This bedroom.  LOL.  It has continued to undergo transformation over the last 1.5 years.  It started and stopped, at least twice.  The first time was when I realized we didn’t have the money or energy to switch out the old carpet.  So I “fixed” it with a new quilt.  Story here: Settling.

Then – our friends gifted us an unused gift card that paid for the bulk of a new carpet and we embarked on a redo.  Story here: Bedroom re-do.  Except that it never felt done.

Then – One day my friend Diane was over giving me some suggestions for my living room.  I mentioned that I really wanted to fix my room, but I wanted a white metal headboard and they are ridiculously expensive.  A day or two later she sent me a Craigslist link with a brass headboard.  We bought it and I got busy painting it white.

Over the course of the spring and summer we built other things when time and budget allowed.  I got very familiar with Pinterest, thanks to Diane, and had lots of new ideas.

I also painted the formerly (and short-lived) purple walls to match the first two.  I had to guess the color because the old can didn’t have a label.  It turned out fine.  *PHEW*

NOTHING happened over night. 

We had trips to Costa Rica and Canada (twice) and camping.  We had birthdays and friends from Oregon visits and a kitchen redo.  We had football and soccer and baseball schedules.  We had a leaky roof, a dying van, and a lawn tractor fire.  We had life.

And then there was the bedspread hunt. 

We have a history of not paying too much for bedding and I didn’t want to change that. I didn’t hate the spread we had and wasn’t going to change it just to change it.  I waited for a good deal.

We had a few attempts.

And then Walmart to the rescue!

And the curtain hunt began.

And while there are still a few decor ideas up our sleeves, I’m going to call it pretty-sorta-done. 
With the emphasis on pretty.

The hanging, mirrored, jewelry case was a Mother’s Day gift and perfect for me and this room.
The bedskirt is a story of ridiculous splurging after ruling out making it myself.  On rare occasions I will willingly pay to not have to do something ourselves (especially if it seems it would cost more time than we have).

I LOVE my bedroom.  I love it.  John is very happy with it, too.  I get such a happy, rest-filled feeling in there.  We have purposed to keep it very clean and so far it is working out.  We don’t do school in there anymore, either.  It’s a refuge in a busy house in a busy life.