Flashback 2014 - changing the air vents

Before and After

Hubby changing out the air vents throughout the house!

This is before we repainted the bedroom.

It made such a huge difference to get the old yellow ones out!

We changed all the vents throughout the entire house!
Simple budget friendly updates!

New Euro Shams

      I found these beautiful Euro Shams on sale at Macy's last week. It just goes to show sets aren't everything. I love mixing a matching whenever possible. They were $79 on sale for $30 something. The color goes perfectly with our bedspread, and accent pillows. I believe the three non-set accent pillows are from Kirlands, T.J.Maxx and Target. The gold detailed pillow is from Kirklands and hasn't been pictured before.

Before the Euro pillows and new Kirklands accent pillow:

 After the Euro shams/pillows and accent pillow:   

     

Euro shame fabric and patter up close

The edges of the Euro Sham are white with a rope look. 

        Eventually I want to get bigger pillows for the large horizontal flower pillow cases because they look a little droopy and sad. For now, I'm happy with the visual improvement.

New lamps & accent pillows

See previous master bedroom blog posts CLICK HERE!

Hubby and I spotted this beautiful lamp on sale at Kirklands and it was love at first sight! If you don't know, Kirklands has a spin to win app --- >> you can play once a day! Hubby and I always spin before we check-out. You can get huge discounts, up to 50% off, I think. Anyway, it's a must download! Kirklands always has a variety of lamps in stock. These are shimmery and creamy. Love them!

 Hubby had this bedroom set before we got married. It's very big and masculine. I don't hate it, but one day I may replace the headboard, that's at the bottom of our list, no where in the near future. I purchased the "Dream" sign a few years ago at Garden Ridge (now AtHome stores). You can see the new lamp on the right side.

 I love flowers, and I love blues/greens. I found this bed spread a few years ago. It's got a corduroy type of feel, so it's durable with a house full of dogs who like to jump up and claw everything. Our accent wall is painted in Zen by Behr from Home Depot. I also purchased the sparkly "Mr. & Mrs." pillow from T.J.Max or Ross (I can't remember). The shiny cream pillow is from Target.

Here you can see the two lamps on our night stands. They are sheer when the sun shines through them. I planted 8 roses bushes behind bedroom windows a few years ago. It's so nice to see the bright red fresh blooms peeking in (unfortunately they aren't blooming right now). 

 

 Another angle . We have a third huge window to the right of this picture where you can see our fountain. 

(the fountain front and center outside our third window. I have a past blog about restoring this old fountain into what it is today)

You can see the main paint color in our bedroom here, also a peek at our vaulted ceilings. We painted the other three walls in our bed room, Avenue Tan by Behr a few months ago. Finally changed it from Burnt Almond, which was much to dark! All we need now is crown molding which we will install ourselves eventually. :-)

 Making memories with each project.

A bigger Master bedroom

      My major prayer request when we started house hunting was for God to bless me with a huge master bedroom. My husband brought a large framed king size bed, matching night stands and a huge dresser into our marriage. While living in the apartment we barely had room to walk, and the dresser stayed with his parents. A small master bedroom was a deal breaker. I wouldn't even look at a house until I saw the master's measurements.  

      We looked at this houses several times before putting an offer. After much prayer we moved forward. But one thing was for sure, that over-sized storage unit had to GO!

 

(In this picture you can see how obnoxious the shelving unit was. It's also a good picture of the floors before we refinished them. You can also see the quarter round molding before we installed real base boards.)

 (Our nephew helping us pick paint colors )

 (Our nephew explaining why his color choice is the right one)

 (My dad being silly and my mom holding our nephew)

 (Yes! It's gone! The painters we hired had to re-texture the walls.)

Would you like to see what our master bedroom looks like now? I will reveal more in future posts. :-)

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