Searching for some new solutions for your bedroom? Take a look at these projects from our house tours. Ideas include DIY artwork, making a pallet bed and building your own closet and nightstand.
1. Hang old window panes
2. Make a pallet bed
3. Create your own collages and frame them
4. Build your own closet
5. Hang wall planters
6. Put jewelry on display
7. Use pegboard behind your bed to add texture
8. Turn an old mantel into a headboard
9. Frame fabric, wallpaper, and notecards for instant artwork
10. Build a bedside table out of scrap wood
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Comments (11)
Here's my contribution - using dollar store picture frames as a border for a child's room, based on the premise that the proper height to hang a picture is eye level, and that's not very high for a child. (Please excuse the incompleteness of the room in general):
picture frame border
What great ideas! I love the idea of using window frames as wall decor. I've seen a ton of DIY headboard ideas, but never a mantle. Very creative!
Does anyone know whether you can really grow ivy from a couple of small pots lush enough to create an ivy headboard of sorts on top of a frame like these windowpanes?
Bummer, i thought these were actually DIYs with instructions. I want to make that scrap wood side table but even from the pic, it's hard to tell how it was constructed.
@CK8GO Seconded!
I like #1 but without the large mirror at the foot of the bed and love all the colorful pictures over the bed in #3.
I would love a pallet bedframe but can't convince my hubby to build me one. He worries about bugs, etc., such a buzz-kill. I really love the idea of using an old mantel for a headboard, but I'm sure he'd find a way to find some horror in that idea as well.
I really like the bed in the corner in that last picture. Looks so cozy!
My husband and I were redoing our guest room recently and did something similar with the old window panes, except we kept the glass and put a little picture (such as vintage postcards) behind each pane to create a whimsical display. I do like the ivy idea though. I was reading on another website about how new sheets can really make a difference. I have heard that Thomas Lee sheets have a really elegant and fresh look but I am not sure. Any suggestions?
Yeah, I was also expecting some instructions here. The links don't even take you to the right pictures in the tours. And I really dread to think what fumes are being off-gassed by that pegboard wall.
I found an old window frame in an alley on my walk home one afternoon, took it home, cleaned it, then went to my local mirror shop and had them cut eight panes for me. Then I used mirror adhesive to glue the mirrors on top of the old windowpane glass. Lastly I secured it to my wall using a system of heavy duty anchors. It looks like I spent a fortune on it at Pottery Barn!