What's New With You, Room?

As my winter break starts to end, I think about everything I have done for the past month. The holidays, the  number of coffee dates with old friends, with new friends, the annoying amount of times calling for my misbehaved pugs to come inside, running up and down stairs only to do it again because I have forgotten something, and the projects I've worked on.

What kind of projects? Oh, just little ones like taking over my sister's old room and painting it, as well as painting my dresser and truck. Not to mention moving everything into the room and arranging it perfectly to my desire. Seems like I have time enough to do it because after all, I do have a month to finish it. Or at least that is what I thought. I guess I didn't take into account that one of the weeks is during holidays, and that I would be super busy. After all the holidays and wanting some time to relax, I have found that doing my project was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be, but guess what? I did it anyway.

Redoing my room was bound to happen anyway, so I decided that now was the best time to do it. I didn't want to keep living in a pre-teen room which I admit that it kind of was. I had outgrown my room and it was time for a change; however, I forgot one tiny fact. I am a poor college student. Where would I get the money to completely change my room? It wasn't going to be my parents that was for sure. Earlier in the year, I started thinking about ideas for it, and I was able to find some stuff that I would want in my bedroom. So, how did I get those things even though I am broke? I requested them for my birthday and then for Christmas. See? Problem solved!

I did end up paying $60 for the paint, but it was well worth it!

I had found a comforter that I loved and instantly knew that it would work in the space! The trunk below was a nasty yellow-green color, and now is a pretty grey (I painted it). To show off the room well, I decided that it was best to go simple here because it is such a pretty color and my bedroom is tiny.

To keep the room flowing, I also painted my dresser (which needed to be sanded down before hand. It took a couple of days to finish this.)

I still need to find handles that I like for it though. Sadly I threw the old ones away a long time ago. Word from the wise, don't do that.

After finishing this project, I realized that maybe I have a skill at this. Then I thought maybe I should have a show on HGTV. But it wasn't even a minute later that I decided against it. Obviously I had a great time getting all of this done and a sense of accomplishment afterwards, but I wouldn't want to do this again anytime soon.

So, I guess that is basically all I did this winter break. Not very exciting for most, but definitely amazingly exciting for me. I mean it's not everyday that a girl gets a new room.