The $200 Master Bedroom

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Want a room like this? Me too. Most of us tend to neglect the master bedroom. It's usually hidden away where the public won't see it. But you know, it should be your haven. If you are married, I know you long to have a pretty room for you and your man to escape to. But, what if you don't have the money to invest in all new furniture right now? What if you only have a mattress and a box spring? Can you still have a pretty bedroom?

Yes!

The Bed
Let's look at this room starting with the bed. What if you wrap your box spring in a crisp white sheet, put a bed skirt on it or wrap it in fabric? Yes, while it's on the floor. If you want to raise the bed off the floor a bit, you could attach 4 wooden feet into the bottom {found in the unfinished wood section at Lowes and Home Depot} this would lift it off the floor about as much as the bed above for about $10. I know you are all gonna ask me about these feet. Ask the worker at the store about where the furniture feet and legs are.

For the headboard, get you a door and paint it white if you want this look. There are no rules on what color to use. If you are renting and cannot paint your walls you might want some color on your headboard, try a wheat color or a spa blue or what about chocolate brown? Want a free door? Read this post to see how I've found doors before. I would just lean it up against the wall between the mattress and the wall. Hollow, flat doors should be less than $30 if you want to buy one new.
The Bedding
Now, the key to this look is bold color contrasted with the crisp white. If you paint your headboard a color you might want to consider crisp white bedding and a white down comforter. You don't have to go as modern as this, but try some color on the bed if your headboard is white. Maybe you have some bedding already. If not, start saving your pennies. Ask for a new comforter for Christmas. I like Target, TJMaxx and Marshalls for inexpensive yet, beautiful bedding. Get the good sheets. I would rather sleep on a mattress on the floor with great sheets than in a bed in a frame with sheets that feel like sandpaper.

The Walls
For the rest of the room--look above the bed. See all of those white frames? What makes those work? All the different sizes and different shapes in the same color! If you go for a white headboard, then get you all sorts of frames from the goodwill, dollar store, yard sales or your garage {we both know you have some frames somewhere that you can use} and spray paint them. Don't worry about hanging them just so. Look how great these look simply grouped together. They have leaves in these. You could do photos or vintage keys or buttons or fabric or scrapbook paper or anything that you have on hand. There is no wrong.

The Bedside
Lastly, you need you a table and a lamp. Yes, I said need. The table can be any kind of table. Paint it the same color as your headboard and frames. The lamp is so important too. First, overhead light is so harsh and I know you want to look pretty in your bedroom. Secondly, you can read and turn off the light without getting out of bed. Lazy woman's dream. I am always shocked at how many people do not use lamps. Don't even turn that overhead light on unless you lose a contact or something.

The Extra Item that I Love to Have In the Bedroom
I always try to have a chair in the bedroom as well. Shop the house, I bet you have one someplace. It can even be a wooden chair with a pillow on it. Get you some candles and you are finished.

The Breakdown
Door: Free
Legs: $15
Box spring extra sheet or skirt or just wrap some fabric around it: $20 or less
Table: $10 yard sale {I promise you can find tables for $10 I have 3 in my house}
Lamp: $15 {garden ridge, shop the house, Goodwill {do you know you can spray paint a lamp?}}
Bedding: $100 {I know some of you can get this for even less!}
Frames : $10 {use something you have to fill them}
Candles: $5
Paint: $25 {you can use the same color for everything!}

Grand total: $200

If you want to buy just the frame --you don't even have to have a box spring! Check this out!