Bedroom Plans

As I have mentioned before, we live in a tiny apartment and we are about to move (in mid January) and we are SO excited!! We have been looking at a lot of options (another apartment, condo, small house) but I think we are most excited to just FINALLY be able to decorate our room!

Now, my husband is not normally a decorator, but our room has been pretty pathetic for...well...most of our marriage. I mean, it always looked okay...but never really felt like "us". So now we are tackling this project together...but we obviously don't want to put much work into it right now just to have to take it all down in a couple of months. So for now we are dreaming.

Our style is Ikea/vintage shops/Target/Apartment Therapy/free crap off Craigslist that can be painted and then distressed.

Here are a few plans that we have:

1. Bed frame

I made us a headboard a while back and I have never really loved it. I wanted to love it...but I just didn't after I was done with it. So, after some shopping the hubs and I found this headboard and footboard on Craigslist for $50 (the lady wanted $75 but I offered $50...yes I am that person).

We still have to pick it up this weekend (and bribe my parents to watch our daughter so we can bring it home in our little 97 CR-V) but we are so excited!

Wanna know the best part? We are going to stain it RED! Oh my heart skips a beat for distressed red furniture! I have really been trying to go bold lately and not always take the easy way out in decor...and when I suggested a red bed to my husband I thought he would look at me crazy...but his eyes got big and he said, "That would be so cool!"...and then I knew he was the man for me:)

We had a really hard time deciding on a bed. We almost went with the Ikea Hemnes bed (still available at Ikea), but we didn't want all black furniture and it is out of our price range right now. We did want a bed that had side rails though so that we wouldn't need a bed skirt. See...we are NOT furniture shoppers. Normally we know what we want and then spend forever finding it.

2. Ikea Hemnes night stands.

There is currently someone on Cragslist that wants $90 for the pair (which is good considering they retail for $60 a piece)...but I will weaken them over time. My goal is $50 for the pair.

Our last piece that we want is a real grown up dresser!! FINALLY my husband can feel like an adult and get rid of the plastic dressers in his closet (and I get his side of the closet when he gets the dresser!).

This is the Ikea Hemnes dresser:

Normally I am not a fan of matching furniture...but when we went to Ikea we really liked these Hemnes pieces and their construction.

So, then all that's left is just some throw pillows and stuff for the walls. I want a photo collage wall of us and then something like this for above our bed:

I put this together a while back and I have been waiting to print it out and frame it for above our TV in the living room (although now I want a horizontal version instead).

I really like the idea of initials above the bed...we just aren't cursive/pretty writing people. I thought about doing something like this with our initials. Yup...dirty and distressed...that's us!

I got all these letter images on Flikr through Leo Reynolds (he has free downloads of amazing prints)

So, that's the "plan". I am really excited to get the bed this weekend and I have been stalking Craigslist for the rest. I missed a chance on the dresser about a week ago. Someone was selling it for $65!! (It retails for $300) and it was gone in about an hour...don't you hate that?

I am content to wait for the other pieces. We could just go buy them at Ikea...but why spend full price when there is someone out there potentially getting rid of it?

I am ALWAYS looking for bedroom inspiration (bedroom decor people...get your minds out of the gutter!) so please link up in the comments either your favorite sites or even your bedroom! I would love it see it:)