My Asian themed Master Bedroom remodel.

So here is my bedroom remodel. To start I will have to try and give you the before image in description. Sadly the photos were lost in a computer crash. But all you have to keep in mind is that my home is a manufactured three bedroom two bath house. It has slanted ceilings in the main living area and the master suite. A somewhat open floor plan ( until the prior owner decided to wall off the dining/kitchen area with not so well made shelving which I have removed) and was built I believe around 1965.

So now with that in mind and then considering other than adding shelve walls and screwing up the kitchen layout and doing the necessary repairs nothing else had been changed. So in other words no walls or ceilings had ever been painted sadly not even the ones where the roof had leaked. They did however fix the roof somewhat at least.

So what I had in the master bedroom was papered wall board yeah I'm talking the old flower pattern stuff which had yellowed. Stained spots on the slanted ceiling which I don't think had ever been painted before the leak and a somewhat odd layout. Not so much odd in shape it's basically square, but odd as far as bed placement. One wall has a full window one slant wall has a half window the other has the doorway. And the high ceiling wall has two doorways one to the master bath the other to the walk in closet.

So as you can imagine all in all there are a lot of good points. I mean not everyone has a master bath and or walk in closet. My biggest problem I had besides just putting in the work and small cost of painting was tackling the proper furniture layout. Now this was made somewhat easier having the walk in closet thus eliminating the need for a full dresser set. But my key issue was with bed placement it was pretty much set to the slant wall with the half window. Now I realize a new trend is in placing the bed at a slant in a corner. But while the room is a descent size it just wasn't quite large enough for that option. And I really wasn't totally satisfied with the eye appeal left with it against the slanting up wall.

So now here I am with a queen size bed on one of the adjustable frames. A boring light wood shelved headboard I had passed along to me that I could do without anyway. So in watching allot of home makeover shows I.E. Design on a dime, Trading spaces and such I see a lot of them making their own headboards and attaching them to the wall. I then begin thinking about my layout issue. And the place I would like the bed is on the wall with the full window but I don't want to have to hide a ceiling to floor curtain. As we all know the window dressings can be a good way to add flair or even color pop to an otherwise so so room.

 Now a theme I've actually always liked and wanted was the Asian style. Which begins to lend an idea for my bed placement and headboard problem. And also to the problem in hiding a perfectly good window treatment. This is where I hatch a plan to use a shoji screen serving as a headboard thus solving all these problems. Since the shape and size is right and the weight makes it practical for mounting to the wall. Adding to the fact it is somewhat transparent so I don't lose all the lighting from the window. And the big plus I now have a theme for the rest of the room well sounds like we have a winner.

Now at this point I already have in the back of my mind some things I saw at one of my new favorite places to shop since becoming a homeowner. No not Lowe's, in fact if I'm shopping there it usually means I'm into a much deeper repair project. This is more of the fun and exciting shopping experience places (ladies I'm sure you will get this part maybe not the place but the experience) this is where I get to begin putting together the accent and accessory pieces. Now keep in mind I'm on a low budget here and where am I going? My local Family Dollar store, I really just love browsing the accent isle's in this store for the price I don't think you can beat it on a low budget. And even better for my theme as they carry allot of Asian style accent pieces.

Now of course by accent I'm just talking pictures, lamps, bedding, pillows and such. Not things like furniture pieces, remember I'm a DIY'r I have some skill, tools, miscellaneous furniture pieces and a big imagination!

 Jumping ahead I've chose a mustard paint for the walls and of course primed and repainted the ceiling just staying with ceiling white. I found a black framed with the typical white rice paper look backing shoji screen at fingerhut.com. Now this was my biggest expense piece for the room costing around $79 which is the typical price I found for these anywhere. I will add while I originally hung this with the white backing that it came with. It was some kind of a foam material that didn't hold up to the sun well.

I found this out swatting a wasp one day, oops you guessed it big tear. Seems the foam had dry rotted but you'll see in the photos it worked out for the best. As I simply purchased some red silk fabric ( which wasn't foam) took it down, removed the old and stapled the new fabric pulling it tight as I went and then trimmed off excess. And the red works out much better adding a color pop while still allowing some light. I live in Oklahoma by the way it gets way to hot here to let full sunlight in anyway.

Now for furniture pieces I had a tall white drawer dresser which I needed for socks and stuff. And it didn't fit in the walk in but other than that I had no real bedroom pieces. No night stands or other storage pieces. I had purchased two lamps that were black and had somewhat of an Asian detail to them from Family Dollar for $15 each. So this is where my brain starts working what do I have that I can work with so as to not spend much money ( I'm not really that poor but I am I guess you'd say cheap) and so as to reuse something I will just throw away.

I begin looking at an old kinda oval shaped dining table I have that had only two matching chairs. I had recently stayed in a hotel room where I noted the nightstands were attached to the wall. I then begin to picture the table pulled apart and the thought of needing a chair to sit and read, put socks and shoes on etc. I also pictured the boring white table being painted remember details and accents are always great for adding color pop.

Now I also have a two door upper cabinet I took down from a kinda half bar/wall the prior owner had built separating what was an originally open kitchen/dining floor plan. Could be some needed storage but no legs. So I begin looking at this bench/stool I have one of two that is about the same width as the cabinet. I set the cabinet on top of it imagine it painted ( yes if you read my kitchen remodel hub I may be a little stuck on the black/white thing), but in looking it takes my mind to some of the unique furniture pieces I've seen at Hobby Lobby which in fact was rather pricey I might add and walla another furniture piece is born.

So as seen in the photo's I went with the black and white on the dresser and well my homemade Asian table thingy. The dining table I took apart removed the sliding bracket for inserting the leaf and unscrewed the legs. I then imagined the colors and realized the Asian theme tends to use a lot of reds and gold. And to this point I have no gold anywhere so I went to walmart bought a can each of gold and red spray paint and some wide painters tape. I then started by painting the side edge of the table gold and let that dry. I then taped off the edge and painted the top red along with the legs I had removed. And the chairs which had a metal tube frame with a padded seat and back which I removed I then painted black. I just thought it would be to much red matching them and I think it worked out nicely in the end.

Now I have two half tables with two legs each to mount them I simply screwed two short blocks of 1x1 underneath and flush to the flat edge of each table. Then leaned them against the wall placed a level on top and screwed through the blocks and into the wall. As you can see in the photos I removed the drawers and doors on my other two pieces and painted the pieces black. The doors and drawer's I painted white. For the hardware the drawers were missing some so I just went and bought all round unfinished wood knobs at about .89 each and painted them black. The pulls for the doors I looked specifically for something that had a somewhat Asian look to them and already black. All that was left was removing the hinges and painting them black as well.

The last few things are just some simple accent pieces I purchased again at Family Dollar. The vase was about $15 and the pictures, ranged from $3 to $10 each. Add some flower pieces purchased at Walmart. They have a great selection of these that you can buy per piece and put your own arrangements together. Oh and the one other piece I did was the other screen which was actually an old long window shutter half that I just painted solid red. Then hand painted freestyle some green plant leafs on. To add a little extra I pulled some of the small flowers off my plastic arrangement and hot glued them on the screen.

And that is pretty much my bedroom makeover I hope you enjoy and maybe get some ideas of your own. For me as I say well "The price was right" and it definitely beats the old 70's flower wall board. Gag,, yuk.