The un-proffessional way of staging a bedroom

Let's get this out in the open. In no way do I think that I'm some brilliant designer, stager, decorator of the stars. But, I know that when your open house is 1 pm the next day and your bedroom looks like this:

Hello, my name is BLUE and I just threw up in your bedroom.

(Okay, it didn't quite look like this. We don't sleep on a bed quite as....crackhouseish. But, in the middle of me taking the sheets off I said.. "Blog post!" And, put them barelyback on. There I said it. I staged an ugly room. :) Only to re-stage it to be pretty.)


Onward.

Ew. That is all.

That basket right there? Filled with un matched socks, how do we even have socks to wear? Seriously? I must spend millions just on matching socks. Oh right, the room.

I've mentioned before that my bedroom was the ugliest room EVER. I meant those words ya'll! For the time being it was a catch all. What people are coming over? Eh throw it in the bedroom. Oh, laundry? Let's put it in the bedroom, 'cuz, who puts their laundry in the LAUNDRY room?



Okay, I'll quit hating on my bedroom, she could have potential right? I really want to re paint, get new lighting, a gorgeous pottery barn duvet and some Egyptian cotton sheets. Well, money doesn't grow on trees and as long as I'm secretly buying 100.00 pillows for the living room, it wasn't going to happen. I'd love for our bedroom, the smallest room in the house to be a priority but it just wasn't. But for staging purposes today, darn it it's going to be.




So I have 95.00 to work with. Ahem, yeah. I know right? What a JOKE. But the man's got me on lock down I tell ya!! ;) So I went to K-Mart, the only place I know that will sell me a decent looking bedroom comforter for under 100.00.



Well, Kmart provided. It's not perfect. A little scratchy. Not the colors I'd want for my bedroom, but you know what? For 49.99, it's doing it's job. It was cheep enough for me to splurge on two extra pillows AND some bath towels!





No money for a headboard. But, I had this picture in the garage since I was 18, and I mean, everyone likes water right? Okay, well for today. Like I said, anything it worked.


I took the seashells from my living room, and put them on the dresser here. Uh, yeah that star fish was in the middle of the shadow box- so pretend it still is. He took a fall. :)

Took LB1's art pieces and put them here.

To secretly cover up the nail holes from where our wedding pictures were!

And voila! A bedroom fit for a open house! :)

For UNDER 75.00.

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