Showing posts with label master bedroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label master bedroom. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Christmas House Tour

With Christmas less than 2 weeks away, our tree is lit and decorated, the presents are wrapped, and we are ready to start celebrating!

One of my favorite aspects of decorating is finding inexpensive ways to make our house look beautiful, so many of the items you see here were thrifted or from the Target dollar section.


 

I found a picture of an entryway bench that I loved, and I showed it to Matt! He built this adorable, sturdy bench in a few hours, and I stained and painted it (so that I could be somewhat helpful in this process!). It's so convenient being married to someone who's handy in the garage!


Now we come to our living and dining room area.




Presents wrapped and under the tree. This yea, we are only buying our kids a few presents each. It saves us time, money, stress, and wrapping paper! We've been reading through the Little House series, and I love how simple their Christmas celebration is. It's definitely inspiring.




View from our kitchen, into our dining room. One of these days, we may hang something on our walls!


Our master bedroom.






And lastly, our stairs. One rainy, dreary afternoon, while the kids were sleeping, I brought together a bunch of Christmas elements we had elsewhere around our house, and decorated our stairs. I had the stairs back to their usual function by the time the kids were awake!


I hope you enjoyed our Christmas house tour!

Merry Christmas!!


Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Our Master Bedroom Update

Now that we've been in our house for a year, it was time to update our master bedroom! A few years ago, I was very "into" blue and dark brown, and thus our bedroom looked like this...




As we worked in the other rooms of our house, making them modern and fresh-looking, I decided I wanted a completely new look for our bedroom. 

Bright. Clean. Lots of white and light gray. Flowers. I wanted our bedroom to be a refreshing place for Matt and me to retreat to at the end of each day!

We bought the comforter set first, a couple months ago, and that gave us the inspiration for how the rest of the room came together. 

Here is what our room looks like now!




Much of the changes you see here are because of paint. My sister Hannah was an angel and helped me for hours as we transformed this room from blue to white. 

We also painted the dressers (yes, these are the same dressers!), chair, headboard, and lamp base. Paint works magic on furniture that needs some updating! 







Source List for Master Bedroom:
Wall color: Valspar Ultra White
Furniture color: Valspar Polar Star 
Chair: Valspar spraypaint white
Headboard and lamp base color: Valspar spraypaint glossy gray
Bedding: Target
Extra pillows: TJ Maxx
Headboard: found on an online yard sale group
Dressers: handed down from my aunt and uncle
Dresser knobs: Lowe's
Curtains and curtain rods: Target
Chair: Goodwill
Chair cushion: Target
Sign: birthday gift from my sister (purchased from My Paper Nest)
Small potted plant: Michael's
Wire basket: Target
Lamp base: yard sale
Lampshade: Walmart
Alarm clock: Walmart
Hydrangea: Michael's
Mirror: handed down from my sister






For those interested in the cost breakdown of this bedroom update, here you go!

Primer + paint: $116
Bedding: $80
Pillows: $20
Headboard: $40
Dressers: $0
Dresser knobs: $55
Curtains and curtain rods: $109
Chair: $2
Chair cushion: $10
Sign: $0
Small potted plant: $5
Wire basket: $3
Lamp base: $5
Lamp shade: $8
Alarm clock: $15
Hydrangea: $20
Mirror: $0

Total cost: $488

Have a great weekend!