Sweet Dreams

Okay so since we moved in our house we've kind of had decorating our bedroom on hold becausee we were waiting on furniture, then we were trying to find a crate for a nightstand and then we were trying to find a shelf above the bed, all of which took way longer than expected, but it is finally coming together!

First a little reminder of what it looked like when we moved in:

Oh yes the lovely sheets for curtains and blank walls and haphazard furniture arrangement.


After tonight!!! Okay it's not completely finished but it's alot closer. We went in stages on this one, too expensive to do a room makeover in one day!! First we got the roman shades, then Spencer picked out the gray quilt at ikea and I picked out some prints and frames and baskets, then eventually (haha) the furniture came, then we tramped around Tulsa trying to find an antique crate and finally Spencer just decided to build one (more on that later), then I found a way on sale lamp at Pier One after seeing a million ugly or really expensive ones other places, and then we finally found a shelf we liked (which by the way home depot was the way to go on this, way cheaper for a bigger and sturdier shelf) and put it all together tonight:

I still can't get the pillows to lay flat, but whatever :). I think it would require ironing and well I think I've ironed twice since going to college so that is not happening. I love it! It just makes me want to lay in bed all day, ha this could be bad.

Okay and now for a little story on the crate. So yeah you might remember we drove all over trying to find a crate and finally decided we would just pick up crates from a hardware store dumpster and Spencer could build one for mostly free. We didn't pick up quite enough pallates :), so the home depot scrap lumber dept. was our friend also. So Spencer turned the back "sunroom" into his own little workshop, complete with a hole in the wall from where a wood piece went flying in the air and cut his hand and then punctured the wall, and built this lovely crate:

And ta da!! Okay this actually just primed, our real trim paint is on loan to our contractors who finally got our doors! So yes now if you come stay with us (well by next week at least) the spare bedroom will have a door and the bathroom door will actually close all the way without having too be slamed :). And yes we still need a little more scrap lumber to finish the bottom shelf of the crate, but I think it is pretty perfect. Good thing Spencer is good with a table saw!