And now for room #2!

Our bedroom is finished! Actually, it's been finished for awhile, it has just taken me a couple weeks to take the pictures. So to start with, here are a few before pictures. . .

And here is the finished (almost) room! I was going for a 360 degree tour. . .

So I'm sure you can tell by the pictures that our bedroom is tiny. There is room to walk around the bed, but that's about it. You're probably wondering, then, why I would choose to put a couch in the single free corner of the room. Well, I bought it for a dollar at an auction. And I just love the color and character of it. And it didn't really fit anywhere else in the house. And my husband had to break the legs off to fit it up the stairs, drag it up the stairs by himself, and then rebuild the legs. So I thought he would kill me if I said, "I don't think it really fits in here after all. . ." Really, even though the room is small, it doesn't feel cramped or crowded.

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The couch was the first killer deal. The second was the headboard that I made. For some reason, it looks kind of lumpy in the pictures. That's not really how it looks. Anyway, I've seen people make headboards on home improvement shows, so I decided to take a stab at it. Kaleif cut the plywood. I made the measurements-- I think they were something like "two inches less than four and a half feet by a little bit more than two feet." And somehow he figured that out :) So I took my piece of plywood, spread cluster stuffing over the top of it, then pulled the fabric tight and stapled it around the edges. I also made the buttons. . . out of a quarter, some stuffing, the headboard fabric, and super glue. The project was SUPER easy. I think it took me about a half-hour.

The third killer deal were the pictures that hang above the dollar couch. I took these pictures of the floors in Sadie's room before I painted them, bought $2 frames at Ikea, and cut the mats with my trusty mat-cutting kit!

So the room is small and pretty simple, but I LOVE it! Again, I'm missing the curtains. . . still looking :)

FINALLY!

So we FINALLY have a room completely finished!!! Ok, so its actually not completely done, but it's close enough to show you. We started this project the day we moved in our house about six weeks ago. I guess I was excited for Sadie to have her own room (a little late, I know) so I wanted to finish her's first.

Here are a few BEFORE pictures:

Looks pretty icky, doesn't it? It was. Sadie was even ready to get rid of that stinky carpet :)


So after some hard work and many weeks, Sadie's room is finally (almost) finished!

Drum roll please. . . .

Are you ready???





Here it is!

So I just need to put the curtains up (I seriously can't find them anywhere! Packed somewhere. . . ) and find knobs for the dresser.

I have to let you all know. . . we were very thrifty in finishing Sadie's room. I pride myself in saving a few bucks (or deal-slashing as Bethany and I call it!)

1. We cleaned the walls, woodwork, and floors and gave them a new coat of paint! My handy husband installed the wainscotting.

2. I purchased all of the cream colored frames at an auction (two dollars for the four hanging in Sadie's room, plus extras I haven't used yet!), pulled the 1970s floral prints out, spray painted the frames, and cut the mats for my own pictures. It's so so so easy to use a mat cutting kit and it saves TONS of money! The green floral pictures are from IKEA-- very cheap :)

3. The dresser was free (thanks mom!) and just needed a new coat of paint. The little rocking chair was Kaleif's when he was little.

4. And for my favorites. . . the rocker/recliner was fifty cents. . . seriously, fifty cents at an estate auction. And that very cute baby buggy-- fifty cents as well! I love the buggy and it works great as a toy box :)