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The Flip: Staging Sources for the Master Bedroom

January 18, 2011 By Liz - It's Great To Be Home 10 Comments

Thanks for your awesome feedback about the master bedroom! Staging it was a fun project to tackle since I kind of got to pretend like it was my own home and add in some things that I’ve been lusting after, like the upholstered headboard and frame. (I want to steal it!!)

Here are the sources we used for staging (with links where possible and while they last):

upholstered and tufted queen-sized bed frame – World Market, Draper Upholstered Headboard in Oatmeal (P.S. I just saw that furniture is on sale up to 50% off at World Market until the 23rd!)
duvet cover & shams – Pottery Barn, Grand Embroidered Duvet Cover & Shams in Porcelain Blue
8 x 10 blue chenille rug – Pottery Barn, Chenille Mat in Porcelain Blue
tray-topped nightstands – Overstock, Tray Top Bunching Table Set (actually end tables that are part of a set along with the coffee table seen here)
silver-based lamps – Home Goods
starburst mirror – Michael’s, Christmas present from my mom
zebra pillow – Bed Bath & Beyond, Safari Animal Zebra Printed Placemat in Brown, DIY’ed into a pillow (see below)
pendant with drum shade (not pictured, but you can see it here) – Overstock, Indoor 6-Light Classic Chrome/White Shade Chandelier
greek key sheet set (not pictured) – Garden Ridge
duvet insert – Ikea, from my home

And here’s all I needed to make that cute little zebra pillow out of the placemat I scored from Bed Bath & Beyond for only $3.99:

That’s just the placemat, a seam ripper, fabric glue and some pillow stuffing – talk about an easy project! (If you’re interested, click here for another post where I DIY’ed some placemats and napkins into pillows using a sewing machine instead of fabric glue.)

Anyhoo, that’s it for the staging sources! If I left anything out or you have any questions, hit me up in the comments!

The Flip: The Master Bedroom, Then & Now

January 17, 2011 By Liz - It's Great To Be Home 28 Comments

So far we’ve toured the great room, dining room, laundry room, and the jack ‘n jill bathroom – next up is the master bedroom!

Here’s how it looks now after a few tweaks and some staging:

And here’s how it looked when we bought it at the end of September:

The room is a great size and had a vaulted ceiling, so that was a great starting point. In addition to new paint, crown molding, bamboo floors and a few other upgrades, we also closed off two doorways – the sliding doors leading to the enclosed patio (which has since become part of the great room) and a door to the master closet (there is another entrance through the bathroom so the second door was overkill). Closing off the doorways gave the room a lot more usable wall space, which I always think is a great thing!

Here are a few more shots of the finished master bedroom:

How’d it turn out?

Homebody Query: Pillow Talk

April 19, 2010 By Liz - It's Great To Be Home 12 Comments

It was awesome – when I got back in town last night our house was perfectly clean from top to bottom and our bed was beautifully made. It looked a little something like this:

I can’t tell you the last time our bedroom {and house} looked that great! The hubby earned at least 14 gold stars for that cleaning bonanza.

But it turns out he had an ulterior motive – he’s trying to persuade me to leave ALL the pillows on the bed at night . . . yes, all 8 pillows. I’ll give you a sec for that to sink in.

Why, you might be asking, does he want to sleep with 8 pillows on the bed? Well, he discovered while I was gone that sleeping with a ginormous number of pillows is like sleeping on a cloud and that it’s easier to make the bed when all the pillows are already on it when you wake up in the morning. Gee, what a time-saver.

I must admit that he does have a slight point – we normally have a huge pile of pillows on the floor at the foot of our bed for days {or weeks} at a time before we get around to making our bed and it looks pretty terrible {it turns out we definitely have some slob tendencies}.

Anyway, I agreed to give it a whirl last night and I am not persuaded. I think it’s too crowded in there! What about you guys – do you like a bounty of pillows, or are you a strictly one-pillow-per-person household?