Update: The Master Bedroom

Slowly but surely we will get this house furnished!

I'm enjoying the ride and getting giddy about every step of the way.

Something I have been planning for many months is our master bedroom. As I mentioned in a previous post, we were gifted a king sized bed from family last month. I knew once we had the bed I would want to get that room finished...as in: paint it, make a headboard, buy bedding, add accessories, etc. So that has been my focus for the past month or so.

Here is what I've got thanks to Polyvore!

The bedding is from West Elm (I don't I have ever expressed it on here but this is one of my all time favorite stores!) and the rest of the details are all just to get the idea of the overall concept of the room. 

One of the biggest pieces that I was trying to work out was the headboard. 

I have desired to make an upholstered headboard since we were married. I actually wanted one so bad in 2009 that while my husband was at work I went and bought 2 yards of fabric, a staple gun, and batting and covered our old, inherited headboard. It was cute but whenever we would move and dissembled the bed I would laugh so hard at how funny it looked. 

Last year I started planning and looking into the details of making headboards and started discussing it with my step-dad, who loved carpentry and was very good at it. But April came and we were reminded how precious each day is and I realized that my goals of making a headboard might not be possible anymore with him gone. 

My mom shared with my grandpa the plans that I had built up with my step-dad and last month we started emailing back and forth regarding the details. I drew up a template and the measurements over Thanksgiving and after numerous detailed emails with measurements, materials, and plans I got this picture yesterday from my grandpa:

Holy Excitement!

I am so in love with it already! 

I have a beautiful slate colored fabric and nail heads on their way and I can not wait to make this thing beautiful. My grandpa did an amazing job, don't you think!? I am so incredibly thankful for him and I think he has really enjoyed the project as well.

I will definitely post updates when he delivers this to me in January and as I work on the rest of the room!

Progress: Half Bath

we are starting small here. 

this was the hardest room to paint ever...but it was a good place to start making our house become a home. It is also pretty cheap to decorate a half bath...another good reason for starting here. I made this mood board below for my inspiration for the room. 

I wanted to work with what I already had and keep it pretty simple. My goal was to make the hand towel the color in the room. All in all I spent around $30 on this room. The hand towel and bathmat are both from World Market (I also scored two other hand towels on clearance that I can switch out anytime I want). The wall decor is just simple place mats from Pier 1 that I got back in 2009. They have been in every apartment since we got married and they are great wall decor...cheap too! 

Forgive me for my poor photos. 

I am too lazy to take real pictures and it is incredibly hard to take photos of a half bath!