The Girl's Bohemian Bedroom (or the It's-About-Damn-Time Bedroom Reveal)

So it's been months since my last post...I miss you guys's faces. Anyway, we started this bedroom journey over a year ago, but given our budget was what I could afford, when I could afford it, and we weren't trying to buy too many new things, we made pretty good time, right? I knew you'd be on my side :D Now, I think this reveal will be done in two parts because of the amount of pictures and stuff to talk about. So in this one, we'll go over the "big picture" and in the next, the smaller details. 

So without further ado....

From the doorway looking in

It's important to know what The Girl's room looked like before. These were taken when we first moved in. Note her unpacked box: 

Awful, right? We replaced the blanket almost immediately, but it didn't quite fit the bed (despite the label on the bedding) and the colors faded after almost the first wash.

New, ill fitting bed set

We started by replacing her bedding again (ignore her terribly made bed), but worked with the furniture she already had. I made her curtain to her [lack of] specifications, the "chandelier" with tie-died paper butterflies, and the canopy. I collected scarfs and hankies and the like to throw over the surfaces early on in the process. And again, in case you forgot already...

Her TV nook (yes, that is the one and only truly outrageous Jem you spy there) and desk take up most of the wall across from the bed. I decided to frame her posters, but finding large enough frames that weren't stupid expensive was really hard, so we're actually publishing this with two posters unframed (it doesn't help that new ones keep appearing). 

From the bed

 

Her Tree of Life wall hanging was a gift from my mother for Christmas (or her birthday??) and hides the door to the storage area above the garage. The cat statue (the one against the wall...not the fat cat...that's Cat) and a bunch of other stuff came from the same shop. It was a place in the mall that sold things from India. The Girl loved that store. It closed in March.

Towards the doorway 

The door is her closet (and proof that her love of 1D hasn't disappeared entirely). The dresser was painted and covered with yet another scarf.

Opposite the window

I purchased some inexpensive rugs and tossed them around the room. I bought cheap baskets in fun colors (or spray painted boring ones) to corral her things. There's one her remotes and another for books, another for her body/hair stuffs and so on.

Enjoying her rugs...and Magic and Psych (we'd had enough of Jem)

 Most of the decorative elements fell into one of two categories: DIY or thrifted. I did purchase a few things new, but we really aimed to achieve a reuse, repurpose, or upcycle kinda thing. I'll go into all of that more in Part 2.