The Room Makeover

While visiting home this weekend, I noticed my sister's room was a terrible mixture of hand-me-downs, trophies, and unhung pictures. As any good older sister would do, I completed the $200, 6-hour total bedroom overhaul.

Here are the before pictures:

Generally a mess and completely devoid of any real style, design, and kinda ugly.

So here's what we did:

• Cleaned out all the drawer, shelves, and closets and tossed or donated everything unused or unnecessary.
• Picked out favorite posters, knick-knacks, pictures, and vinyl records to display. It helps to pick a color scheme to help with this process.
• Foraged for furniture around the house. So often tables, chairs, and lamps are in really bad places and would look so much better in a different room.
• Things we bought (all from Target and only $100 dollars):
• Duvet cover and sheets
• accent pillows
• storage bins
• lamp
• lots and lots and lots of command hooks
• Now use those command hooks and hang just about everything, put those posters up on the walls, hang purses, jackets, and accessories. 
• Put some time into placing pictures, trophies (pick just a few to display), and accents

Below is the final product:

A new duvet, posters on a smaller wall, and a matching lamp

Hang a selection of awards on command hooks, hang records with similar colors with command strips.

Placed a bin to hold remaining records, put books with the theme colors, and whittle down the number of books on the shelves. Also pick cohesive frames.

Note the much less overwhelming number of trophies, add a bin for odds and ends, and add a mirror.

We took a chair from the guest room, hung an old mirror, and bought a new pillow that matches the sheets. 

So in one afternoon we gave her room style, a put together feel, and some much needed color. It was fairly cheap, totally easy and makes the room so much more inviting and pleasant to be in. I love being a weekend warrior and doing something that really makes your house a home. So what will you do next weekend? Let out the preppy weekend warrior in you and show me the results.