Master bedroom make-over!

Ohhhh this has been such a long time coming.  It is recommended that the master bedroom is the first room you make your own when you move into a new place, but for Matt and I, we always do the opposite.  We do the kitchen first ( I looove to organize the kitchen cabinets), then the living room, bathrooms, and usually the guest room and office.  We have nice furniture, curtains, ect... for the room, but never do more than set it all up quickly.  I finally decided that enough is enough and we needed to make our bedroom a bedroom.  Well, this happened months ago (like almost a year ago) but since our bedroom is hardly ever clean, I never had the chance to snap some photos of it. Well friends, I have finally cleaned up our room enough to share it with you!  Mom, please pick your jaw up off the floor. :)

Here's a very poor before shot of our bedroom from about a year ago (It was laundry day):

Ughh. Even without all the laundry thrown around, it's just plain ugly.  And boring.  And ugly.  Those curtains used to live in the living room when we first moved in, but then got moved in here.  They're a gorgeous plum/eggplant color and block sunlight like nobody's business, but they don't match anything.  Something needed to be done, and fast.

Here is the view from the bedroom door.

Last February I found the new curtains, sheets, bed skirt, comforter, blanket, and pillows at Target (yep one stop shopping).  The new bedding is casual, comfy, yet has a little bit of elegance too (or so I like to think).  Which is the whole idea/plan behind the bedroom makeover.  The hottie dresser in the corner I found on criagslist for $50.  It apparently is some brand of furniture well know in Michigan and the seller's grandparents received it as a wedding gift.  The TV is from the living room because we recently purchased a new one (which I can now see without squinting at).  If you're super observant, you may have noticed the dresser on the far left is the one from the guestroom.  I moved it in here because I didn't want to share the new one with Matt.  I'm such a nice wife.

Ok, if you sweep to the right of the picture above (and look to the right of the window on the right.  Right, got it?), you'll be looking straight into the room, instead of at an angle. 

 The doors on the right go into my closet (shown here).  The little tan bench was a snatch up from my curly haired friend Rebecca, when she moved back to Canada (hiya buddy!).  I totally draped that scarf about 12 times before it looked "natural" enough for my liking.  Normally the bench is full of clothes that I tried on, but didn't feel like hanging back up.

Ok, moving on.  Here is the view from the corner by the tan bench, which gives you a better idea of the layout of the room.

I'm not 100% pleased with the art situationon this side of the room yet, so at some point something will be changed.  I also hate how the dresser and headboard clash so much, so at some point one of them will be painted or re-stained.  Probably the dresser...and it may be painted white.

Ok, here is the view from the corner by the new dresser (behind the TV).

The open door is the bedroom door (duh) which leads to the hallway.  If you pan over to the left a bit, you see our closets (which are never ever closed unless I've psycho cleaned and actually put away laundry for once...this has lasted about 3 days so far!)

Here's a shot of my bedside table:

I've been searching for a different lamp shade, but haven't found what I have in my head yet.  And I may paint the lamp a different color too (weird).  See that white penis shaped thing?  Here's a close up of that:

I think it's actually an appetizer dish, but I use this little Goodwill find ($2.99) for my hair ties, bobby pins, chapstick, and jewlery that I forget to take off until I get into bed.  The top of my table used to be a mess of bobby pins ( I found 38 on there when I cleaned last week...) so this has helped me keep things a bit more organized.

Here's Matt's side of the bed:

The mirror used to be brown (and in our entry way) but I spray painted it white to use in here.  The art print was something we found at Art Fair on the Square in Madison 4 years ago.  The blue thing is a piece glass we found in Door County and front picture is a photobooth strip of Matt and I from 2003.  That was an impromptu project a couple months ago, which I'll share with you soon.  And yes, that is a giant metal flashlight to club intruders with next the the picture.

So, far I'm pretty pleased with how far our room has come.  It only took us 6 years of living together to have dressers in the bedroom, so that's something.  I would still like to paint the walls a different color and add a giant rug to the room.  All the bedrooms are over the garage, so the floors are always freezing cold.  We've actually thrown around the idea of putting carpet in our room too, but we'll see what happens.

So, what do you think? Looking ok so far? Want to bet the room won't be this clean in a week?

~S~