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Mastering the Master Bedroom!

Let's talk Bedroom today. We had a lot of DIY action in the Living Room last week, and there's a little more in the bedroom where we were going for a contemporary boho vibe. Again the color palette was black and white, raspberry and touches of salvaged wood and mixed metals. This room is really fun, and we had a ton of fun doing it! 

We had to paint right away. This room started out blue with all of my knick knacks everywhere. We wanted to clean it out and freshen it up. So of course we painted. Here's my old bedroom:


We still wanted the crisp white in the bedroom, but not everywhere. We both like color, and the raspberry that we were going for would be a nice contrast with the white walls. The thing was, we were tired of the typical accent wall. It's been done, and even in our own living room! So to add a little flavor, we wrapped the color around the corners, and ombre'ed it into the white! It has a cool almost tie-dye effect. Check out the process. 


The last DIY in the bedroom for today was our faithful little nightstand. You may remember it from this transformation. It went from brown wicker, to yellow sunshine, and then finally to black and off white in the latest design! He's been through a lot, and I love him. ;)



We're getting close!! The only thing we had left was the guest room. We didn't really get new pieces in there. It was a mini version of the old apartment. All of the girly pink stuff went in there, and we just took a break on it. It was still cute, but not necessarily what we were going for with the rest of the apartment. Here is the reveal of the guest room!



Pretty cute! BUT, in the next blog everything gets turned all around. And happy accidents made the turn for the better I'd say! I'm super excited to write the next one because it is a recent project- we're actually still not even completely finished! Stay tuned!!!...

Love,
Teri




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