The first thing she wanted done was her bedroom. I wanted to decorate her front porch area, but more on that later. We went to IKEA and found extra tall dark tan curtains for $14 and purchased an inexpensive white metal curtain rod from Walmart. The next step was to hang the curtains on the rod near the ceiling crown molding on the wall opposite the bedroom door. She has a great antique metal headboard that blended into the cream colored wall. Once we placed the headboard in front of the new curtains, it was so much easier to see. Plus, the curtains gave a very feminine grown-up air to the room. We pulled all the brown and blue pillows that she had and used them to decorate the bed along with a cream colored puffy blanket she found at IKEA that matches the bedskirt. A rug and a chair from the living room along with a cute shallow bookcase rounded out a reading corner.
She had purchased the nice leopard print lamps from Hobby Lobby at 75% off and is looking for a simple bench to put at the end of the bed. We moved her large dresser to the left wall where her desk had been. The desk was moved to the living room where it became a base for her TV which we positioned in the corner. Two leather stools were put under the desk to fill in the space and to provide extra seating for guests.
Unfortunately, the cable was on an odd wall so we had to run it under the front door and under the window to the corner. It refused to lay quietly at the baseboards, so we purchased some cable staples so no one would trip over the unsightly cable. They were easy to tap in to the baseboard with a hammer. It looks so much better.
The last thing we did was to gather up all the cords behind the TV with twist ties. I taped them to the back of the desk with clear packing tape. Neat and tidy!
More to come: Unique light fixture and "wallpaper"
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