It has been just a little over 3 months since we moved into our new home and I’m happy to report that we have finally finished unpacking almost everything. And that means that we can now park in our garage. Woohoo! This is a big deal people!

Besides moving everything around, we are slowly, but steadily, getting things painted. (Check out our newly revamped breakfast nook here.) Since we have an active toddler, our painting has been somewhat limited to the areas that we can secure with baby gates and door knob covers. We’ve been jumping around from space to space and next on our list of workable areas was our entryway. You may not be able to tell from the photo below (since the front door is hanging wide open in the middle of the day,) but the space was almost cave like with its dark paint and faux wood accents.

With just a few coats of pure white paint on the trim/doors and some Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter on the walls, the area looks completely different and a lot brighter. I love how paint can completely transform a room without breaking the budget.

Eventually, we would like to remove the doors on the closet to open everything up and add some hooks along the walls for all of our coats, purses and scarves. We would love to be able to incorporate our numbered wooden crates…

But they don’t all fit lined up along the floor. Maybe we will do something similar to what Emily did in her Entryway Remodel.

The hardware also needs to be updated, since it is looking pretty beat up.

And we will definitely be changing out the flooring. All in good time.

Other than that, we are really enjoying how much brighter the space is looking. Nothing says come on in and hang up your coat like a welcoming foyer.

Last time you saw our bedroom was during a sneak peak revealed in this post. It still looks pretty much the same, except for one subtle difference in the form of a lift. See those pretty little dark feet hanging out at the bottom of the bed skirt? Yup, they are new.

Since we are hosting my office area in the corner of our bedroom, we wanted to add some extra storage space. The best place to achieve this was under the bed, since we didn’t want to add more furniture pieces. So, we researched some different ideas and after eliminating traditional, store bought bed risers (which we heard have a tendency to break in the middle of the night,) we decided to go the DIY route. No surprise there, right?

I found this tutorial on Pinterest and thought it looked cool, but unfortunately, our bed frame is made differently than theirs, so we had to think of another way to do it. After a little brainstorming, my genius husband figured out how to make it work.

We started out with 4 round, wooden, deck post finials which we bought for around $16 from our local hardware store.

After a quick sanding to smooth them out, we popped the screws into some floral foam so that they would be easier to spray paint. We chose to use Rustoleum Universal Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint with the hopes that they would semi-match our existing headboard. (I neglected to take a photo of them all together and painted though.)

Here is our old bed frame’s little wheels that held everything up. Kind of pathetic, right?

Well, the hubs figured out how to remove the entire wheel base and the plastic part that kept it tight inside of the leg. Then he pried the plastic piece off with a screw driver.

Lucky for us, the post screws fit perfectly inside of the original plastic frame pieces.

And with a few taps of the hammer, they were secured in place.

Finally, we just lifted the bed back up and positioned each post in place.

So far, the bed is holding up great and seems to be very secure. The kids even jumped on it a bit to double check the sturdiness. Plus, we gained several inches of storage space, which was exactly what we were looking for. Yay!

Here is my sweet little model showing off the new height of the bed and how it is perfectly toddler proof.