So here we go, round two of decorating a room for under 200$ This is our room, Mine and my husbands, this was the last room we decorated, which of course should have been the first room done because we spend so much time there, but none the less it is finished and beautiful! But the day we moved in, not so beautiful, nasty really, this was our room:
Yuck! So glad that is long gone!
So when my parents owned this house they tore down the wall between my room and the playroom and made a massive bedroom, it worked for them, but not for us, the room was too big, it was hard to decorate, it was a waste of space and we needed the other room for storage.
So we put a wall back up!
Now to our current room and the cost of decorating it, here you see our bed, my husband had this bed when we moved in together, the bedding we bought in the city I forget were it was, I think Zellers, it was 30$ for the bed set on sale, regular 75$, plus we bought microfibre summer sheets for 30$ on sale from 50$ and wonderfully fuzzy winter sheets for 30$ on sale from 75$ we were pretty excited! Okay I was pretty excited! The stars you see above our bed were a garage sale find for 1$. On my husbands bedside table/floating shelf, you see, the wheat that was free from a ditch, I dried it out and I love it! The vase was won at an online auction, 1$, his frame was a birthday gift, the bedside tables them selves are actually floating shelves, my budget for bedside tables was 15$ each and when I went shopping I couldn't find anything in my budget, so bought these floating shelves for 9.99$! I love coming in under budget! My bedside table has a candle holder, a book and one of the center pieces from our wedding, all given to me :)
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I made the "curtains" or whatever you would call that, window poof lol, out of 2 extra pillow cases that came with our bedding, free! The wall tattoo was 10$ from those parties people have lol. I love this accent wall, I picked the room colors after we got our bedding so it would match perfectly, I love matching!
Here you see a shelf which our DVD's are on, bought online at auction for 5$, our 32 inch tv was free from the same kind stranger that gave us Kenzie's bed, our Dvd player had been kicking around forever, the shelf that the tv is on was made out of my parents old water bed, FREE! The Dresser is my Memere's (Great Grandmother) dresser from way back in the day, a nice coat of paint and it has a new home in our room! everything on our dresser was gifts, from our wedding and my birthday other than the baskets, I bought those filled with bath goodies at the Boxing Day sales regular 42$ on for 6$ plus we had all the bath goodies to use as gifts too! The baskets are filled with our rice bags that I made.
here we see two full length mirrors, my husband had both of these in his apartment, we painted the frames and the work wonderfully in here, everyroom needs a little black don't forget. The cowboy hats are beer hats, free with a case of beer, I just took the tags off lol! This dresser Joe's Grandpa bought him at a garage sale, we also painted this one to match and it works great!
sometimes the wood stove heat doesn't make it all the way to the bedrooms like I would like, I hate being cold when I am sleeping! We had been using a little electric heater, but I had just told hubby wouldn't it be nice to have a little fire place in here, and lo and behold our friend/neighbor had posted one for sale online, she then turned around and gave it to us for FREE! We use it everynight and love the heat it gives, love it!
I just wanted to show a picture of our bedside carpets, they are from IKEA they were 10$, they are fake sheep skin and I love it, it is so super soft and makes me happy everytime I wiggle my toes on it! lol!
So that is our bedroom, time to total up the costs!
Bedding 80$
Bedside tables 20$
Garage sale/online auction finds 7$
Wall tattoo 10$
Baskets 6$
Carpets 20$
Paint room and accessories 40$
Totals 193$
I hope this post helps you see how you can do you room on a smaller budget, get out to garage sales, make use of online buy and sell type sites, there are so many great deals to be found, but remember, don't buy something just because it is on sale, or cheap etc, don't take something just cause it's free, you have to have a use for it or you are wasting your time or money. Good Luck!
