Monday, May 31, 2010 - It started out we were tired of looking at the orange walls in our bedroom. Then we decided we wanted matching bedroom furniture. I'm not much of a decorator, so I relied on Mike for MOST of what you're about to see. It really came together SO WELL and I'm impressed and thankful for his efforts and for the way the room turned out!

Here are some before pictures. This is the corner unit Mike built when we painted the room orange three or so years ago. He did a great job texturing it and putting the shelves in for the VCR and DVD player and then also had a spot for some of my pictures. He had to tear that down and do major overhaul on that wall to sand it down and make sure we could paint over it. You can't see it really, but the bed is on the opposite wall from the armoire and the windows are the opposite wall from the bathroom door.

I don't know why I took so few pictures of the "before". But here are some after we painted and before we had the furniture put in. As you can probably tell, the third picture below is where Mike took the shelf out. The picture makes the corner look pretty good. But you can still see a lot of the lines showing through even after the paint was dry. Don't worry. There's a bookshelf there now so no one will ever know. :) The last picture is me standing in the opposite corner of the room while Mike finishes up before the furniture is delivered. The kids decided to use the empty room as a track and did laps around the dog. Crazy kids.

So here it is. The finished product. Took two guys less than 15 minutes to bring the furniture in. We've found one of the bedposts is cracked and will need to be replaced. But other than that, we are very happy with the room and I have to give Mike kudos for making it all come together in a short amount of time. We put the bed on the opposite wall this time and this is the way we originally had the furniture when we moved in.

Target and Ikea were definitely our friends in this redecorate. The little window sofa is from Ikea and pretty much everything else, from the curtains to the lamps, a few of the new decorations on the dresser and even the pillows on the couch were from Target. Looks pretty good for doing this on such a small budget. The accent wall is actually a darker brown color than what it looks like in the pictures. It's really close to the big beige stripe in the comforter. I would definitely call it a creamy brown.

We're not totally done yet. Still have some paint touch ups to do in the corners and along the trim on the baseboards. Also need to put more stuff up on the walls. But I'm happy to be back in my room in the new KING SIZE bed! Life is good!

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