Hello all, I've been meaning to blog about my house for quite some time now. If you don't know by now, aside from being a photography fanatic, I am also a house interior decorator lover. My husband and I bought our house back in 2009 and we've been updating, decorating and renovating it ever since. So, for future reference, you'll see a few blog post about my house from time to time. I figure by blogging about my house and interior design work it will be something different and fun to read for you all, instead of just reading about photography. Hopefully, some of my decorating tips and pictures will inspire you all to help create your own house projects or inspire you to decorate your home. Before I continue further, I just want to note, posting about my house it is not to brag about how nice my house is. Truthfully, it really isn't, it is far from perfection as you will see in the upcoming future blog posts. It's actually a tiny house that needs a lot of work. Blogging about my house is to serve only for one purpose, and that is to inspire.

To continue on, this blog post is about mine and my husband's bedroom. If you liked my Facebook page or is a friend of mine on Facebook, I've talked a lot about this bedroom, and mainly because I'm quite proud of how it turned out so far. My husband and I worked really hard on this bedroom to make it look nice and comfortable. 

When we first bought our house, all 3 bedrooms were not appealing at all. Specifically speaking, our bedroom. It had ugly yellow carpet from the 70's?, bedroom was small too, but it was the biggest one out of the 3 in our house. And, if you live in the south of Milwaukee, WI, you can't really find nice sized bedroom, especially on a budget. So, yes, bummer. But my husband and I were determined to make this small bedroom feel like a bedroom. We knew what we wanted to get done considering the size of it. I'm a huge fan of HGTV so watching numerous TV shows has really inspired me to turn my small and hideous bedrooms into something I absolutely love. Prior to all the renovations, I begin to sketch a design plan of what I want my bedroom to look like....

Here's the before picture...

Here's the start of the renovation's ....

The husband working hard at putting the wood flooring and baseboards in. Since he's the Engineer, he did all the handy work! I am no expert in these kind of house handy work projects. So I leave them all to my husband to do. My part is to design, shop and decorate for the house. I enjoy doing my part!

Here's the aftermath of the putting in the hardwood and baseboards in...

What paint and little decor can do to a bedroom...

This bedroom took us 5 years to fix and update and it is not even near being done yet. I'd say, it's about 90% complete. It still needs quite a few other work. For instance, the closet and painting the trims. Actually, the closet needs a lot of work, we are still figuring out how to build a shoe closet in there. This closet project in our bedroom is on hold and will probably take a couple of months - 1 year to finish. Just because we have our family room and exterior curb appeal work to focus on as of right now. But, do stay tune for those future house projects.

Anyway, at first, I wanted my bedroom to be yellow, grey, black, and white (as you can see in the pictures above). However, after staging my bedroom for a bridal boudoir photo session with some new white decorative pillows, I decided to change the colors. I feel like with the white and grey combo, it gives it a more airy, dreamy, and soft look to the whole bedroom. And, it's more me! So, I stuck with the grey and white combo and eliminated the yellow. One of my picture frame on the wall is still yellow, but that's an easy fix with spray paint. Figure I'll just spray paint it white. Haven't done so yet, but will do it sometime this summer. As for my yellow mustard bench, I'm quite sad that I have to cover it up with a white blanket. It is such a beautiful bench. Ill prob move that bench down to the family room and get a different bench for my bedroom. My family room colors are grey, white, gold, bronze, silver and black. So the mustard yellow bench will prob fit better down there more than in my bedroom. But we will see how my family room turns out in order to make a decision.

My baby thinks my decorations is his toys, I have to constantly remind him NOT to touch anything on this bed tray. Sometimes he listen and sometimes he doesn't. But, he's a lot better than his dad! His dad (my husband) is the worst, he'll actually move my decors around, put all of his clothes and garbage on it. I have to constantly remind him as well, but he's a terrible listener, worst than his own child. I know, my husband is pretty bad, he's lucky he has a partially OCD wife, me!

The majority of money was spent on decorations and furnishings, not so much on the hardwood floors and baseboards which was only about a total of $550.00. We saved half of the cost by doing it ourselves, well more like my husband did all the handy work. Thank you dear! The most expensive item in this bedroom is our mattress.

I'll try to break the items down by where I bought it from and how much...Queen size black bed frame- Steinhafels ($400), bed bench- Target ($175), Breakfast bed tray- Amazon ($30), Night stand end tables- Walmart ($25/each), Decorative pillows- Homegoods ($85), White comforter blanket- Walmart ($30), White curtains- Ikea ($30), Grey lamps- Ikea ($20/each), White deer taxidermy wall art- Homegoods ($30), Laminate floors- Lumbar liquidation ($400), White baseboards- Home depot ($150), Crystal tea light chandelier- Amazon ($40), picture frames and decors- gift from friends/families and some are bought from Homegoods, and labor cost- Free over the past 5.5 years.

There you have it, my bedroom in progress. I hope this blog inspired you to re-create or start on a house project. Please stay tune for more future home sweet home blog posts!

UPDATE: 06/12/2015..... NEW BED BENCH from HOMEGOODS!

I'm putting the old yellow mustard bed bench in the family room.

Love, CXyNB