Bedroom Makeover!

Hi Ladies! Thank you all for your kind and encouraging comments on our hallway make over. I am having a lot of fun doing these make overs, hunting through the thrift stores and regular stores looking for just THE perfect thing to add to the look. Now I'd like to show you our daughter's bedroom make over. When we bought this house 4 years ago, our daughter was 10 years old and crazy for the colour pink. She wanted pink walls, and she got pink walls! lol Four years on, she's feeling a little hemmed in by the pink walls, so a make over was due...........


Here are some photo's of her old bedroom. It is a very small room, so we're trying to make the best of a small area until we renovate off the side of the house and add more space. Luckily she always keeps her room absolutely spotless, so it looks nice even though it's small.


Before.....


Yep, still before....


Pink room all emptied and ready for painting...


The painting finally begins! Our daughter said that she wanted to go for a totally different look, more open, airy and fresh. So I chose white (the same white I used in the hallway).


This little table was given to me by my Aunt. She was going to throw it away, but I loved it so much that she gave it to me. It was a very dark chocolate brown, not very pretty, but I loved the shape and thought it would make a great bedside table painted white. You'll see the new look table further on.....


I found this hat stand at the thrift store for $20. It too was a dark chocolate brown....you'll see the new look white hat stand soon!


I found two of these ugly orange mirrors at the thrift store for $2 each. So I bought one for the new bedroom, and one for the hallway. I hope you like the transformations they recieved (I'll show you the hallway mirror tomorrow as I need my husband to hang it for me when he gets home tonight first!)


On the weekend we went to the beachside markets and I bought a pack of 10 Frangipani plaster of paris moulds for our daughter to paint up for her room as she wanted a Frangipani theme for the room. I got this pack of 10 moulds for $5 including the paint kit.


Here are the photo's of the new room.......as you wander around you'll notice the painted table, mirror and hat stand. The mirror was painted white and some of the Frangipani moulds were glued on to it. All done by our daughter. Yay!


We also went and bought a brand new bed and mattress for this room. I hope you can see the detail in the bed frame as it's really beautiful, very pretty and feminine. She loves it! Also, the framed painting above the bed was painted by my very talented mother! Our daughter put in a request to Nana for a Frangipani painting, and she got one! Thank you Nana xxx


These are some shelves I bought at IKEA. Because the room is so small, I didn't think we would be able to fit a dutchess table in here, but our daughter wanted some sort of little table area to hold her jewelry and make up. So I got my husband to attach the bottom shelf at a lower height and added the newly painted mirror, and a new chair from IKEA, and hey presto a little beauty area that doesn't take up any floor space!


The total shelf wall. Top shelf holds books, DVD's and pink DVD player. 2nd shelf needs some pretty baskets to hold misc items, but I'm still looking for just the right ones.....and the little white corner stand was painted by me 7 years ago. It was also a dark brown, so I painted it white and hand painted some fairies, cats, and vine on it for Princess. She still loves it and didn't want it painted over for this re-do.


The new dutchess.....well a space saver version of one anyway!


The newly painted hat stand!


Above the window, which has a new window treatment too....(new white cutains, and new white roller blind) we glued some more of the Frangipani moulds to the wall for a colour lift!


The new bedside table with a small mirror on top...


So there you have it, the long awaited bedroom make over for our very Precious Princess! The total cost for the make over was $850. That includes everything....paint, window treatments, new lighting, bed & mattress, wardrobe(from IKEA), picture frames, hat stand.....etc......everything! Also, in her old room she was allowed to put posters up all over the walls, but this time I bought some pine frames from IKEA for $8 each, painted them white and now she can put her posters in the frames. That way there are just the one set of hook holes in the wall, and she can change the posters easily at any time! Whew, I'm worn out now! I plan to visit you all soon, I've just been tied up trying to get these two rooms finished! Love to you all and hope you're having a wonderful week!...Love Amanda xxx