I see all these, post or TV shows about decorating on a budget, but realistically 10,000$ is not a budget for a bedroom, that is a budget for a car LOL! Now for some of you lucky enough, 10,000$ may very well be your budget, but until that day comes for the rest of us, I figured I would share my tips and tricks on decorating bedrooms for 200$ per room or less, so here we go! We will start with our daughters room. When we moved into our house, it was a MESS! This is what her room looked like the day we moved in,
For those of you who don't know, my husband and I bought our home from my parents, this is the house where my sister & I grew up in as kids, our parents then rented it out and then we purchased it. It was very sad to see our old child hood home so mistreated, but hubby & I new we could make it right again, it would just take, time, patience, and money! A lot of the rooms in our house had to wait a long time to be "made over" because we paid for everything in cash, but that's ok, sometimes waiting gives you time to find better deals and it certainly makes you appreciate it more! So when we found out we were pregnant we got to work painting,
this color is called So So Sweet by beauti~tone
So now on to present day, this is our daughters room now, and now I will explain what cost what. In my opinion she has a beautiful little girls bedroom, I would have been more than happy to have such a cute little girls room, she is 4 years old now and she loves her room so much, so here we go,
The theme in her room is mostly Disney Princess, but there are a lot of other things tied in there too, her bedroom door is decorated with a Disney Princess 3D poster that we bought at Dollar store for 1$
This is the back of her door, Winnie the pooh wall art was a second hand gift from family, Jets banner, dollar store, Pooh picture bought used online for around 1$, 25 cent hook for dollar store to hang her house coat and monkey growth chart a gift from her God Mother!
Here we see a few farm animals on the wall, these were also from the dollar store, we bought these when she was new born and they were a great investment and we used them to help teach her her animals, next a pretty Princess mirror, birthday gift, an awesome kitchen set that she loves and uses everyday, a second hand gift from her cousins. We bought her some food and dishes to go inside.
Now we see her Curtains, these were expensive (to me, i am thrifty lol) so when asked what she would like for her birthday we suggested these, a perfect gift from her God Mother, her "Mckenzie" letters were from Micheals, we got these for 50 cents each, her blind was again on the expensive side for me, but I wanted her to have a black out blind so it would be dark enough to nap in the afternoons. Her pink wall canvas was made by her, her tub filled stuffies was 10$, the stuffies are souvenirs and gifts, the tinkerbell wall tattoo was a gift and so were the letter's on her tub of stuffies, here you also see half of her huge closet which has Disney Princess wall stickers on it, also from a dollar store
this is the greatest deal of all, her double bed, box spring and frame was FREE from a kind stranger! And on the wall here you see more little night time dollarama stickies, a clock given to her for her birthday along with the piggy bank on her bedside table, the little table was free from her Grandma and just needed a little paint, her comforter and pillow cases were only 19$!!! I loved that deal, we just used sheets we already had for her bedding, the bed set including the sheet was almost 100$ ( so glad we didn't cave and get the expensive one)
her beautiful Winnie the Pooh cross stitch art I won for her at a Chinese auction! the giraffe growth chart was another dollar store find and so was the light switch plate!
and finally her new to us dresser, we recently bought this dresser for 20$ added 10$ worth of paint and voila! I love it, it is so perfect! her frame was a gift, the round night light was a garage sale find, the rectangle night light is a second hand gift from her cousin, the little shelf you see was a garage sale find with a little paint slapped on! Her Mickey ears are her souvenir from Disney on Ice, TV is borrowed from her Grandma who currently doesn't need it and DVD player we had extra kicking around the house!
So here is the total for you
Paint 60$ for all the walls and accessories
Dresser 20$
Dollar Store finds 15$
Garage sale finds, night light and shelf 2$
Bed Set 19$
Toy box 10$
Black out Blind 20$
Food and dishes for in the kitchen 5$
Totals 151$
A room like this does not happen over night, it takes time to do things the thrifty way lol! It takes time to find good deals and certainly patience! But in the end it is worth it, cause now you have a beautiful room, that you can actually afford and you don't have that knot in your stomach every time you look in the room cause you know you charged it to a credit card or paid more than you should have. Here's hoping this will help motivate you all to finish that room you have left unfinished cause you couldn't afford to, I plan to post all the bedrooms in our home step by step like this shortly :) Happy decorating!!
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