Decorating this place is becoming like a scavenger hunt! I'm starting to really enjoy this because I have to admit this place is really starting to come together and we don't have much money at all in the furniture.
Last night my husband comes home with two bedside tables he found in the dumpster. People can be so lazy! The only thing wrong with these tables is someone broke the inside bottom of the drawers. It's an easy repair and my husband is going to bring home some wood to fix them with next week when he gets paid. The other thing is they are a little beat up. That's also not a problem with a little spray paint. Now I've just got to decide on a color. (probably antique white) Even the hardware on the side tables are nice. I'm thinking I'm going to place those in the front bedroom that I rent out furnished. When I paint them the antique white they will match the dresser in there. Then I'm going to take the antique bedside lamp out of my room and place it in there because it will match perfectly. Then the only upgrades left in the front bedroom will be some bifold doors on the bathroom doorway and some new curtains. Oh! and lefts not forget some artwork on the walls but I've got some great artwork in storage at my mother in laws that will go perfectly in the room. Problem is my mother in law is in another state so that will have to wait.
As for the back bedroom. I had had plans to make it into a colleges student's hangout pad because we have so many college students renting rooms in the area but now I've got someone interested in it that doesn't need it furnished. The plan was to put a twin bed in there, small computer desk, and I currently have a sofa in there. Then there are built in shelves in the closet so I was going to DIY some nice boxes for their clothes instead of taking up room with a dresser. However those plans can wait and I do have storage if I find these items cheaply while the rooms is rented out.
As for our room, it's still a hodge podge of mess. That's fine with us though. We kind of like the mix matched shelves full of books and such. The only thing I would like in there though is a sitting area and there isn't enough room right now. I have talked to my husband about fixing that though. See there is a bedroom door on each side of our room, then two closets (one on each wall) and the furnace closet. So doors take up 80% of our wall space and 95% if you include windows. What I would like to do is remove the closet doors on one of the closets and put up curtains. Then the bedroom door that is beside it I would like to shut and lock that door and put a chair in front of that door. That door leads to the kitchen. We don't have to have that door. We can do like everyone else and go through the hallway. Then my husband keeps protesting taking down the closet doors that are crappy sliding doors that I personally hate! We shall see who wins this fight. After all it's my closet, not his.
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