Accessorizing my room

Most of the big changes had already been done in my room, new bed, new window treatment, new paint color on the walls. NOW I'm working on the final touches. I bought two huge squared picture frames and printed 2 posted size pictures from our Costa Rica trip and put them above my bed!
I'm just waiting on my dad to make me a side table/desk to match my bed and more art on the walls.

New Pillows (for Nancy) and New 42" TV (for Jon)

Fun weekend with my love once again :) We ended January with less money than we made this month... kinda

Saturday Jonathan and I had a nice romantic date with fun and jokes throughout the night :)
Sunday we ran a bunch of couple errands like a married couple. We went to Sam's Club, Bed Bath and Beyond, Costco, Ikea and Target. We had so much fun, making each other laugh and trying to jam a huge tv box into my tiny car.



And I returned the brown pillows that I wasn't too sure of and bought orange world map pillows. At least Jon liked these better than the embroidered ones.


Thanks babes for a fun weekend!

Remodeling My Room - Almost Done!

I am almost done! I am loving the way things are turning out!

Yesterday I bought white matching pillow cases for my 4 pillows, my down comforter, white duvet, curtains, a curtain rod, and decorative pillows (which I'm not too sure of yet). My bed is almost done, just need minor details here and there added to give it some color. My window is done! It's got modern blinds, curtains, and a curtain rod! My walls still need some work. When I went to Ikea yesterday I was tempted to buy the painting from my favorite Showroom model, but decided to wait and buy real art.

Remodeling My Room Pt 3

When Evey was here, she, Kevin and I painted our room: YELLOW! I love it! I am one step closer to getting my room looking like an adults room. I emptied out the bookshelf, took the mini blinds off and the long dirty verticals and I replaced them with new feux blinds!

Thank you Evey and Kevin for all your help that day! I had lots of fun working on this with you two!


Now we just need bedding! I already bought a down comforter and just need the duvet, white king size pillow cases, and wall decoration!
To see the progress of the remodeling click on the remodeling label

Remodeling My Room Pt 2

On Thursday night my parents and I went on a little field trip to Nader's La Popular just to look at bed frames and I ended up buying one! It caught my eye right when we walked in. It is a simple dark wood queen headboard. My dad built and fixed the bed frame Friday night and I got to sleep on my new bed when I got home from work that night.

Things left to do:
Paint the room
Sand the night stand and stain it to match bed frame
Buy big frames
Buy alternative down comforter
Buy duvet

We'll see how money flows and how quickly I can get this done.

Remodeling My Room

Since Jonathan and I decided to live at home with our parents for another year, we decided to go ahead and buy what we wanted/needed to be comfortable in our "room". I want to paint my room and buy a queen size bed, Jon wants a new 42"+ TV.

On Saturday my mom found a mattress factory in the pennysaver and my parents went to go look at it. Their prices and quality were amazing. I ended up ordering a custom made queen, double sided, firm, orthopedic mattress with 25 years of warranty for only $330. The place looks like a hole in a wall place in L.A. but it is 100% legit. I think they may even be a distributor to furniture stores and department stores. For anyone looking for a mattress, the place is called: Dream and Rest Mattress, it's at 5901 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles Ca. 90044.

Now I'm in the process of looking for a headboard. My dad says there are a lot of places in L.A. where they make furniture and we might even be able to custom order one if we don't find something I like. Hopefully we're able to find something soon, I really want a bigger bed soon. My dad is going to build the bed since we want to keep the rolling bed underneath my bed.

I want a headboard similar to this one, I already have my big pillows, I need to buy an alt down comforter, a duvet, bed skirts, sheets, pillow cases, etc... I pretty much still need everything, except the mattress!

Redesigning THIS Room

This room was a complete mess when I first moved in. Everything looked like it was just thrown in the room. Angel's messy desk and huge chair were always on my way, the bed was flipped and toward the wall. I was using a stool as a night stand. Things were bad. This weekend I decided I needed to live in a less cluttered place. My parents took Angel's desk and chair out, Jonathan and I moved my bed around, took my nightstand out from inside the closet, bought a lamp and started to put some of my frames up (instead of my mom's non-matching ones). I think I'm still going to put her pictures up on the wall but I'm going to buy matching frames for them. I wish I had before and after pictures. I want to wait and see if my parents do buy a queen bed that way I can just buy a comforter for that, if not, then I wont invest in that. I'll just save my money. I am thinking of buying a comfy chair though. I want a place to sit and read or just use my laptop without having to sit on my bed. We'll see what I find!

P.S. My presentation is tomorrow and I'm beginning to freak out a little because Marc made me change several things, one of which I don't agree with... he wants me to change my line graphs into bar graphs, which is counterproductive because it does not show the upward trend!!! ahhhhh I can't wait until I get placed!