Room tour

Yay!! I have finally decided to redo the carpeting and walls in my bedroom. In this post I will share photos of my room how it used to be; later I will follow up with updated photos.

A little bit of history...
My mom grew up in the house our family is currently living in. My mom's father built the house about 45 years ago. When we bought it ten years ago, very few things were "updated". Everything was very nice, but it surly wasn't up to date. The linoleum in the main entry and the main floor hallways, the carpet in the kitchen, the never ending wall paper, and the wood paneling in the basement all proved that. We have done many things to improve the aesthetic of the house. We removed the wallpaper, linoleum, and carpeting in the kitchen from the pain floor. We've painted the paneling in the basement, and the main floor hall that lead to upstairs.
When you walk up the stairs to the second level, there are four bedrooms and two full bathrooms. all the rooms are actually really nice, with at least 2 closets. My room is the one that has been most recently updated. New carpet, clutter free, and new paint on the walls and desk.
Before I redid everything, it wasn't a horrible room. Actually, since I put so much time into it, It looked pretty great. But now I'm even happier with it.



This is a before picture... looking back on it, I can't believe how small the room feels. In this picture, you can see the desk (which was garbage picked, it only had that spot on the top), the bed (which I received through inheritance), my little feature frame wall, and my "art" above the bed (which was made out of a dress). So, as I mentioned, the desk was a garbage treasure! A house down the street from me had an estate sale, and I walked through the house and didn't find anything that I felt like I needed. But, come the next garbage day, this beautiful desk was on the side of the road. The hardware was actually what grabbed my attention, but the desk ended up being great, since I had just sold my old one.

Gotta love auto focus, which thought I was taking a picture of the tree through the window... But you get the idea. All these frames (plus more) were "rescued" from thrift stores, attics, and estate sales. The top one, I found in the attic of our shed at our vacation home. Just sanded it and stained that one. The green one under that was a thrift treasure, I'm pretty sure I paid 25 cents for that along with the one next to it. The big one at the bottom was 75 cents from a thrift store, and the white-ish one was also from the shed attic. The things inside of the frames are all random things I found around my room. I discovered I had a lot of R's so I hung those up, the stick frame, is getting more sticks eventually, and the bottom right frame will have some kind of "native American" feeling. I'm going to hang feathers and shells and other old things. The top frame just had a dollar store sticker in it that said, "with God all things are possible." That actually isn't hanging there anymore because it refused to stick, so it was replaced by one that says, "in a world where you can be anything, be yourself"

Here's another of my frames. I had actually painted this one an aqua blue color, but I wasn't happy with how it looked so I just repainted right over the blue. Then I made this chalk board! (link to how I made it will eventually be here...)

Thank you for averting your eyes from the super ghetto curtain-hanging skills. The window pane chalk/magnet board was a thrift store treasure. And I am literally so proud to say I got it for less than one dollar! The deals are out there if you're willing to look around and stalk thrift store inventories.

This chair was picked up on the side of the road, it does have a crack in the seat, but I didn't want to touch it, because I really liked the way it looked. Eventually, I will do something to it, but for now I like it how it is. The beautiful globe was handed down form my great grandfather.

And then my never-ending pile of old books, which just add so much charm. Each of them comes with a story, not just the one written on the pages, but also of how I got them.