Master Bedroom Update

At the end of the day, you want to love getting home and seeking that refuge from the craziness of life in your bedroom.  But I have to say, I wasn’t loving how our bedroom was feeling.  It needed attention, it needed a boost of some sort.

Our bedroom, which isn’t large, was feeling blah to me.  It felt dark and boring and just not right.  There’s some major projects I’d like to do but pulling down ceiling tiles and installing shiplap isn’t quite within my abilities or present budget.  I want to paint the built-ins, too, just to lighten them up but haven’t managed to convince everyone of that one yet 😉 And we have flooring to put down, but again, not something I can tackle myself.  So, the question become, ‘What can I do to change how this room feels?’

Step one was switch out the headboard!  Ugh! We had the same headboard the whole time we were married, Michael had bought it before we started dating even….and the salesman told him he’d never have to buy another headboard!!!  Clearly he didn’t know Michael was going to end up with an interior decorator for a wife!!!  So out went the scrolly number we had and in came an old panel headboard from Phillips and Chestnut.  Muuuuuuch better!

I had gotten a new bedspread { does that make me sound old?? } when we first moved in and I loved it for a long time.  But I was getting tired of it and after snuggling the girls under their duvet covers, the handsome Mr. Byrne and I decided we wanted one, too.  A new plaid duvet from IKEA certainly made the room feel fresher, too.  And cozier!

But it was still not 100% to where I wanted it, it felt dark and drab.  It needed some life, a punch, a pop of something – anything to give it a kick.  I debated painting the walls white, the floor a colour….then I decided it needed some yellow!!!  But – would I repaint my nightstand yellow? Maybe I would paint the headboard yellow….how was I going to bring in the yellow?

A trip to Value Village to check on the basket situation for the ever-growing basket wall was the game changer.  I found the cutest retro night stand and paid just over $10 for it!!  I swung into the local hardware store on my way home to grab some spray paint, I was keen to get started.  I suck at prep work – I may have mentioned that – so I did none and started the makeover of that little dresser – how could it go wrong….right?

Ugh!  The paint did a weird thing in a few spots so that delayed progress.  I sanded it out and tried to light coats…and it worked, thankfully! So I drug it upstairs and put my favourite vintage lamp on it { and sorted through the books and magazines that piled up } and called it good.  And it really helped the room – it feel brighter and fresher and way more punchy.  Mission accomplished!

Then of course I tidied some things, dusted others things and took some pictures just to share with you! Because I know you were concerned about how blah my room was, too, right?  I need a bedskirt – I’m thinking a simple white one will hide the bed frame and flooring boxes under there….

I still love my big huge dresser, you can read about that makeover HERE.  I’m still very happy I painted it!  And it’s topped with some jewelery and other treasures that I like to see everyday.

 

Michael uses the built-ins for dressers and has some cute little treasures that the girls gifted him, like this sweet little turtle.  And I decided he probably deserves a lamp of his own so this bright yellow little number is prefect to tuck in the eaves.

You know how sometimes you miss the obvious even though it is right there in front of you the whole time?  My flower crown from Oh Dina! was hanging here the whole time and it took forever for it to dawn on me that our room needed yellow…sheesh…. And this painting has a neat story { I love to tell the stories behind the pieces I use in my home – don’t you? }  This painting lived in this house when I was a teen.  Yep, it belonged to the family who lived here when I was a young teenager and they had gifted it to me somewhere along the road.  And it’s come full circle, back to living here.  I have no idea who the artist is or anything but it looks like it belongs here, eh?

I think that the grainy quality of these pictures help my case, we have north exposure so it just isn’t a bright rooom, even with the huge window!  It definitely needed a refresher and I’m happy with how it is coming along.  I’ll have to finish off the one gallery wall and find a bedskirt and maybe, just maybe, convince my father-in-law to help me lay the floor!  And with a few more pops of yellow, I think we’ll call it good!  Until I want that shiplap ceiling bad enough….

To be continued,

Lori