Repurposed drapes.

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You may or may not remember my headboard project here. I am a bad blogger and never gave you any info on how or anything, but I did give you two links in this post so that you could read the tutorials I followed myself.

While I did love my headboard it never looked 'right' with our paint color (boy was that a headache) and I just wasn't IN LOVE with it-until now!

Before I share my photos I want you all to try and appreciate how far our bedroom has come.

It started out like this when we first moved in:

UGHHHHH It makes me cringe. So ugly.

Then it went to this:

Still awful! Our headboard made a big difference on our bed, but look at how those colors clash! My wish for a calming deep gray blue room was killed with the blue crayon-like paint.

We have since painted again and today I recovered the headboard. Also, you know I have been needing a new duvet cover and I finally got one. 

So, you may consider this the official bed and headboard reveal. This photos are as real as it gets too people. It may be hard to tell, but I did absolutely no cleaning up before I took these photos for you ; )

It all started when I found this curtain at IKEA in the 'as is' section for a mere $7.00

You know I can't pass up a good bargain. I had no idea what I would do with this until I got home and then it hit me and I did this:

Ahhhh....you have to love stripes!

If that still isn't doing it for you though I think my models really made it work:

Sweet brothers:

Yes, that is a toddler with pizza sauce all over his face on my new white duvet. Just another day people.

PS-sorry I didn't make the bed for these pictures, but doesn't it just look WAY more comfy and cozy this way? You know you are dying to climb into that mass of pillows right now! :D