$10 Room Makeover

A few Sundays ago we decided to get serious about a project we had been talking and talking about but had seen no action. We have a spare room upstairs that is small but gets beautiful sunlight and has a very cozy, nooky feeling about it. We haven't utilized the space though and have been using it as storage/playroom/closet. Taking inventory of what we had stored in our basement we realized that we could turn our upstairs room into something pretty nice, certainly better than it was! We hauled out the old dressers and bought some inexpensive storage racks from IKEA that fit within the closet. From the basement we brought up an old book case, a chair, a rug, and ottoman. I sewed a pretty slipcover for the ottoman from on tablecloth I recently bought at an antiques store. The floor pillows were ones we already had, I just gave them new covers sewn from old woolen blankets. We moved around some decorative items like plants and pictures and vases and within an afternoon had a redecorated room ready to be used and enjoyed.

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