Bedroom update and a really sweet deal

We are no longer sleeping on the mattress on the floor and have moved 

the newly painted furniture back in. 

Don't you just love the power of paint and how it transforms

a space so easily! That is all we have spent money

on so far which makes me VERY VERY HAPPY.

I think the $20.00 dresser turned out nicely and 

Todd did a good job on the bottom to make

it look similar to the other dresser. 

I still have to choose some new knobs and I think a darker 

metal will add a little punch in here.

We hung the drapes temporarily but I took them down

to let enough light in for the picture.

I had purchased a new bamboo blind that you can

get a blackout liner for but I  returned it after I 

figured out it would be much cheaper

to  keep our existing bamboo blind and

line my curtains myself or make my own 

blackout liner for our existing blind.

Tomorrow after grocery shopping,

 I am aiming to finish painting the remaining three walls 

and hopefully the trim (I will have to pace myself as last weekend 

I ended up running myself down prepping everything). 

I also need to finalize the blue bed wall  as I left it until

the furniture was in to see how it looked and now

when I walk into the bedroom I think it's

starting to feel like a seaside resort.

Have you ever colour blocked one wall in a room? Were you happy with it

or did you find it too jarring and needed all the walls to be the same colour?

I'm not a fan of the usual track lighting but a while

back I fell in love with these and had them installed in 

my kitchen display area at work as it desperately needed extra lighting.

 I knew they would

be perfect in our hallway upstairs

 (which has been without any lights to speak of for years now) 

but at $75.00 a pop could not afford them.  

So with me being both stubborn and cheap

I have been allowing us to fumble around in a semi dark hall

lit by a single lamp plugged into one of the

bedrooms, 

that is until today! When I found out these brushed nickel 

traditional looking beauties

were being discontinued and on sale for a mere $19.00 

it was well worth the 2 1/2 hour drive east to another store 

to pick 3 of them up. One was the display

and so I don't even have to buy bulbs for it.

SWEET!

Our upstairs hall needs a ton of work and we can't 

agree on what to do but at least we can finally have 

some pretty lights to look at.

Have a super duper weekend!

hugs

Sandra