This Cozy Bedroom Makeover Has a Clever IKEA Hack Hiding in Plain Sight
In the most talented DIYers’ homes, there are so many DIYed details it’s tough to count them all. That’s true for Claire Champion (@charnwoodtowers) home. The entire home is chock-full of budget-friendly transformations and IKEA hacks, including in this sage green bedroom.
The spare bedroom, which is actually an addition to the bungalow home, has several clever projects. Claire calls the addition a “lovely blank canvas,” on Instagram, and here’s how she personalized it.
The walls got a sage green and “wood” makeover.
When Claire moved into the home, she painted the walls sage green (Little Greene’s Windmill Lane), and on two of the walls added wood “slats” that are actually wallpaper. Claire scored her wallpaper on sale for about $10 per roll.
“Our bedrooms are in the eaves of our house, which makes for interesting painting and wallpapering challenges,” Claire says on Instagram. “Gotta love those diagonals!”
There’s an IKEA dresser hack.
Speaking of wallpaper, Claire decided to use some leftover leaf-print wallpaper she had to give her old IKEA MALM dresser a bit of a glow-up, too. (The MALM four-drawer dresser has since been discontinued, but the STORKLINTA is similar.)
“I reckon most of us have one of these IKEA drawers in our house somewhere, and they just cry out to be upcycled,” Claire says on Instagram. She says giving it a fresh look was simple. She used Mod Podge to do it. That pattern matching was painstaking, but she’s proud of how it turned out.
On a wall you can’t see in the photos, she also painted a store-bought dresser to give it a more personal look. Her overall advice from this bedroom makeover is: “Don’t let a small budget get in the way of your decorating ambitions,” she says, adding that it’s easier than you’d think to transform a room “with a bit of imagination, paint, and paper.”
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