Room Update

The New Color Scheme For My Room

So right now here are the items that I have:
1. Daybed
2. Coffee Table(s)
3. Comfy Recliner Chair
4. Sunburst Mirror
5. One light Fixture
6. Decorative Pillows
7. Wall Decor

So as you can see this three day weekend has been a successful one. All of this came together really quickly and I ran with it. On Friday night my mom and I went to TJ Maxx and struck it rich with pillows and cool decorative ampersand signs.
On Sunday we then went to Ikea for the first time and I got two coffee tables and a light fixture there.  The coffee tables are simple round tables with glass tops. I got two because one would just look weird and two of them together would be pretty. So yeah, we got two. The light fixture is a table lamp that is kind of cool and modern. I am not sure how to describe it but when I start putting my room together I'll take pictures.
After Ikea, I then headed over to Homegoods. I was so excited to walk in there and I found so many cute accessories for around the room, but I couldn't get them.....they weren't expensive, they were to fragile, and they weren't ugly. I couldn't get them because I had found a beautiful chair and not everything would fit in the car. The chair was a gray over sized comfy sofa seat that happened to also be a recliner. I was then obsessed with it and the price. The chair was originally over $400 but we got it for just under $200. If that isn't a steal, I don't know what is. So after purchasing the chair and the two tables at Ikea, we somehow had to fit it all in my CR-V. It was a feat, but we accomplished the daunting task.
On Monday my mom and I headed over to some weird store by us and I had such a closed-mind thinking we wouldn't find anything, but I was wrong. When we first walked in we found a cheap long mirror that I'm going to put on the back of my door, it was a simple but needed find. We then started walking towards the back of the store where we found a beautiful wall piece. It was a huge and gorgeous sunburst mirror that will be the focal point above my bed.



Perhaps the biggest accomplishment of this weekend was cleaning out ALL MY DRAWS AND CLOSET. I haven't really done this since my freshmen year or so, so you can only imagine how much I threw out.



SEVEN BAGS OF DONATED CLOTHES LATER, my draws are finally cleaned out and ready to be transferred all to one dresser.

So yeah, as I said in the beginning, this weekend was a total success; but the next feat that I must accomplish is painting the room.....wish me luck.

Room Makeover: Stage One

Okay, yeah, I know I haven't entered anything since November, but nothing has happened in between then and now that would be worth posting. No, really, NOTHING!
But now I finally have something to talk about and continue updating about....I'm redoing my room! I'm so extremely excited.
Last night my mom and I ordered a daybed on eBay. The reason we decided on ordering a daybed is because when I move out in a couple years (hopefully) it can be used as a bed/couch if I'm in a studio apartment or it can be part of a guest room, or it can be my bed while I'm saving up for a King/Queen size bed. So see, it is a great idea!
The problem with finding daybeds though is that most of them look like baby cribs. No seriously, they do, it's ridiculous. I found one that sort of looks like a couch so it will be good and my twin mattress will fit in there; comfy and smart!
Anyways, besides buying the daybed, my next feat will be finding a color scheme. Right now I am almost certain on one thing, my wall color. Right now the whole 'gray is the new beige' is what I'm thinking. Gray walls with all colorful accessories is my plan....for now at least. So here are some schemes I'm leaning towards...

I really want some playful colors, but I don't want them so playful, that it starts to look like a little girl/preteen room. So, I must be careful! I also don't want pink to be the main color, it's not that I don't like pink, it's just that I want my room to look more classy than girly; but I know that pink will be an accent color in one way or another.

So I'm working toward Room Makeover Stage One right now: picking the color scheme, and painting the walls.

Oh, and let me know what color schemes you like!