Garden Room Redesign

3 years ago, my daughter and husband were out of town for a week visiting family and I decided to surprise them both with a much needed room makeover for my little girl.  I had 4 days to do it, and I was on my own, completely.

 

 

Here is her pathetic room before:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(She had bedding, I took the picture after I started on the project.)

We had just moved into a rental and were looking to buy a home.  The Process was taking waaay longer than we expected.  So I decided that even though it was temporary, I wanted her to have a happy place to call her own.  I loved the garden theme, because it is cute for a little girl, but they can grow into it too.

My to-do list:

• buy a bed
• bedding
• paint
• picket fence-paint and sand
• new dresser
• drawer pulls for the dresser
• hooks (backpack and coat)
• canopy
• tulip vinyl stickers

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was not the most “on the cheap” project I have done, but I was in a hurry, so I had less DIY options.  I did everything myself (that I could).  I did not hand craft a bed frame, or quilt the bedspread, but I did everything else.

I bought the bedding that I designed the room around.  I love this bedding from Pottery Barn.  It is sooo cute.  I also bought the tulip wall decals from Pottery Barn that I am in love with.  The bedspread has daisies, but I liked the tulip wall decals so much better than the daisies.  Seems like you would have both in a garden, right?  I liked the decals so much that I just bought another set.  They are discontinued and I could only find one set left on the entire world wide web.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I bought a cute pink lamp, and pink flower drawer pulls from Anthropologie and it was done!  I have no idea where the pictures are of the finished product, but these are close.

Now that we are in our new house, I want to put her room back together almost  the way that it was.  But I think I am going to paint just one wall, and I want to do a really light sky blue and add the picket fence with the *new* tulip decals.  I think I want something a little more soothing this time.

I will post pictures of the new wall as soon as it is ready.