Master Bedroom Built In Storage

Our bedroom is the last in the house to be decorated/renovated, well, our ensuite will be but that will have to wait for a while.

It has basically been a dumping ground as we are tight on space, what with 5 adults and a senior dog we don't have much in the way of storage space so we wanted to incorporate a built in storage unit as the wall above the chest of drawers was wasted space.

We had intended to keep the chest of drawers and build a storage unit around it but they are quite bulky and I wanted a more streamlined storage system and to be perfectly honest, drawers don't really hold a lot.

18th April, he drew up a plan of the storage unit/wardrobe.

Hamish supervising as per usual!

Base of storage unit.

19th April

26th April he put the flamingo wallpaper on the back of my display shelves.

wallpaper on the back of my dressing gown rail.

Scott put trim around the edge of the display shelving framing the flamingo wallpaper.

We bought some of these crates from Kmart to store underwear in.

27th April 2025, it was ready to put our things in.

I love the display section where I can pick and choose what goes into this space.

I got a pair of bookends from the op shop for $5, they were originally $29.99.

We had planned to put sliding doors on, but as we had these sheer curtains spare from another project, I thought it would be better to put these up to save time and money and I also thought it would give a less boxed in feel, if we feel they aren't working as well as doors then we can change them in time.

Next on our to do list is replacing the carpet with flooring and wallpapering the walls.

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