This is what it looked like when he moved in:
Baige and blah!! It's been this way for two years, until I moved in........I decided it was time for a little color in the room. It all started with pinterest.com where I found a color scheme I loved. It had the white and red that is already the color of my exisiting bedspread.
and I also saw an idea for reclaiming doors and turning them into a headboard.
So we went to our local salvage yard and found an old accordian style closet door for $5.
We brought them home and hubby took them apart for me.
I scuffed them up with a little rough sandpaper so that the primer would stick. Then I primered and painted. I fell in love wih the idea of yellow in the bedroom, but the above color scheme doesn't have yellow in there! But then I decided that it be great as a pop of color on the headboard.
It was all starting to come together in my head. I just needed hubby to buy in to it. So I showed him the color scheme and hubby actually liked it (a mircle) and so I immediate whisked us off to Home Depot. He selected the actual shade of blue!
Before he changed his mind, I immediately began to get out the painter's tape and rollers and we painted the whole room on a Sunday night.
It got a little messy, but well worth it!
This is the final result!
Side view of the headboard
The next step will be to add a shelf that runs the length of the room where I can display a few photos. Much like the ideas I saw on pinterest:
Then I've got to get a new window treatment on and do a little of decorating on the wall opposite to the headboard to tie it all together.
