Saturday, September 28, 2013

Divine Design - Master Bedroom Retreat

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When we had cable, we would watch Divine Design with Candice Olsen and always dream about having her design our bedroom. So for sabbatical last year, we decided to hire an interior designer to redo our bedroom. Overall the experience wasn't quite what we expected but we are pretty pleased with the transformation. Here are the before pictures.

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Luckily I was able to sell all the furniture on Craig's list.

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Since I redid our closet, we didn't have a need for the dressers anymore.

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Here you can see the faded carpet from the previous owner as well as our redi shades covering the sliding doors. Those temporary shades were up for over 2 years.

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We added 7 recessed cans, moved the ceiling fan, and added another pendent light.

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Here I'm having the painter smooth out the stucco wall to make it ready for wallpaper. Yes, wallpaper. Never did I think we'd be putting up wallpaper.

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Here's our new wood floors to replace the carpet. They are 7" maple. You can also see the new wall color.

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Here's the wallpaper lady.

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Here's the finished product. We had just finished getting professional photos taken so if you look closely, you can't see any alarm clocks or phone chargers. You can see the TV and the console table on the left which were things that we had picked out. The designers weren't too keen on a TV in the bedroom.

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Here's our sitting area.

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Another shot of the finished product.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Even though it was not Candice, still a remarkable transformation. No doubt you are enjoying this fabulous bedroom :)

erwoo said...

Wow, it's been a while since I visited your blog. LOVE the new bedroom! It's like one you see on HGTV...almost Candice-like!