Table for Two: Bedroom Redo

So weeks ago I decided to redo my bedroom. I wanted to do it for less than $50 since I had to use my own money. Plus I like a challenge! See the bottom of the post for my budget vs. what I spent!

I really had no idea what I wanted to do just that I was tired of brown and blue. I began perusing Pinterest and fell in love with gray and yellow.

Now one thing you should know before I start this before & after post is that I'm terrible about taking before pictures. I never remember until I've already started...

The Walls...

Started out brown (the blue flowers were only on this wall)

In process...

End result: gray!

The Curtains...

These were our blue curtains. Notice I forgot to take a before picture BEFORE we took all the drawers out of the dresser...The curtains we had before were a lot longer so I had to hang them up high. I've been wanting to lower them since I got the blue ones but I never got around to it. I was so excited to do it now and in the end I had to fold up the bottom of the new curtains because they were too long! But I wasn't ABOUT to move them AGAIN!

I had budgeted $10 for curtains from Goodwill. I wasn't sure if I wanted gray or yellow. I ended up with Cream and Gray. Since our blue curtains were lined I wanted to make sure I had 2 layers of curtains. I dyed the cream colored curtains yellow and sewed them to the top of the gray. Since they weren't as wide I got a nice set of gray "stripes" on either side of the yellow! :)

Tada!

Like I said...the curtains were longer than I anticipated so I bubbled the bottom and it's being held closed by a t-shirt rose I never wear.

Over the bed...

I knew I wanted something over the bed. I searched Pinterest for a sign or clever saying and ended up with "You Are My Sunshine"...it seemed fitting with the yellow theme. I bought an old shelf at Goodwill for $1.49, took off the brackets and modge podged letters cut out on my cricut.

I had 2 white picture frames hanging over our dresser for years (only 1 had a picture) so I moved those, added yellow backgrounds and new pictures.

Before...

After!

Over the dresser...

Like I said the two white picture frames were originally over the dresser. I didn't get a picture of them but you're not missing anything. I tried to hang them asymmetrically and it didn't turn out well, plus one was empty. So, what to put over the dresser now?? While looking through a box for a different picture frame I found a stack of small framed pics that I'd had hanging in our old house. The frames were from Ikea (the cheap kind that don't even have glass). I had stained them but I wanted to keep things mostly white in the bedroom so I painted them. Then because I'm lazy and didn't want to individually hang all the frames I glued them together!

The Other Wall...

I have to have my full length mirror and for most of the time we've lived in this house it's been sitting on the floor leaning against the wall. It was briefly hung but in the middle of the night it fell off the wall, scaring the be-jeebers out of us!

The one picture that had been hanging over the dresser is one of our favorites so I decided to move it to this wall. I hung the mirror and frame with yellow ribbon to bring more yellow into the room.

The Bed...

I knew I couldn't afford a new comforter so I went back and forth about what to do. I considered trying to dye our old one gray but finally decided to buy some king size sheets and make a duvet. Let me tell you I was NOT looking forward to it but it was really my only option. So I budgeted $15 for sheets at Goodwill. I walked in and went straight for the bedding area and the first thing I pulled out was a king sized gray duvet cover. Yes. You read that right. Exactly what I needed...for $2.99!

Our old comforter...

The new Gray duvet!

The Lamps...

I actually wasn't sure if I was going to change the lamps because it wasn't really in the budget but since I got the bed covered for $2.99 I decided I could swing it! I found 2 awesome white lamps at Goodwill but they didn't have shades so I ended up getting shades at Walmart. Believe it or not the lamps (including shades) ended up being my most expensive purchase.

The lamps originally had gold trim...