Bedroom Makeover (for free!)

I was sick of not having enough storage space in our bedroom. I can't fit everything on the shelf that I need to and it drives me crazy because we have a HUGE closet. Why can't I fit everything in this HUGE closet? -_-

Well, let me tell you. The hubby thought it was necessary to put BOTH dressers in the closet because our bedroom isn't very bit. Well, we couldn't fit both of them in there so he insisted that HIS go in the closet. -_- I don't think so. I had no where to put all our shoes. Our apartment only has 3 closets. One is a dedicated pantry and the other is full of home improvement type stuff (tools, light bulbs, etc.-- things we don't want to have to go down the hall to storage for) and all our pet stuff. I still haven't found a place for our vacuum cleaner. I'm also not 100% positive I like where my desk is. I'm thinking about moving it. But that will have to be a project for another day.

So, here is what our bedroom kind of looked like before the make-over. (And no, that's not to scale! I forgot to take a "before" picture! Haha!)

So, first on the list? I had to move the bed! I turned the bed so the head of it was against the window leaving plenty of space for the extra dresser.

I also moved that dresser of his out of the closet! I even have our internet router and modem hiding behind that cute little moose! I have have space for maybe a chair and a little reading nook later?

So, what did this do to my closet? Well it freed up space for all the extra bed linens and we were both able to hang out all our pants and some of our sweaters and sweatshirts. I even has space for my purses that I can't put away into storage, because I use them almost every weekend when I go out!

I LOVE our closet. But my favorite part? I have lots of pretty jewelry. It's not necessarily expensive, but since we don't have any wall art yet (I plan on shopping/preparing that as soon as I get a part-time job) I wanted to display my jewelry in a way that will be both artistic and help me locate my favorite pieces and know what I have.

It's really simple. Just take a cork board and use push pins to hang your lovelies!

Everything that I used, I already had on hand. It only took me about 90 minutes to re-arrange the room and put everything in it's place. I plan on adding a chair next to the bed for us to sit and read and also some additional storage in the closet. I want to add a rather large piece of wallart over the bed and another one over Will's dresser that can highlight some of his things. (Maybe a cork board that he can attach his hats to?) And hang some pictures of us in the fabulous picture frames we got for our wedding!

Actually, I think I'm going to go tackle hanging up that "S" somewhere right now...