Way overdue.

Yes, this post. But also the not-so-extreme makeover (but makeover nonetheless) that I did on my bedroom. I finally graduated from my college-girl days and revamped my little portion of personal space. There's something about re-doing and color scheming and deep cleaning that makes one feel like a new woman. I finally let go of my twenties. It's one of the only ways in my life right now where it's nice to finally be a grown-up. It only took me until I am nearly 30 to do it. And it only took me three months to post about it. No big deal.


If I could explain my room, as it was, in one run-on sentence it would go something like this:

My room was an embarrassing mixture between a nursery and a circus and was never a place I wanted to take guests because it looked like a 12 year-old lived there and I was afraid circus music would spontaneously start playing every time I opened the door because of all the stripes and colors and orange-ish red light coming from the almost-ten-year-old lamp that gave some of the only light to my room (but that I was grateful for since there is no overhead light) and all my little nick-nacks and picture frames and college-girl stuff that had me endlessly pining for the day when I could afford a room that resembled that of a mature, independent, design savvy woman. Phew...

My computer died and I have been pictureless for quite some time now, so thank goodness for Averi's blog where I was able to steal a couple pictures of my room when we first moved in so that you could see what it looked like before. So without further ado, here are the before and afters of my I'm a Big Girl Now Makeover:

BEFORE. This was taken the first couple weeks after we moved in. The stripes came with the room.

BEFORE. This was on my birthday, about a month before I left for Ukraine. SUUUPER circus-y with the balloons and streamers! Oh, and there's the orange light!!

IN BETWEEN. First things first - got rid of the stripes. I painted the walls Tumbleweed Tan, which turned out to be a lot darker than I was expecting but I love it... Then I cleared out and donated everything from my old room. And got this fabulous rug.

IN BETWEEN. Setting up the bed, shelf, and night stand...

AFTER. Ta Da!! The finished product. New EVERYTHING...

 

Did I mention that I did all of this with this year's tax refund? Oh how I love you, tax money!

 

Anyway, I'm sure no one is even reading my blog anymore since it's been so long since I last posted so I may be talking to myself here. But I just wanted to document one of the minor changes that has happened in my life recently. If anything, I had a good time shopping and re-doing, and using a tiny tiny bit of my design skills. And hey, I sleep much better at night on that dream of a mattress I bought. That along with the fact that I finally feel like a big girl...