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$40
Bedroom Makeover by
Tawra Kellam
By
shopping at thrift stores and making do
with what I had, I spent under $40
redecorating my daughter’s room.
Elly’s
new room took me two days work, 15-30
minutes at a time, resting about 1-2
hours in between. It took me about one
day to put the paint on the walls.
(That’s with the help of a 3 year old.)
I was sick or I would have been able to
complete it in one day.
To
redecorate, we designed the room around
a comforter that Elly had received from
her grandmother as a gift. We purchased
everything from the thrift store over 2
weeks. We had to go about 3-4 times, but
it was well worth the savings.
For color
on the wall behind the bed, I found a
twin sheet that I had on hand that I had
purchased for $1 at the thrift store. I
ironed the sheet and then used the
staple gun to staple it up on the wall.
I hung the canopy with a hook we
already had and then tied it by
gathering it and stapling the gather.
Then we stapled a tassel on the gather.
We found the tassels for $.12 each on
clearance after Christmas.
Elly
wanted a tall princess bed, so we took
identical sized boxes of books from the
garage and put one under each leg. (We
self-publish so we had a ton of books.)
We removed the wheels from the bed
frame. Then we put a board on top of the
boxes for stability. Elly’s bed frame is
now about 15 inches feet off the ground
so use the space under the bed for
storing toys.
My mom
made some pillows to go with Elly’s
comforter from material she already had.
The long pink bolster was the one thing
we bought retail. That was some new
"extra fluffy soft" material that she
purchased for about $5 for one extra
special pillow.
I found a
picture at the store to put on the wall
behind her bed instead of a headboard.
We didn’t have any night stands that
would work, so we stacked three boxes of
books in the corner and one box in front
to make a staggered "L" shaped night
stand. We covered the boxes by layering
a white sheet and then lace on top. She
now has a nice place for her drinking
cup, clock and stuffed animals.
I
couldn’t find curtains to match and
didn’t have any material to make any so
I had to come up with something else. I
found a white round tablecloth that I
had. I ironed it, folded it in half and
then draped it over her curtain rod.
Then I took some fake flowers that I
already had and put them on top. It
turned out pretty nice for a free
curtain!
We found
a free standing mirror for $5 at the
thrift store. There were two things
wrong with it. It didn’t have a base and
the person had painted it black,
inadvertently getting spray paint on the
glass. Polish remover took off the paint
in a just a couple of seconds and we
simply leaned the mirror against the
wall in the corner.
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