Anddd the next room to reveal is the Master Bedroom!

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The renovations in this main area of the Master Bedroom were mainly cosmetic – new paint, new carpet, new baseboards, new light fixture. I continued the gray and white theme in here, which I think is SO much brighter & better than the orange/brown vibes of the room when I bought the place!

After the cosmetic fixes were complete, I got to brainstorm about what I wanted to put on the walls!

I take a ton of pictures. Like, my phone literally has 20,000+ pictures on it right now… That being said, I wanted somewhere in my house that I could have a little gallery wall of a bunch of pictures of the people I love! There are a few companies that sell 4″ x 4″ printed photos with borders. But they’re all on the pricier side – so I decided to see if I could DIY it!

I printed 4” x 6” pictures at Walgreens (they’ve always got some sort of discount going for prints!) and trimmed them to 4” x 4”. Then, I stuck them onto white cardstock with a ¼” clearance on each side of the photo. After I had all the photos, I laid them out on my kitchen table and moved them around until the colors & composition of the photos worked together in a 6 picture by 6 picture pattern. To attach them to the wall, I used painter’s tape on the back on the cardstock. Voila!

The other DIY I did was for the wall over my bed. I perused Pinterest and found an example of something I liked – but again, something I didn’t want to spend big bucks for. To replicate it, I bought poster board & plastic frames at Target. I took a screenshot of the type of words I wanted in the frames, and printed each word out on an 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper.  After that, I taped the paper to the window so that I could roughly trace it in Sharpie onto the poster board. Then I trimmed the poster board to fit in the frames, and centered them on the wall above my headboard!

These are just 2 examples of DIY decor ideas. If you see something that you like on Pinterest or Instagram – most likely, there is a way that you can make something similar yourself and save some money! 🙂

After this, there is one final room reveal….and it’s my favorite. Keep your eyes peeled for the final reveal of #katieskondo, coming later this week!!