Spring into Summer

It is interesting how something as simple as your bedding can help you embrace the season. In the before picture I have a rich color of bedding with great texture that is thick, warm and a inviting, tell you to escape the cold of fall and winter and get cozy on up! The after picture shows bedding that is light, breezy, bright and echos the light we see outside during the spring and summer. The great thing about these simple changes is that they are inexpensive and every 6 months gives you a new change and feel to your room. Makes you think -- 'what else can I do to help me Spring into Summer?' 

Teenage Pizazz

This room had good bones: nice Bombay Kids furniture, Bead-board and shelving...  It just lacked teenage girl pizazz.  Of course I fell creature to my ADHD and didn't take before pics.  With paint and accessories, we transformed this space to fit the personality of the teen who occupied it.  The accent wall, with the bead board, was painted a deep purple.  While the other walls were coated in a soft lavender.  The bedding was a compilation of linens from Target, Marshall's, and World Market; as well as the lamp, dress form, etc.  The builder-stock closet doors where give and coat of magnet paint and covered in the adjacent wall's purple.  This makeover cost just over $300 and a day of painting and accessory magic... Almost as fun as Disneyland!

-B.Ballard

Peaceful Slumber

 Sleep is one of my absolute favorite things to do...on the other hand, waking up is one of my absolutely least favorite things to do. But more importantly the bedroom is definitely the most important room in a home because it is ALL yours!  Look at this space and see how it was transformed from stark white blah-ness too color and personality, ready for a peaceful slumber.

 

Curtains, small personalized accessories and some decorative pillows are inexpensive ways to completely transform a room. But the one thing I want you take away is to think out side the box. Hundreds or thousands of dollars are not necessary to create your "dream" (hehe..) space. For this room instead of purchasing an expensive headboard, decorative rod iron art work pieces were put together to create the same affect $1,000,000 dollar headboard would have. Okay maybe not $1,000,000, but the rod iron was definitely an area to save a little money without compromising on design. Here are some close ups....

Don't you just love that pillow...or that clock, not to mention the chunky frame. Eek design is so exciting.

-B. Petersen