Bedroom Makeover

So these past few weeks Dan and I have been working on our room- trying to make it look not so boring and ugly :)
It's still a work in progress, but I'm so excited about it, so I have to show a little preview of what we've been working on..

First off, here is our inspiration..

I love EVERYTHING about this room! Rug, pillows, colors, etc. etc. Our room will look completely different because of our little resources (lack of mula $), but I'm pretty sure it is still going to look great!
Without giving the whole thing away, here is a sneak peek of some things we have already finished.
The headboard
Dan was able to use extra foam from work to create the skeleton of the headboard. He did a great job! For some reason I'm a very confident sewer, even though I only started a few months ago and most the things I make don't look near as good as they could. So with this project I took my confidence and just ran with it! Dan wanted squares on the headboard, and I thought I could do that easy. Turns out it was not-so-easy! When we put the fabric covering over the board with only one thin layer of padding, it was barely big enough to stretch around the whole front and sides to the back.. we stretched the fabric as tight as we could, but any way we did it, the squares looked completely off, and it barely fit!  It looked horrible and we were about to scrap the whole thing all together. Luckily, we are both really cheap and couldn't bear the thought of wasting all that fabric that I had sewn together, so we took a little trip to Joann's and bought some extra padding, extra fabric, and some buttons to hopefully save this thing... and.....IT WORKED! We are so happy with it!
I don't want to show the whole thing yet, so here is the corner of it..

Next up, I took some of the fabric from the headboard and made some pillows.. I'm planning on making TONS of pillows since they are so easy to make! For some reason the picture makes it look like I did a really crappy job.. I swear they look better than this :p

We went to IKEA and found some really cheap, cute lamps that we are going to put on our nightstands if we can ever find any cheap ones to buy. If anyone knows of any ( preferably black) nightstands that are for sale, let me know!

Well folks, I hope you enjoyed this tiny tiny preview to the up-and-coming room of the decade (our room of the decade at least, since we won't be able to afford redecorating for awhile)! I'm probably going to regret talking it up so much.. please disregard this post if you don't see the end result in the next few weeks!