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A Quick Bed Skirt From Old Bed Sheets Instantly Transforms Your Bedrooms Character

Photo: Daria Shevtsova / Pexels

This quick and easy makeover recycles a plain flatbed sheet into a bed skirt.

Bring an air of bohemian romance into your bedroom in only seconds by creating a bed skirt using a plain sheet, creating an intimate space for your special someone. Plus, it is one way to recycle older or unused bed sheets.

The Queen size bed in our example has one mattress; therefore, a king-size flat sheet was spread over the mattress, allowing the sheet to reach the floor. The flatbed sheet’s loose fit creates a relaxed bed skirt that complements the duvet’s plush softness.

You can sew two flat sheets for more extensive size beds. Try matching the bed skirt color with the pillowcases, or use complementary colors.

The bed skirt in the above image was created in seconds using an old recycled plain flat bed sheet. Photo: rlmo

If your bed has both a mattress and box spring, place a flat sheet between the mattress and box spring to allow the ‘skirt’ to reach the floor. A bed skirt should reach close to the bedroom floor or beyond but never end too far above the floor.

By experimenting with various patterns, accents, colors, fabrics, and multiple sizes, you can easily update your bed and bedroom appearance while you help the environment by recycling bed sheets.

A king size flatbed sheet was placed over a queen size mattress, creating a casual bed skirt. PHOTO: rlmo

April 2, 2014
Quick and Inexpensive Small Bedroom Closet Makeover
Three images of the original closet

The flat’s decent-sized master bedroom featured a small, disproportionately sized closet, oddly also home to the apartment’s hot water tank.

Three guidelines guided the small bedroom closet’s real-life makeover.
1. The unit is a rental; therefore, keep expenses to a minimum.
2. For the reason above, cannot displace the hot water tank.
3. The residence’s two large hallway closets will store coats and winter boots.
The original layout had a single rod across the front, with the rear area and a shelf above the rod used for general storage.

We decided to maximize the left wall area and the space around the water tank. The left wall was divided into three parts, two rods and a sliding-out pants rack from Ikea.

Mail room pigeon hold shelf used in the project

We used a salvaged mail room pigeonhole shelf for the area around the water tank, which received two coats of white paint.

The closet was emptied, cleaned, primed, and underwent two coats of satin gloss paint. Once the freshly painted walls dried, we installed the shelf, cut it into smaller sections to fit around the water heater.

Ikea pant rack, 2 clothes racks and shelves installed.

With the shelf securely in place, we then attached the two rods plus the pants rack onto the opposite wall. Unfortunately, the closet’s width did not allow for the slide-out hanger to slide forward, so the right-side support rail was removed using a metal cutting saw.

The hanger was secured directly onto the drywall studs using two large screws (Yellow arrow). It is important to securely attach rods and racks to a wall stud or use appropriate size wall anchors.

Studs run along a wall from floor to ceiling 16 or 24 inches apart, measured from center to center. A stud finder would help to locate studs.

Below are the before and after makeover images.

Completed small bedroom closet real-life makeover™
March 19, 2008