When we moved into our house, I decided to position our bed on the only wall where it would fit. Since then we've furnished the adjoining sitting room with a loveseat, TV and some workout equipment. I thought it'd be nice to be able to view the TV from our bed and connect a phone to the phone jack on the other side of the room, but the bed would not fit on the wall between the windows on that wall. I'd been brainstorming about window treatments that would make the bed look okay in front of the windows, but thought I'd wait until we got new bedroom furniture. Well, now that I've decided to quit my job to go back to college to study interior design, it's not likely that we will be getting new furniture anytime soon. We'll just have to hang on to the ornamental bed that we purchased with our company discount, my husband's dressers from when he was a kid, my first sofa, the bedside tables I picked up at a garage sale and various other items that I've recycled for members of my family. So, I decided to look for an inexpensive way to create a nice backdrop for our bed. My search led me to Big Lots where I found two sheer panels and two solid taupe panels for $26! Here are the before and after pictures of my room. Please note that the only new items in the room are the curtains. This just goes to show that you don't have to spend alot of money to "redesign" a space. I'm so pleased with the way it turned out, I'm not sure that I would get new furniture if I could afford it! Now I just need to convince my husband to let me paint since we've lived with the new construction paint for a few years. :-)
Charissa Robinett, Student ASID & IIDA
INTERIORS by Charissa - Joplin, MO
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