A bedroom remodel

So I decided that this year, we will re-do our bedroom. It seems that since we've been in this house, we tend to re-do about one room a year. Last year was the downstairs basement (remember that "simple project"?). The year before it was our family room. And the year before that it was both of our spare bedrooms - well one was Hannah's nursery. Oh, wait, now that I count back the years, I guess we missed a room in 2006 because we had to have done the spare rooms in 2005 BEFORE Hannah got here! OK, I guess we didn't do a room that year. But the first room we had done was our living room and it kind of needs a freshening up already, so it's high time to do our room since it's never been done!

Here's what we're starting with:

(I'm glad I remembered to take before pictures, because I usually remember 3/4 of the way through demolition!)

Our room isn't that big, which sort of stinks, but it's what we've got. We bought our bedroom suit when we first moved in and I still really like it. It's gained a few scratches over the last 5-1/2 years, but nothing terrible. The one crappy thing is that our dresser has a mirror and the mirror covers one of our two windows, so we don't get much natural light in the room. And there really aren't any other alternative ways to arrange the furniture that we have, so I guess we're stuck with that.

This is the view from our hallway outside the room

We plan to hang a new white door and get rid of the '80's brown door.

This is from the doorway into the room.

I'm not sure yet what I'll do with the windows. I'm sure I'll replace the cheap plastic mini-blinds, but I'm not sure with what just yet.

This is our bed & night stands

Are you noticing the "nothing is on the walls" theme? Yeah, that sort of seems to run rampid through most of the house. I guess I'm not good at accessorizing that way. I'm trying to improve.

This is the view from our bed to the front of the room and the amoire

Love the rubbermaid tub that's been sitting there for about 3 years....guess it's time to get rid of it since I don't wear the clothes that are in it.

And this is our hideous closet.

Until last winter, we did actually have doors on this closet, but they became a huge problem, so we opted for the hilbilly look and ripped them down. This is a HUGE reason for choosing this room this year...it's becoming unsightly! I plan to re-organize the whole thing and add doors once again!

We also have navy blue carpet in there that has to go as well as we will replace all of the woodwork with more up-to-date trim.

I decided that I don't want to knock this out in like a weekend or even a week or two like I normally do, but rather spread it out over the summer so it doesn't seem so labor intensive and also not so costly all at once. I decided that I'd pick bedding first so that I can have some colors to work with. I ordered some online last night from an online place called Linen Bargains. I like the picture and what you get in the set and the price was great, so I'm axious to see what comes to find out if it was really a deal or not. I should have it early next week. Here's the picture of the bedding:

The colors are supposed to be sage, chocolate, ivory and beige...I sure hope that's what we get because I like the color scheme.

If this is a keeper, we'll probably paint a light sage green, but that's not totally decided yet.

I guess my first task at hand to get this project going is to tear off the border that currently is pasted at the top of the walls. Then I suppose I'll have to get the ceiling painted and start priming and painting the walls. I will want to do the closet reorganiziation project in there some place as well. We'll pick out carpet, window treatments and paint the new woodwork and door. Oh, what fun this summer will be!!!! But it will be worth it to have a nice space to turn into every night!!