Bedroom Makeover On A Budget

I have been tired of our bedroom furniture for a long time and have been just ITCHING to paint it! It was all that santa fe, mexican pine wood. I didn't take a before shot, but here is pretty much what my dresser looked like:

I painted it with flat, interior paint from Walmart (13 bucks a gallon), distressed and antiqued it, and stained the top. I also replaced the hardware with some bin pulls I found on ebay for $1.50 a pull. The hardware was a BEASTLY project - by far the worst part of refinishing this dresser. Those things are stapled in there instead of screwed, so I pretty much had to claw them out one by one. And Mark had to put the new stuff on - not fun on this dresser, but at least it is done! Here's what it looks like now:

I did the night stands in the same paint (they were the same wood as the dresser) and decided to leave the dang hardware on there. It will just have to stay there until it bugs me enough to rip it out and replace it:

And then came the headboard. I like bright colors, and I decided I wanted to paint it a bright robin's egg blue. I think people thought I was a little crazy, and I was freaking out a little bit as I was painting it, but I ended up loving it (luckily!). The bedding was a steal on Overstock, and my talented mother-in-law/seamstress made the pillows. I almost bought the same quilt we had for the last 5 years and totally wore out from Pottery Barn, but my friend Hillary talked me out of it. It's so nice to have a change, and a cheap one!