Sundays are usually our day to clean around our house, but I just was not in the mood for cleaning. So instead I decided to work on our bedroom. When I was pregnant with Leighton we got on the ball with making our upstairs livable, but that was about the extent of it. We had our dressers but no headboard, and a bed. There was not even really anything hanging on the walls. We still had not even put closet doors on, which was really starting to drive me nuts. After stripping all the bedding off of the bed, I remembered that I needed to take before pictures, so don't judge my room is really not that messy. :)
we recently downgraded from a king to a queen bed. We had a door mounted on the wall for a headboard but it was just plain, and not what I was wanting, it needed dressed up! We removed the door from the wall and brought it downstairs. I drew my lines on where I wanted it cut and took it outside (which let me tell you, it wasn't the warmest outside on Sunday). We then took a little trip to a house that they are going to be tearing down to get some doors, no worries we had permission to take them! I wanted french doors in the closet, but they are pretty pricey so I decided to just make them.
These doors were great because they matched a lot of the doors that are in the upstairs of our house! I washed them up, and got out the level and a measuring tape. The opening in the closet was 48" and the doors were 30" each. I measured marked and trimmed the sides off the doors and kept the panels in the middle.
After getting them cut we brought them back inside and put the original hinges back on, then mounted them on the closet.
After looking at my door that I used as a headboard it was still plain Jane and not what I was wanting. After looking outside at the pieces that we had shaved off of the closet doors I had an idea. I went out measured and cut, I was able to use the pieces that I shaved off the other doors to add trim to the headboard!
It is not finished yet, but neither is my bedroom, but it is a step closer. I mounted it back on the wall for now and I will finish it when it gets a little warmer outside.
But for now I am one giant step closer to bedroom bliss!