Tara makes a painted bedhead

Give your bedroom a budget makeover. - by Tara Dennis

Although your bedroom should be a calm and relaxing space that encourages a good night’s sleep, you don’t want your décor to be yawn-inducing! Tara shares a fun and unique DIY idea for a bedhead … and all you need to make it is a bit of paint and fairy lights.

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LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

Add a touch of whimsy to your bedroom with fairy lights. They’re an easy and affordable way to create ambient light and you can go for coloured bulbs for even more fun!

TEAM WITH A THEME

Choose a vintage chair the same shape as the bedhead and paint it in the same colour. Festoon the back with fairy lights and use it as a bedside table. So easy!

Hanging pots with fairy lights in bedroom

MAKE IT MAGIC

You can suspend pots of trailing greenery, such as devil’s ivy, from wall hooks and weave battery-operated fairy lights through the plant. How enchanting

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Download the step-by-step instructions to paint a bedhead

For more decorating projects, pick up a copy of the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine in selected newsagents and supermarkets or buy online today!

Tara Dennis

On Channel Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens, Tara Dennis shares her interior style and design secrets, showing viewers how to transform their homes for less.

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