Out with the Old in With the Wonderful

After moving back to Chicago from Minneapolis, my room is a disaster. I honestly have more junk that I could have ever imagined, and this truly became apparent to me when comparing my pile outside my dorm room door to other girls' piles. But after several trips down to the car and then a seven hour drive, I am home and loving it. I had an interview for a job at a daycare today, and I have a trial day there on Monday. I also have an interview for a babysitting job tomorrow. God has been nothing but faithful in my job hunting process, considering that I also have two more interviews that I still need to schedule.

But anyways, back to the room situation. I have decided that I will be giving all of my current furniture to my sister and to start from scratch. So far what I have to work with is a bookcase, mattress, and a hanging canopy. My goal is to create an open and simple space that is great for reading and relaxing. Currently, it is far too cluttered.

For my bed, I would like something like this:

However, I am going to try to convince my dad to build it for me instead of spending almost $200 on it.
Then on top of the bed will be a canopy similar to this:

We have a couple dressers around the house that I could probably snatch up and use, but they would need makeovers. I was unsure what I'd do to make them work, but I found a DIY that would work great.

I'm a huge fan of light yellow, and this would be great color to go with the dark red and pale turquoise that I'm planning for the walls. I'd also like to find some antique handles somewhere to replace the old ones. 

As for shelving, I have an idea of some wall shelves that I want to put up along with a few of these:

Barnes and Noble Floating Bookshelf

As for lighting, I need to find a ceiling lamp that I actually like that will give off some decent light. Some ideas:

These are all simple and from Ikea.