Tyler and I recently did something a little crazy, at least some of our family thought so. We sold our 3 year old Nebraska Furniture Mart bedroom set to redo our room. We bought the set when we lived in a larger duplex in Lawrence and it fit well there but was just a little too big for the bedroom in our house. It fit but made the room seem small. So we sold it...for dirt cheap.
We then set out to find our new bedroom. The almost finished product is just what we wanted, fits our style perfectly and cost less then just the bed in our old set. Here's some pics of the almost finished product.
Please note that we still have some cosmetic stuff to do like new curtains and stuff on the walls.
We found our dressers first. Which was a relief because we were sleeping with our mattress on the floor and our clothes all over it as well because we sold our set so fast. Sparks flea market, which I've told you about before had some fantastic options.
Tyler's dresser had the "manly" touch he wanted. He's always said that our bedroom was sort of my thing. He helps me with pretty much all decorating but our bedroom is just a little more girly then other rooms. This dresser was a whole $65 and we just stripped it and added a coat of wax.
My dresser was $45 and is actually a buffet. We pulled the color from our duvet and is a little more pink then I think Tyler thought it would be but it's perfect. And it's mine so that's all that matters.
Got the idea off of pinterest of course. Paintable wallpaper (this does exist). This dresser took a nap and evening to finish.
Next was a side table for me. I really wanted to stack suitcases so I went searching in the west bottoms one weekend and found them all. I need to get one more, probably red, to finish it off. Once we got rails for the bed it was just a tad too short.
Now we just needed to find our perfect bed. We looked at Sparks and found plenty of iron ones we liked but they were all full beds and Tyler and I did that for our first year of marriage and refuse to go back to sleeping butt to butt. So then we thought we'd look for a mantle. We found one in the West Bottoms that was absolutely perfect and only $115. Pulling another idea from pinterest, we decided to mount it on the wall and make a tufted piece for the opening. Here was the process...
First, I painted the mantle white and put an antique glaze on top of that. Didn't get pictures of that process, sorry. Next we started the tufted part. This was a bit intimidating as neither of us have done a whole lot of upholstery and never tufted anything. We started using peg board so we wouldn't have to drill holes into the back. I then mapped out the pattern I wanted for the buttons.
The button kit I got was horrible and I had to modify how I did those but oh well, I've learned from this experience.
I cut the same pattern out of 2 inch foam. This was probably one of the more expensive parts of the project. Foam is pricey and I don't know why but we got ours at Joann's for 50% off. Score.
Now we just had to attach the foam to the board and start tufting. I used a blog to help with this part.
Once that was finished we just attached the tufted portion to the mantle and hung it on the wall...
So, at first glance, I was kinda worried. I thought it might have been just a bit too big but it's growing on me. It looks large but sits flat against the wall so it's not taking up any room. Our room still feels bigger after getting rid of our old bed.
It's just what we wanted. I'll make sure to take a picture when the whole room is finished!!
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