Master Bedroom Makeover - The Tufted Bench (Tutorial)

Yay, it's finally here! I finally get to show you (whomever you are out there in the internets reading this) my PRIZED DIY tufted bench!

To start the story from the beginning, I have wanted an upholstered bench at the foot of my bed since we bought our house 4 years ago. For years now, I have researched them online, shopped for deals, stared longingly at them in certain Home stores full of Goods, and always ultimately reached the same conclusion: I can't afford it. At over $200 a pop for the kind I wanted (aka, the upholstered, tufted kind), I just could never get around to justifying the expense.

After starting the Master Bedroom Makeover , I thought maybe the time had finally come to spring for one. I looked and looked, and finally found the one I had to have. Behold...



The white, the tufting, the silver, the mirrors...this was The Bench!

HOWEVER.

Master Bedroom Makeover - The Highboy and Nightstand #2

Here it is! The long-awaited (by all the imaginary readers of this blog in my head) reveal of the high dresser, also known as a "highboy" to all of you furniture nerds like me smarties out there. I actually finished, moved and filled this dresser awhile ago, but I couldn't find my memory card for my camera didn't get around to photographing it until this past weekend. Without further ado, I present Herbert (pronounced the pretentious French way, or "Hay-bear")...

 

 

The Before

Here he is prior to being refinished, in all his mahogany masculinity.

Master Bedroom Makeover: The Low Dresser

 

Well it's Friday, but I managed to make it to the ol' blog this week after all. This week was insane! (I would go into more detail than that, but some of those details involve a toddler with a stomach bug, so be happy I choose not to.) Since I finished Jason's Nightstand in Part 1 of our Master Bedroom Makeover, I have since finished my nightstand AND the beautiful, gorgeous, oh-so-incredibly-pretty-I-just-want-to-do-a-happy-dance-every-time-I-look-at-it low dresser. Are you ready to see what all my fuss the fuss is about?!? Here comes the before...



This is the original picture I found on Craigslist that inspired this whole project. Can you see why?! All Hail Madame La Dauphine!!

 

And here is what came next...

 

2014 Summer Project: Master Bedroom Makeover

I'm baaaaack. Sorry for the looooong departure from blogging, true to my form I went through a spurt of holiday photo-editing, exhausted myself, got sick of it, and took a break. I'm back (at least temporarily) for now though. Life at the Wheeler residence has been a bit topsy-turvy as of late. Some major changes are taking place! We planned since we purchased our home 4 years ago to paint our master bedroom. As the years passed, each room in the house slowly got painted, but the master bedroom remained a blank canvas. I was daunted by the size, vaulted ceiling and lack of natural light in the room, and hubs was daunted by the chair-rail wood trim. So, after (years of) much debate, we finally decided it was time to pick a color scheme once and for all and go for it. We have conceded our entire house to the needs of babes, it was way past time for us to make the master bedroom a priority. I browsed Houzz.com for bedroom color scheme ideas for hours, when finally, I saw it...





Photo from Martha O'Hara Interiors © O'Hara Interiors 2014