Workin On - Our bedroom

 i know these are to be on wednesdays but i am all out of sorts lately. 

i am a 704.... (struggle in progress).  i mean that is really the best way to describe what i have going.  i try to be all organized and orderly but somehow it is always a struggle with me.  so i am a 704 and i would like to think you like me that way, but who knows.

anyway what i wanted to share our bedroom redo with you today.  we have been working on it for quite some time and it isn't all there yet, but we are getting there anyway.  when we bought the house this bedroom was lavender.  it was the previous owner's children room and three little girls slept here each night dreaming of princesses.  i wanted our bedroom to have nothing to do with princesses so the lavender was the first thing to go.

we opted for a cleaner color scheme that reflects our taste.  2 of the walls and ceiling are white, white, white, one of the walls is a bold yellow, and the other wall is a dark grey.

we selected from rodda paint colors and chose the horizon line, a no VOC paint. we began the bedroom remodel by ripping out the existing small closet.  in the photo below you can see not only the old closet but the lovely lavender wall color.

we replaced the two small sliding doors with one large door with bard door hardware.  the hardware came from McMaster Carr, which has about anything if your patient enough to go through the zillion products on their web page.  the door itself is cabinet grade plywood that we simply polyurethane.  eventually, i think, we will add hardware but it hasn't happened yet.  the inside of the closets got closet systems from the Container Store to maximize the storage space we have.  the stag print came from push me pull you design from JD's home town of Philly, PA.  (we also have a kiwi print from them that hangs in the living room).  

the other side of our tiny bedroom contains the bed.

we have yet to figure out the window treatment and the blinds came with the house and will be eventually be replaced.  i bought the frames back in january with the layout i wanted in mind.  then the frames went up on the wall, most of them without photographs.  only recently did i have prints made to fill out the frame and it has turned out better than i could have hoped.

most of the photos we took ourselves, but some are from friends or etsy.  we also have some framed butter flies that we got while in portland last summer at a friend's wedding from the store Cargo Inc.  Our bedding is a discontinued set from West Elm of birds and trees... i still love it every time i see it.  

this is the final corner of our room.  the photos are black and whites of the fur babies.  the old light fixture will eventually be replaced, trim will be put up, and window treatments will be found, but until then i think our room is getting there.  i know it feels much more like "our room" now then it did in princess purple.  as with any remodel our motto is one step at a time, one step at a time.