Master Bedroom Wall Decor, Part 1

We're finally completely unpacked and are now to the hanging-things-on-walls phase of moving in. It is by far Allen's least favorite part of moving but he tries to be a good sport about it. I've been working this week on the master bedroom. The layout of this room is VERY different than our last room so I'm only about half way done. We have a nice fireplace in our bedroom that I'm trying to figure out how to decorate around.

I don't think there are very many rules in decorating any more (yay!) but I do think one of the most important aspects of a well decorated space is to have wall decor scaled to the space you are decorating. Big walls need BIG pieces or a variety of small pieces clustered together to give the effect of a larger piece. It gets tricky because bigger pieces tend to be more expensive and most of us decorate on a budget! But you can decorate to scale inexpensively.

I hung these plates over the bed and paid a$3-4 per plate, except for the rectangular plate which was about $10. Big space but grouping a bunch of things together to fill up the space.

Wider view of the space:Up close:This is the HUGE, vaulted wall by the dresser. I left the surrounding space to give you an idea of how massive this space is. Close up:For this wall I gathered up some antique windows and painted them the same color. I got the scrolly F vinyl off of etsy and applied it straight to the window glass. These windows were quite cheap. My mom gave me the windows on either side but she said she paid $18 each for them. The scrolly F window was $20 and the 6 paned window was snagged from our house in CT. The vinyl was $30 so all total I paid $50 for this grouping. Definitely a cheap, fun way to fill up a gigantic space. I even had a couple of extra windows that I did not include in the grouping. The frames on my dresser are my kids' newborn pictures that I've had up since Carter was born. I plan to always have them somewhere in my bedroom.

Of course, if we owned this house this room would have a totally different look. The walls would be painted (an awesome color from Martha Stewart's delicious new line of paint at Home Depot) and all the frames would be painted black or white. When trying to decide what to do for this wall I tried to do something that I could repaint or repurpose in the future in a different home.

So there's the first peek of our MBR. I have a couple more projects in the works (including my first reupholstering attempt) but I am loving how it is coming together!

(Here's the first post I did about the bedroom redo and the before look of our newly painted furniture: From Drab to Fab(ish)