Bedroom Transformation: getting items on a budget

How to get brand name items on a budget:

-Look at sales & ads.  Depending where the item is that you want to purchase.  I am not a pro, I would be patient for the item I was certain I wanted and would check online.

-Second hand.  Check out local goodwills and second hand stores to see if they might have your item there.  Go back again, find out when they get certain items and when those tags go on sale.

-Budget for it.  That way, if you wait and save for it, it means you really want it or know it is worth it.

Backstory on our bedroom transformation: I am obsessed with the color yellow and found that Target has a whole line just for me.  Well, probably not just for me, but I can feel that way.  The Threshold Target brand.  I have been wanting to change our bedroom colors for awhile now and have been obsessing over the yellow and grey color scheme.  Our bedroom walls were a neutral brown and a very bright lime green.  Our wedding colors were dark mocha brown and lime green and I had wanted a lime green wall since we got married in August 2009.  We lived in over 4 apartments from 2009-2011 and I never got the chance to paint one.  We had the lime green curtains and brown down comforter covers.  Well, when we moved into our new home in June 2012, I finally got to paint a wall lime green.  Once it was painted, I immediatley, regretted that decision.  But the stubborn and cheap person I am, had left it.  It is very bright, and I was afraid to put anything on the walls for a long time, so that did not help ease the color.  But now, I got my lime green fix and needed a change.  It has been slowly, since we are still on Dave Ramsey Budget and my furniture/house decorating fund is only $15.00 a month.  You might be thinking, what the heck can you buy for that?  Not much, but you see, I have to wait and really want something bad enough and save each month.  So after 4 months I have $60.00.

The lime green wall and brown duvet cover.  

 

Brown curtain against lime green wall.  

Lime green wall touches the subtle brown wall.  Luckily, I only had one lime green wall.

 I was able to get my grey/cream chairs when they were on sale at Fred Meyers.  That was my first purchase with the furniture budget.  It took a LONG time lol.  But it was worth it, instead of buying cheap things each month, I save and really ask myself, is this worth it?  And those chairs were.

My dad helped me pick them up in his truck at Fred Meyer.

Rudy really loves the chairs too.

Above: Target Threshold brand yellow quilt from the Goodwill.

Now, I have been drooling about Target's Threshold brand, but was like, no way can I afford it.  I was at the goodwill and they had the comforter above, but in a quilt for $11.00 dollars.  Technically, it was $20.00, but there was some sale going on with the color tag it was and I was so excited.  It was used, but not abused and I had been looking for a quilt for our bed.  Our down comforter gets so hot with Sean and I, especially in the spring and summer.  But all the quilts I looked at where at least $60.00 and I was not willing to pay that.  And the waiting and also searching paid off.  I got it and it was from Target!!! And the Threshold brand in yellow.  I searched online to see what the original price was and they do not sell it anymore!  I also found a yellow panel curtain the same day and it was half the cost of the Threshold brand in Target (the exact same one, but at the goodwill, score!).  I now had one panel and needed three more.  So with my $15 a month budget, I had some saved and had to wait one more month to get the other three and my bedroom was starting to transform.


Paisley yellow Threshold Target curtains.

I would randomly (or maybe twice or three times a week) look online at Target to see if the duvet cover for the Threshold brand ever went on sale.  And persistence pays off as I was on there and it was $15 off one day, I checked with my furniture budget, and husband since I needed more money to pay for it and we purchased the duvet.  I even got an extra $10 target gift card for buying it.  I did borrow some money from my personal spending money, because I was so excited and had to have it.  So, our bedroom was officially decked out in yellow paisley Threshold Target brand curtains, and two bedspreads.

Duvet cover from Target with Rudy checking it out:

Transformation from Lime green to Grey:

 The grey is more of a brown/grey which fits with the other three brown walls.  The color is Sherwin Williams fawn brindle.  I found a $10 coupon online if you spent over a certain amount on the Sherwin Williams website.

Finally, my bedroom is finished and I love it.




Thanks for stopping by!


-Hayley