Mastering the Decor.....continued

Well, as I mentioned in my previous post, the process of "Mastering the Decor" has taken 9 years.  I knew that this process wouldn't be complete in the blink of an eye. 

I had updated a nightstand for my husband's side of the bed and after a week, we decided that it wasn't the right piece.  It just wasn't a fit.  The color was off.  Once we added the tall headboard the piece looked dwarfed. 

We had a single drawer filing cabinet and several choices of spray paint from the garage.  We decided on the leaf green color.

 

The filing cabinet/nightstand also hides our computer cables, etc. for our wireless system.  I still need to devise a way to hide the cables.  In time.

I wanted to upgrade the bedside lamps that we have and was able to do wonders for very little money.  In fact, I only spent $5 on these.  I found a remnant of coordinating fabric that covered both shades and left me enough to make a throw pillow. 

 

Now on to some art work.  A few pieces of leftover fence posts, cut and glued together and a little paint.

 

 

A few new throw pillows and we are on the way to a completed bedroom. 

 

 

 

Since we were updating the Master, we decided to update the en suite as well. 

 

And the mastering of the decor continues.  It will still take a little more time.

 

 

Mastering the Decor

We have lived in our home for nearly 9 years and although we have attempted to decorate our Master Bedroom, we have run aground time and time again. Shortly after we moved in, I painted the walls in a faux finish, and a few months later, I found a coverlet for the bed and so on. We don't have a bedroom furniture suite and never have. We have the dresser that my husband has had since his childhood, two nightstands I picked up for a little bit of nothing years ago and that is about it.

I have ALWAYS wanted a nice, quite, comforting room to call our Master Bedroom. Main issue - besides money - is trying to determine our style. I would find something that I liked, but my husband wouldn't like or I wanted it to have a bit more character than just a manufactured piece. Yes, I am well aware that I am crazy picky!

So, I decided that I would need to create items for this nice, quite, comforting room. Looking over our budget, we decided that we could spend about $20. Keep in mind, I have a slew of items on hand that can either be re-fashioned or re-purposed.

First, a headboard. We just replaced a fence panel in our backyard fence and decided to use the panels to make a headboard. This solved two issues; 1) a cheap - FREE - headboard, 2) kept the fence out of the landfill. We even re-used the nails to keep with the re-purposed look. We sanded the panels slightly just to knock off some of the roughness of the aged and wheathered wood. 

Built and ready to be sanded

Sanded and ready to be installed

Installed and being enjoyed!

 

As I mentioned before, this process has taken nearly 9 years, so I'm really not in a hurry to make this happen.  But, I will work on it every chance I get.  Up next, nightstands....

 

My side was easy.  We had a side table that was given to us by Craig's Great Aunt.  With a few pieces of wall art, made by both my sister and my Great Grandmother, my side is complete.

 

 

My husband's nightstand took a little more work.  I used one of the nightstands we had prior to this process and a little steel blue and brown paint from the garage.  With a bit of creativity and patience, we have something he likes and again, NO MONEY WAS SPENT!

 

 

This is still a work in progress and as we add more, I will update.  Loving the process of working with my husband on what we want and how we can do it with what we have.