At this time, still didn't have the vision for the room. Then, I found this painting online on sale. I had fallen in love with it years ago at DandyLions but I wasn't married at the time. :)
I finally started having the vision to redo the master bedroom! Now, we needed a new bed. All we had was a queen frame with boxed springs & mattress. Wanted a platform bed but they were ridiculously high priced! Started pinning platform beds trying to find one that Joey could make. :) He's LOOOOVING married life & the Honey Do Projects I give him. ;) A dear friend of ours, Brittany, follows me on Pinterest and saw all the platform beds I was pinning. Her hubby, Chris, LOVES woodwork. He had some extra lumber lying around & called Joey over to help build our bed! He even did research on the best way to make the bed! Joey & Chris did manly stuff in the garage while Brittany & I did girl stuff inside :) Next thing we know, Chris texted Joey and said the bed was finished! Joey picked it up & brought it home! One afternoon when Joey wasn't home, I surprised him by moving everything out & putting the new bed together so he wouldn't have to. :)
One of Joey's coworkers a had just replaced all the windows in her home & she was selling the old farmhouse type windows! PERFECT for a headboard! At this point, I really had the vision to get the bedroom finished!
I called on my good friend Alicia, who is a pro at decorating. Her house looks like something out of Pottery Barn catalog! Showed her the two wall hanging and asked for advice! She suggested denim curtains and a yellow that was in the marriage painting for the wall color. Genius! So off I went in search for denim curtains. Yah...those don't exist. Looked online, in Target, WalMart, Bed Bath & Beyond without luck. Pretty much put the bedroom project on hold until I could find the perfect curtains! Finally found some at Old Time Pottery that were the closest thing to what I was looking for! And for a fraction of the cost! Got 4 curtains for less than the cost of 1 curtain anywhere else! The bedroom project was back on!!!
We went to Home Depot, grabbed a gazillion paint chips to pick the wall color out! This is what we ended up with.
The blue was a close match to the curtains. The yellow & green matched the Marriage painting perfectly! The green was going on our bedside tables that we had purchased at thrift stores a year or so ago.
We received this B as part of a wedding gift. I'm pretty sure we can thank the Lib's for it! :) And I found these at the Habitat Restore a while back and I'll finish them real cute.
Walking through WalMart, we found a quilt that was super close to what I had been searching for! So excited! I didn't want a modern bedroom. Wanted something vintage looking & this was perfect!
Ran into some dear friends of ours at WalMart & they suggested we take before pics. I had already taken down the old curtains & wall art but this was what the bedroom looked like the day we started our project!
Yes. I lived in a white bedroom for 7 years. All I needed was padded walls! ;)
Here's Joey patching the walls. :) He's such a great handyman!
This is the semi finished bedroom!
Now for painting the trim, putting up the headboard, new curtain rods, wood blinds & painting the bedside tables! Phew!
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