Master bedroom re~do

After 4+ years in this house, the tornado that had been constantly whizzing around in our master bedroom has moved on to less~cluttered pastures.

I'm so proud to say that my entire home is finally organized. We've hauled out unused items and totally organized the necessities in each and every room!

While it's by no means magazine-worthy, my master bedroom is prepped and ready for her debut. 

My side of the bed

Closest to the bathroom and the only closet in our room which I have full reign over.   Our nightstands are bombay style chests {purchased at Z Gallerie almost 10 yrs ago} which I painted in a white chalk paint mixture.

My hats get rotated out each season and are usually covered up by my 'always open' closet door with a full length mirror on the inside. As you can see, I created an accessory area to keep my scarves and frequently-worn belts and necklaces within reach for work days when I'm trying to rush out the door.  The large basket holds my 'in season' handbags and the off season are kept inside my closet.

A few short months ago you would've seen a roll rack here with clutter fully surrounding.

More necklaces hanging on the metal cross on top of my nightstand. I have a basket in the top drawer of my nightstand with all of my bracelets.

I keep it simple with perfume, rotating between my all time favorite Hermes d'orange verte, and Escentric Molecules 01 layered with Mediterraneo Carthusia.

 ♥ this picture of my angel baby taken when she was 6 months old.

We will eventually get a head board but it's not a necessity at the moment.  Our headboard wall is painted in Fieldstone by Benjamin Moore.

His side of the bed

This nightstand is typically layered with his laptop and work papers. Not only does poor hubby not have a clothes closet in our room, he also runs 2 successful businesses out of the home without a home office!  I try to be very patient with the countless piles of invoices, receipts and computers strewn about from room to room but it's a challenge. 

The left corner of our room is his 'office' area. The large screen Mac computer with a fax machine and printer hidden away. 

These baskets at the foot of our bed store his dress shoes, my winter boots, and our laundry bags.  We keep the lid to the basket on the right off throughout the week so we can throw our dirty laundry inside. 

We used to keep an ironing board up in our room but in our attempt to de-clutter we purchased this over the door ironing board. You can see the little basket storing our iron and spray starch under the chair.  This ironing station set up works perfectly for us, not beautiful but functional.

A view of the wall opposite our bed.  The photo above was taken before the rug was added {thank you La!!} and with a different console table. We used to have a large bookshelf here filled with books, movies and junk! 

We moved this zinc~ish table from the dining room up here.  We'll eventually mount the tv on the wall and hubby can use this table for his work.  I'd like to find 2 sconce lights to hang on the sides of the tv once it's mounted.  Little one's artwork on the left will of course come down as well. 

The rest of his shoes are stored here in these baskets. 

His closet armoire. 

  

This simple IKEA armoire received quite the makeover during the bedroom re~do.  We don't love it by any means but it's held up well these past few years and hubby needs it.  You'll see in the collage below, I created my own chalk paint mixture and crafted this faux~French armoire based on a photo of a gorgeous antique piece {bottom left}. A template was created using masking tape.  A few coats of paint, some heavy distressing and new mercury glass door pulls and voila~

My current view of the armoire from the disheveled bed. 

Another IKEA piece re~vamped in our 'use what we already have' mode. 

Simple IKEA chest of drawers, Union Jack flag traced in homemade chalk paint mixture {same light gray color as used on the armoire} then distressed heavily.  Little one helped me with this while we watched the olympics {hence the Union Jack idea}.  Not perfect, but better than the before.   

It's so nice to no longer feel anxiety while walking up the stairs, in constant fear of what awaited me in the disaster of a bedroom.  While there are still some things to update {mount tv, purchase a headboard and new table lamps etc...}, it feels good to know that only $50 was spent on our room re~do {$5 door pulls for armoire and $45 on down filled King comforter at foot of bed}. 

I thought I'd leave you with a few "reality" shots of the room.  Even on the worst day {pillows everywhere and dirty clothes spilling out of the hamper/basket}, it's 100 million times better than before! 

Dry cleaning and outfits for work ironed and ready for the week are here on the hook inside my closet door. 

 Unmade bed, half opened blinds, dirty laundry, slippers, pillows...my view as I walked into the room today. But minus 3 rolling racks lining the walls, the ironing board and a 3 foot pile of clothes at the foot of the bed~ life is good, at last! 

A peek into our 1940's blue tiled master bath AND my black hole of a closet, which is actually pretty organized at the moment! What a treat right?!

Whew, I'm tuckered.

xoxo~

Tricia