We have been busy working on a $100 makeover for the Boy’s Bedroom. And somehow it’s Reveal Week. I don’t know how that happened, but I do know I’m not quite done yet. OOpps! Where does the time go?
This Bedroom makeover has been part of a fun Blogger challenge called the $100 Room Challenge. What’s that? Well, the $100 Room Challenge is hosted by the lovely Erin of lemonslavenderandlaundry.com
Erin started this challenge as a way to decorate and make real changes in her own home on a very tight budget. You can read her story here. The rules are simple: One Room. One Month. $100. Now that is a design challenge that anyone can do. It just takes a little creativity and a little time.
Here is what you may have missed:
While I am not ready for a full Reveal, I have made some progress to show you all. You can see where we started and other $100 Bedroom posts below.
- Week One- The Ugly Before Bedroom
- Week Two- The Boy’s Bedroom
- Week Three- Projects, Details, and Budget
My First $100 Room- Our Tiny Bathroom
For more fun, you can check out all of the posts from my first $100 Room Challenge, where I worked on our tiny Bathroom with the links below:
- Am I too late? I don’t think so!
- The Shopping is Done!
- DIY Pom-Pom Curtains
- DIY Stenciled Artwork
- What happens when the Design plan changes
- The Bathroom is Refreshed!
A Young Man’s Bedroom
My 22-year-old son, also known as the Boy- agreed to let me work on his bedroom for this challenge, and he has thanked me more than once for the small changes that we made. These small projects have made such a big impact on his space. I am so thankful that I could do this for him.
Project: Get mattress off the floor with a Bedframe
Cost: $0
The Boy’s bed had been on the floor- both the mattress and the boxspring. When we moved here he was not interested in getting a new bed frame. This spring his sister, the Girl- got herself a new bed frame, so he got a new-to-him-hand-me-down metal bed frame. Win-Win!!
Project: Gallery Wall to fill space above the bed
Cost: $24.49
This is the largest wall in the room and before there was no artwork here at all. To add interest to the room we decided on a Gallery Wall of collected items.
We started the gallery wall using a few pieces of artwork that the Boy already owned. The Picasso print, the skeleton poster, and the US map were all pieces he already had either in the room before or in storage.
We only bought a couple of items here:
A lightweight black frame for the Podcast signed poster- $16.99
A small letterboard complete with a Star Wars quote- $5
Two vintage license plates from an estate sale- $2
Black thrift store frame filled with Lego bricks we already had- .50 cents
Total- $24.49
Project: Headboard for the bed
Cost: $0
The headboard is one of the projects for the makeover that is not yet fully complete. But we put it in here to show where the look we are going for with it.
When we were coming up with the design plan the Boy didn’t know what kind of headboard we could do on such a small budget. I found a lot of inspiration on Pinterest and we came up with a DIY pallet headboard. Now, I think a pallet headboard is something that every young man could get behind. And it was FREE! I got the pallet from my day job at a mail-order food business. Since the pallet was used to ship food- it was heat treated and is food safe. Not treated with chemicals. Very important when working with pallets. We still have plans to sand, and stain it. Soon I hope…
Project: Curtains made from old denim jeans
Cost: $0
These curtains took so long to make! But I think they were so worth it!
I had all of these old jeans in my stash to upcycle, so no money was spent to buy material for new curtain panels. The only cost of these curtains was time- time to cut the jeans apart, then time to cut the jeans into same width strips, then more time to piece them back together. I decided to do a slight ombre- light to dark pattern. Both the Boy and I LOVE them! We think they look super cool and they act as black-out curtains. Which the Boy loves the most. There was even enough denim leftover that I was also able to make a pillow sham for the bed.
I still need to line and hem the curtains, but they’re hung up for now and look so cool!
Project: Paint Walls a medium Gray color
Cost: $9
I found a miss-tint can of paint at the hardware store and saved more than $20 at least! You can read all about the wall paint in this post here.
Project: Coat Rack
Cost: $9.54
We needed to make a spot for the Boy to hang up a few items and keep them off the floor. A Mom can hope, and a Mom can dream…
Anyway, we sanded and stained a scrap piece of wood from the garage. ( See that bent nail in the lower corner of the board? I love that part! )Then we added 3 black metal coat hooks from the hardware store. Each was $3.18 x 3 = $9.54 that plus a little bit of time. Not a bad price for a coat rack with personality.
The Budget So far:
Gallery Wall- $24.49
Bedframe and Pallet headboard- $0
Wall Paint- $9
Coat Rack- $9.54
Total= $43.03
That’s all I got for where we are at in this post. In Part Two we will cover how we upgraded a cheap bookcase for under $30.
Check out all of the other $100 Room Challenge Reveals by my lovely Blogger Friends below!
