These small bedroom decorating ideas on a budget are perfect for maximizing space and making a tiny room feel bigger! You don’t have to spend a fortune to decorate your small bedrooms… By implementing these design tips for small spaces, you can DIY your small bedroom decor and get rid of the “sleeping in a sardine can” feeling.

The night before we closed on our house two years ago, we were in tears… literally.

And they weren’t happy tears.

We were about to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new home, and we couldn’t get exactly what we wanted… We couldn’t afford the acre of land in the prime area of town, or more square footage, or a fancier kitchen.

We had to settle. And it didn’t feel good.

Don’t get me wrong… our house did check off a lot of the boxes on our wishlist. It has a super long and flat driveway with plenty of space for my husband’s work trailer and boat – check. It’s one story – check. It has an open floor plan – check.

But, that day before closing, my husband and I were both emotional wrecks.

When we had done our final walk-through the day before, the house was empty and the rooms felt TEENY-TINY! Isn’t it funny how putting a giant sofa in a space can actually make the room feel bigger?! But since the previous owners had already moved all of their stuff out, we were confronted with an empty space that looked WAY different than it did furnished.

One of the biggest drawbacks of our home is the small bedrooms. The master bedroom is perfectly-sized with a home office and a giant closet, but the two other bedrooms barely fit a bed and a dresser.

Our oldest daughter’s bedroom measures 11 feet x 11 feet, or 121 square feet. That may not sound small… until you realize that a full size bed takes up about 28 square feet. That’s not a lot of room left to walk around.

Here is her room “BEFORE” these small bedroom decorating ideas:

Our younger daughter’s room is a mere 10 1/2 feet x 10 1/2 feet. Here is a “BEFORE” picture of her room:

Yes, this is the only “before” picture that we have because this was pre-blogging… back when I didn’t have to take 62,000 before and after pictures.