Our bedroom makeover

For a few months now i have been feeling really frustrated with our bedroom. It has felt really dark and uninviting... I've been slowly working on a makeover and now i can finally share it! You will have to excuse the photos in this post - i uploaded the non edited ones (where i had lightened them a bit to make it easier to see) and the internet is being too slow today to reload them again.

These are the 'before' pictures...

The yellow dresser - i thought it was a good idea at the time, and now it is in the garage where i don't have to look at it!

The bedside tables - i started painting them and then got bored...

We decided to treat ourselves and buy some new furniture.. we slept in my brothers bed one night (on his brand new mattress) and once we got back in our own bed we realised just how uncomfy our mattress is! I must add though that i have had the bed and mattress since i was 15, and i think it cost me a total of $110 for both!
We only planned on getting a new mattress but then decided to splurge on a new bed (one that i have wanted forever!) and also bedside tables and chest of drawers...

This is opposite our bed...

I also decided to move the position of the bed, from the wall on the right hand side of the room to this below... It makes the room feel so much bigger! The only downside is that the bed has quite big posts and you have to turn sideways to get to Gavin's side. I have a bruise on my leg at the moment because i keep forgetting!

I have wanted a white doona cover and this type of wooden bed for a long time. I was so happy when we got both and set it up!

The white doona cover is from target, I grabbed it in their mid year home sale - $45 i think.

The red and yellow cushions were from harvey norman in a sale recently and the smaller purple coloured one was also from target.

I just made these mr & mrs cushions on the weekend. It was my first time sewing any type of cushion cover! I think they turned out alright, although Gavin is complaining that there are too many cushions!

Gavin's side of the bed...

I found a use for this small set of shelving. Books were overflowing on our bedside tables before, so thought this would be a good chance to put them somewhere else! This doesn't match the other furniture in the room, but we like having a space for the extra books, and ones that we are reading at the moment...

This sign is from a cute shop near our house that Gavin bought for me...

My side of the bed..

These letters came from etsy, and i painted them...

The light shade was an afterthought that i am glad i grabbed. I think it was $15 from kmart, but it looks nice hanging in the room. I am not thinking i should have grabbed a black one to match the bedside lamps. But i do like the white...

The wall sticker was $4 on ebay. It was originally above our bed, but then i swapped which wall the bed is against.

Do you think i have too many necklaces??

I love my owl! it was $15 from spotlight, and i love the colour.
The letters spelling 'jack' came from salamanca market a few weeks ago, i like how they are a little different to the ones in shops at the moment.

Everyone always thinks that my plate of earrings is a plate of lollies!

And finally (yes - the picture isn't straight) - i printed off these free printables and popped them in $4 kmart frames... All these prints, plus more are on my pinterest page, and all are free!... the $4 frames weren't the best idea i had for the makeover, because a few minutes after this picture was taken, i heard a crash and one had fallen off the wall and broke in half! Need a different idea for these, i think!

The bunting above the window is from our wedding, and i love the little touch it adds :)

And there we go! Thanks for sharing in my bedroom makeover :)
Our bedroom feels a lot lighter and brighter. It has become a place that i feel like i want to spend time in, and not as stressful. We love it a lot :)