Updating a bland bedroom with rustic, cozy European farmhouse elegance and style without breaking the bank!

European Farmhouse Bedroom Reveal

I absolutely love sharing room reveal photos! It's so fun to look back and see how far your hard work has taken you! And a room makeover is always so inspiring!

We redid our Master Bedroom in just 5 weeks for the One Room Challenge back in May of 2019. Fast forward a year and we ripped out the carpet in our bedrooms and installed gorgeous (and totally affordable) wide plank farmhouse laminate floors in all our bedrooms, the stairs, and the front of our home, making our home completely carpet-free! We were able to match the floors to the ones we installed in our living room and sunroom in 2018  here. SHOP OUR BEDROOM

DIY Bedroom Projects

• before pics and plan for our bedroom
• new paint and a faux brick wall
• painting oak dressers with a weathered wood technique
• working on new barn doors
• no-sew sumptious velvet bolster pillow and DIY insert

A look back

Before we get to any more beauty shots, we absolutely need to take a look back! I promise that you will not recognize this bedroom! The before photos show a bland, uninspiring room with nothing going for it! Our bedroom stressed me out with those beach towels hanging from the French doors, the yucky green walls, the incohesive look and of course the mess! It's hard to be motivated to keep a room clean when it's an ugly space!

The process to transform our master bedroom into a cozy, rustic room with European Farmhouse style was a lot of work, but it was totally doable and absolutely 100% worth the effort! We are always on a budget with our projects, and this room was no exception.

Rustic and Elegant Bedroom Reveal

In the before pics, our headboard doesn't really stand out as the beauty that it really is! Can you believe I actually considered painting the headboard? I am so glad that I didn't because I love the contrast against the white brick wall!

You'll remember that our furniture was all mismatched. The nightstands bothered me the most because Mr DIY's nightstand was taller and beefier than mine. But replacing them didn't make sense because they are both solid wood pieces and functioned perfectly fine. Refinishing the top on my nightstand and giving Mr DIY's nightstand a DIY weathered wood look helped them to be somewhat more cohesive.




A tip for achieving a cohesive look when you have mismatched nightstands is not to use table lamps. They just emphasize the differece! Instead, add wall mounted lights or lanterns. The barn doors are such a beautiful update over those beach towel covered French doors!  Click here for the full DIY barn door tutorial for people who DON'T consider themselves to be builders! We'll take you step by step through the entire process! The double barn doors add beautiful, rich texture to the room and give us so much more square footage! And YES, we kept our ceiling fan...we live in Texas and we NEED that cool air moving over us at night!  
       
Our new farmhouse floors were the finishing touch to really adding that European farmhouse feel to our bedroom. We share some tips to removing carpet and installing wood floors here. I love a room that feels cozy and we definitely achieved a feeling of coziness in this space. New bedding and pillows, including a no-sew DIY velvet bolster pillow (for only $25!) and white faux fur pillows (see similar here) make the bed almost impossible to resist! A gorgeous new rug, that feels like silk underfoot, not only brings a little color to the floor but it grounds the bed, whether you have wall to wall carpet or wood floors.

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