Another room in our house which has been crying out for some love is our master bedroom. It’s been a slow process. We found a bed probably about a year ago and I thought that would spark a major bedroom makeover frenzy but the decorating bug fizzled when I tried to find bedside tables for our room and came up with…nothing!
I had almost given up hope, when a couple of weeks ago we had gone to Bowral for our anniversary and I thought I’d try to look again for some bedside tables. I looked in all the furniture shops with no success. Then we made our way to an antique store and were looking around for nothing in particular, when I noticed one lonely bedside table which was perfect for our room…perfect I tell you! Why I didn’t snap a photo of this bedside table at this point I don’t really know…it might’ve been that the G-Man was bored/cold and he had ventured outside to stand in the sun and I was busily searching in my bag for my phone to tell him to come back and have a look…anyway the problem was that there was just one. So I thought I’d do another lap of the store and see if I could see anything that would somehow look good with it. That’s when I saw this:
It wasn’t perfect, but it had potential. I said to the G-Man, if they are the same height then we should get them…and they were almost exactly the same height, so they became ours!
So here is the before…I thought I had a better photo of the before, sorry, in my excitement to replace the ugly bedside table with the new I didn’t take any photos of the room before (I’m full of excuses today, aren’t I?).
And after:
The first bedside table didn’t need anything done to it, other than a clean, so that was pretty straightforward. The other one, however, needed a bit of TLC.
The orange and black reminds me of Tigger, you know from Winnie the Pooh?
I thought I’d paint the inside a nice blue colour and the outside a dark chocolatey colour to match our bed and the dressing table which I made-over earlier.
I actually like that they are mismatched, and that they are not new.
There is still plenty to be done in this room, I need to update our tallboy, which is the same style (is that even a style?) as the old bedside tables, and I also need to do something about our lighting…check out our lovely lightbulb!
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A bowl full of lemons
Miss Mustard Seed
Yes!! I love it. Who says that bedside tables have to be exactly the same. I love your style. k
Thanks!
Very nice! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your bedroom makeover x
Let’s hope it doesn’t take a year to do the next thing on the list. That lightbulb must be dealt with!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the tables!!! A bit of elbow grease and you have an amazing product! The furniture of today just does not have the pizazz it had years ago. Plus, it is so much fun hunting for what you want!
Thank you!
I agree, the hunting was kinda fun.
Love the tables , and great idea to not have them the same, but i can’t remember that light bulb, you need to cover that quick , make that your next project
It’s bad, I know! I’m onto it.