My Bedroom Makeover...The Transformation, The Update, Can you say VA VA VA VOOM :)

Well I know you have all been on pins and needles just WAITING for this post ;) well maybe 2 of you that I know are checking and waiting...I have finished my bedroom make over and I LOVE IT!!!! My bedroom makeover has a story to tell so since this is my blog, I am gonna share it :)

Well the "MakeOver" all began back in January. You see Leonard & I were sleeping on an OLD worn out 10 year old queen mattress and every day I would wake up with major back pain cuz of good old faithful A.K.A. - Our hammock - which looks like a bed. This poor mattress has needed to be replaced well over a year ago, but I was trying to hold out as long as possible cuz a new bed meant - new room...bedding, decor...you get what i am getting at. I was trying to be kind as save my poor hubby some $$$. But the time finally came Leonard was tired of me whining and complaining of my back pain and we started bed shopping. We fell in LOVE with a King Size Tempurpedic Mattress. WE HAD TO HAVE IT! So in January Loree became a very happy sleeper again! HOORAY FOR ME!!! Let me tell you I feel like I have an Acre to sleep on now compared to our tiny queen size bed. I really like the space but Leonard says he misses me. And that I am too far away. Sorry :) But I do Sleep REALLY GOOD! It is a pricey mattress, but it is worth every penny to wake up rested. SOOOOO, getting a new bed means new bedding and all the fixings! YAHOO FOR ME!!! So shopping, searching and buying and returning and creating I have been and I have loved every minute. If you know me, I LOVE a good project! I am sooo thankful to my great friends and all their wonderful opinions and help. I needed it :) Now on to the TRANSFORMATION...oh by the way click HERE to see a few before shots of my room. I had a blog post about it a few months ago.

My FAVORITE part of our room is This GORGEOUS Bed!!! I love it like crazy. I wanted to have a elegant and Black headboard. When I saw this piece at Ashley Furniture. I knew this was the ONE. It took almost 2 months for it to be shipped to me. It was hard to be patient, but worth the wait. I was only going to order the headboard, but my mom talked me into getting the whole SHABANG, so I did and I am so glad. While I waited for the Headboard to arrive, I searched for the perfect bedding that would suite this furniture, my taste & a bedding that would go well with my red walls, since i didn;t want to repaint. Leonard is very very happy about this decision too :)
I love the bedding and I got the pillows at Kirkland's, Ross, & Burlington Coat Factory. They look like they were made for the bed. I think more the pillow the better :)

Here is detail on the headboard after moving all those lovely pillows! Ohhh, I just love it!

More details, I love curly swirly shapes. Definitely my style!

Foot board details. What a mistake it would have been not ordering the foot board.

Close up of the bedding. Black, with golds, reds, greens. So Rich and Elegant...also my style!

Have I motioned that I LOVE HOBBY LOBBY???? Lucky for me there is one right around the corner where I live and boy that place puts a SMILE on my face :) I found the Wall Pics at Hobby Lobby to go over my bed. Now there is a story about the wall above my bed too. You want to know it don;t you? well behind the Key pics you see are big ugly dumb holes in the wall where we put up light fixtures/sconces when we first moved it and ever since I decided I did not want wall lights on my walls, I have had 2 big holes to cover up... see the sconces in the before pics up top. So now with the new room, I still have the same HOLEY problem and trying to find something I like to cover it up has been a frustrating decorating problem to have. Well, Problem solved. I love this collection on pics and I think it compliments the wall and bed and room quite nicely!

The center pic, the main focus painting I love and looks like it was painted just for this bedding perfectly. It has all the same colors and style! I got lucky here. I have been to Hobby Lobby TOO MANY times and never saw the ONE and this one evening I happened to run across it and then I went CRAZY and bought half the store to figure out what would would go with it. SUCCESS!

I especially LOVE the Chair pics! different and fancy like I like it :)

This is the view entering my room.

This Black Scrolly thing was the first item I bought for my room and wanted to find it a home! I love it here!

Looking up at the updated plant shelf. Check our the before shots on the link at the top. anyway I couldn't have done the plant shelf with out my great friend Lisa! She is a decorating PRO!!!

I love the hook board transformation. It was cream and held rose wreaths. I painted it black, aged it with a little gold rub and found these awesome keys and keyhole at guess where? Yep Hobby Lobby!

My little gold table. glad to keep this little bird cage around :)

I loved the gold drapes already hanging in my room but I made a new valance. I loved my old one. It was shaped just like this, but it needed a new look. So give me some fabric & beads and you get a whole new look! I am proud to say I whipped this valance out in a couple hours. Leonard and I hung it up before we went to bed. It was 1 am though! What a trooper i married! Lucky me :)

A little close up! ooh la la!

I found this lamp at HL and had to bling it up a bit by adding some beads. everything looks prettier with beads :)

Another view of the room. Loving the little red couch. Perfect for holding ALL the pillows at night ;)

The Mirror...this mirror has a story too. So if you noticed in the before pics i had a lovely gold mirror that hung over my old bed. well my plan was to move it here over the dresser. I thought it would dress up my country pine dresser and change the look of my room. Well one night, Leonard & I were going to hang the old gold mirror here. While we were measuring and figuring out where exactly this mirror should go, It fell to the floor and smashed into a million pieces. I was in shock! I was so sad and yes I did cry over my destroyed beauty. I did NOT want to find another mirror and PAY for it. I wanted THAT one. I sounded like a little kid crying over some silly balloon that popped or something. I am kind of embarrassed about what a baby I was. But I am over it and happy with the replacement. Many mirrors were bought and returned til i spotted this beauty and all for a great price! HOORAY~

I really LOVE this fancy frame I found at HL!

The plant shelf was really fun to make over, but like i said before I needed my friend Lisa to give me a helping hand. Together, we made it FABULOUS! don't you agree? also thanks to Hobby Lobby for selling such pretty things. I LOVE YOU HL...so does Blake, just ask him.

Love the clock and by the roses is the cutest little bird! Also I LOVE the couch picture!

The last section of the plant shelf. I love the lantern and of course the Golden Z!

Z's Rock!

one last view of the finished product! Check out that picture frame on the cherry armiore.

Yes I made that, yes it was a challenge and no I won't teach a class how to make them. sorry for being so blunt, but it is true. I can tell you how but that is it, don't be offended :) They sell these fancy fabric frames at fancy home decor stores. I decided to copy it and i had some help. And I LOVE IT!!!! I also made one for my front room. I'll post those pics soon.

Here is the final touch for my VA VA VA VOOM, Bedroom Makeover. I love love love it! Thanks for taking the Transformation tour. Come stop by for the real thing. It is prettier in person :)

Onto the next project...Finishing the girls pink & brown room :)