My daughter and I have been busy working on our new project together.

If you're new or missed the news, you can read about our new adventure and see all the before pictures here: New Rental House Tour.

When I asked her which room she wanted to work on first, she chose the bedroom. So, that's the first room we are tackling.

Read on to see what we've done so far.

Small Loft Bedroom Updates

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Here is a fun video of our progress:

Let's start with a few before pictures of this room.

It's a small room upstairs with an open loft area overlooking the living room right in front of it. It was intended to be a large walk-in closet but my daughter has decided to make it into her cozy bedroom space.

Here it is after painting.

And I know this next picture will have little impact since there's no before picture but this is the window casing and windowsill. It was absolutely caked with mold and bug carcasses 😞

We cleaned it all up and painted the windowsill the same color as the walls. In fact, we painted all the molding and door trim the same color as the walls.

We are planning to thrift and DIY as much of this house as we can.

Usually, a bed isn't something I'd recommend thrifting but I just happened to have a spare queen-sized bed so for my daughter this qualifies as thrifted 😂 

We transformed it with a fun DIY boucle treatment. I'll share that tutorial soon.

The linen curtains are from 3HLinen Inc. These are 100% blackout, tie-top linen curtains in the color "natural."

I can't say enough good things about these curtains. First of all, there's nothing quite like linen. It's so luxurious and rich feeling. 

Their curtains are 100% European flax and handmade in Europe. They are nice, thick curtains with a vinyl blackout liner and although these are not the heat-blocking curtains that they offer, they are doing a remarkable job at keeping the room cooler! 

The back of the house (and this bedroom window) faces south and gets really hot in the afternoon sun.

I did buy the roller shade and the curtain rod new.

I did also buy a new AC unit to replace the old one that was in the wall. It wasn't working well at all.

My daughter brought over some things she's been thrifting to start decorating although there's lots more to do in here still!

We added a vintage curtain tie-back that she found at a yard sale.

And here is a look at what it looks like so far!

We have lots more planned for this room:

• DIY or thrift a curtain to hang in the door opening.
• DIY a nightstand.
• Cover the shelves with peel-and-stick paper.
• Thrift an area rug.
• DIY the recessed ceiling light.
• Decorate.

I hope that you enjoyed this update, please share if you did!

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