that I can see it with the wall collage behind it and the table top decorations I kind of like how it looks a little rustic and unfinished, so I have decided to leave it unpainted for the time being. Once I get bored with it how it is I'll paint it.

Here is how it looked before

And here is how it looks now. As you can see I added a few new things to sit on the dresser and I added an "A" to the part of the wall collage that used to be covered by the lamp shade.