When we moved in, our room looked like this:
In addition to our bed, Brian's armoire (not pictured), our rug and our nightstands, we used my old white dresser, and our old living room accent chair to accessorize/fill the room. It just so happened that the original owners drapes sort of worked in our room, so we kept them for a short while until I found others online.
I struggled with what I wanted with this room because the walls were off-white, the the trim throughout was an ugly peach color, the carpet is neutral, and our bedding was white. We desperately needed color and I didn't know how or where to bring it in. Now, almost a year later, we've completely updated our room.
Over Christmas, my parents and sister very generously helped us get things started by giving us this beautiful dresser and mirror for our bedroom.
Once we had that piece, and it started to feel more like an adult bedroom, I was inpsired to keep going. We moved our rug into Anna's bedroom to complete the nursery and suddenly, I felt like I had a clean slate with the old curtains, and green patterned rug out of the room. I was planning on keeping our white bedding and adding with paint and pillows, but I just couldn't find pieces with prints or colors that coordinated. I tried adding color with curtains, that were a grey/taupe, but that bombed. I put them up on the tag sale site, and in minutes, they were sold!
I quickly turned around and used the cash to buy new light colored stripped curtains from Pier 1, that I love. The lighter color and simple design, allowed me to bring in patterns or colors in other ways. We'd only had our white Pottery Barn duvet for 4 years, and although I loved it, it was missing two buttons and was so impractical with a dog. Brian wasn't wild about buying all new bedding, but now that the room is done, I think he's happy with it ;)
The icing on the cake was the Angie's List deal we scored, to have our bedroom painted. I'm all about a good deal :) We'd agreed our bedroom would be the last to be painted, but the deal was so good to pass on, so we went for it. In one day, they painted the walls and the trim and brought the room totally up to date. We picked a very neutral wall color, that's subtle and soft, and the white trim just pops.
Between the cash we got for the sale of the original curtains, and the floral accent chair, plus the PB bedding on sale and the Angies List deal on painting - we've updated our bedroom for very little money! So Brian is happy because the update didn't break the bank, and I'm psyched because I am totally in love with our bedroom! I literally smile when I walk in there and I love going to bed :)
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