Tada! A big girls room for two! Guest Remodel

Angel from TaDa! Creations sent over her little girls room remodel.  It is absolutely adorable and detailed from top to bottom, she really thought everything out and planned well.  Especially considering the size of the room 10' x 10''!  WOW!  Knowing the size of the room helps you appreciate what she did even more.  Here is the whole story:

Last week was filled with household projects, the least of which was painting the girls' new Big Girl room. I asked them what color room they wanted and they both declared PINK right away (thank goodness!). So I taped color swatches to the wall and they each, individually, picked the same color. How cute is that! I did have to change it a bit once I decided on bedding sets. I went to PB Kids to match them and found I needed one a little less blue (shhh...don't tell the girls on me).

So we hyped it up all week by asking if they wanted to help paint their new room. They couldn't wait for the big day to arrive. They kept calling it their office since it used to be Daddy's office. I decided to paint most of it myself and leave some white space for them to paint on and then quick roller over it for the final finish. It worked perfectly!

A little bit about the paint - I got the idea to use a fun green for the upper wall in their room from this post by Jenn of takeabowcreations. It's Sherwin Williams Melange Green SW 6710. The pink I chose is called Partytime SW 6849. Did you know that Home Depot will match those colors too? They even had the color codes already in their system! Did you also know that if you wrap your brush in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge you can use it the next day? I love that trick, because I hate having to wash out my brush when I'm going to need it for the same color a little later.

Before

During

      

After

Not the best shot, the lighting was bad that time of day,

I promise I'll show more when the room is all done.

Their room is teeny tiny at just 10'x10' so not much else will fit besides two twin beds, which are already on their way. Oh and we have a lovely fuse box to hide on the wall that I painted green. I've decided to hang 3-4 rectangular canvases, vertically, so one can cover it fully. I'll either paint or applique something to stretch over the frame to match their bedding. The lower portion of that wall will be covered in white bead board.

Here's how I will be decorating their room.:

White Iron Beds

Penelope Bedding from Pottery Barn Kids - my FAV

(you might remember that I made my Sweet Tweet collection using the sheets from this set)

Felt Birds and Nest

This is already hanging in front of their window

Tonight is the first night the girls are sleeping in their new room. It feels like such a big milestone for them. I remarked to Dave last night, as we set up the first bed, that it feels really great as a parent to be able to give something so wonderful to your kids. I am seriously in love with their new room and I love how high their beds are and that we installed the beadboard on the knee-wall ourselves. I even figured out how to handle the 2 outlets on that wall and we did it perfectly.

This is just the beginning though, I still have a bunch of sewing projects to finish up. Fabric wall art for the green wall to cover the ugly electrical panel. Curtains, still not sure what they will look like. Bedskirts, I have several ideas just need to pick one. And some more fabric/applique art for the wall right when you enter the room. We've decided that for now we can't have anything else in the room of interest or they won't sleep. So, sadly the birds in their nest had to be removed, no dresser between their beds that I was planning on painting green and I can't put out the metal buckets I found at Babies R Us for dolls and toys. Even though this room has only 8'x10' of useable floorspace, I have big plans for a lot of punch in a small space.

These are the 150 yo-yo's I finished up just today for some accent throw pillows.

 

It's a dreary, rainy, gorgeous, fall day here in Minnesota. But instead of waiting for the sun to shine again, I took photos this morning anyway. The room is almost fully complete. Just waiting for the pink fan, and I need to swap out the curtain rod for the same white wood one that's in all the other bedrooms. Other than that, we are done! Yippee!!!

Looking in from across the hall. (and the new growth chart!)

I love this little woodland theme of wall appliques to greet you at the door. They are available at Target right now in the kids/girl bedding section (but not on-line, I've looked and looked in hopes of providing you a link here) . The whole set was about $15. When I first spied these in Jenn's girls playroom, it was love at first sight. I love how they added more colors to the room than just the pink and green that we started with. It gave me the go ahead to choose the 4 fabrics for over the bed. Which was a sacrifice since they will no longer be used to make skirts for myself. But that's ok, there is always new fabric to fall in love with. And in here I'll get to see them everyday and they won't fade from washing. So it's all good.

I showed you in the last post the eye-sore of an electrical box that's on this wall. Seriously, who decides to put an electrical panel in a bedroom when the utility room is along this same outside wall. I've been wanting to cover it up since we moved here 10 years ago. Now, that is what I call procrastination-, uh, patience. Or just a lack of direction, until now. What I did: I figured out that in order to have it in the center of the wall, leaving room for the appliques on either side and not having to nail where the panel is, I had to find (4) 24"x24" canvases. The local shops didn't have anything that size so I searched on-line. I was thrilled when I found Artist Brand Canvas. They had 24" x 24", 1-5/8" wrapped canvases. So for around $50 I had the base I needed to fill the wall. I just stapled on the fabrics, from Heather Bailey's Pop Garden line, and made hospital corners so they wouldn't show on the sides. I love that I can swap out the fabric if we need to. I will probably add furring strips to the wall since I realized as I was hanging these, that the panel wasn't flat against the wall.

  

Here's another eye-sore that's found throughout the house. The dark brown intercom system. I think we've decided to just remove it and patch the walls. The house is so small that we've never needed to use it. If the doorbell wasn't connected to it I think we would have removed it years ago. But it's one of those things that's way down on the list considering we'd have to learn how to patch large holes in sheetrock. I can think of better ways to spend our Saturdays right now though.

So, that's it. A lot of punch packed into a teeny tiny room (about 8'x9' of usable floorspace). I can't imagine two teenagers sharing this small of a space so hopefully we'll have moved by then.

UM WOW!  
Isn't that  just the cutest thing ever?!  
YES!!!

***Also, you really need to check out some of her sewing projects, especially this peaseant ruffle dress, she has a FULL TUTORIAL and I think it would be a perfect Easter dress, don't you think?

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The Princess and the Pillow; Guest Project Tutorial

We have a quick tutorial that was submitted by Cami at Creating by Cami.

It is a cute tutorial for a pillow that she created for her daughter's princess bedding.  It is a faux chenille pillow.  It has a nice texture and I think could be a fun process to experiment with. Here is the project:

You can make a lot of fun projects using this faux (fake) chenille method I'm about to show you. I've done cute little girl purses, and wanted to try this pillow. I think making faux chenille is also great for new sewers, because of the basic skills and repetition they are exposed to. Anyway, here's how you make it.

TA-DAA! Just what that cute princess bed needed.

 Thanks Cami for the great tutorial!  

I bet your little girl LOVES her beautiful bed!

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Pink is this year's black! Guest Before and After!

I am totally in love with this dresser redo from Erika at e creates.

I love the color and I love how she saved the original hardware, because it really does have great lines!

Check it out!  (her posts are here and here)

Okay Erika, take it away:

This is my cute little Craigslist find for 20 bucks!  Hopefully it'll turn out half as great as my inspiration.

 

 

It's obviously still functional, but needs some major TLC.

Which is your favorite?

Here she is!!!! 

After

She's not perfect, but we love her anyway:)

 

 

I really love the color choice!  

Great Job I think the dresser is perfect!.... 

now, if only I could convince Justin to let me paint our dresser pink....

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Three times the fun!

Today I have a  special treat, three guest projects to show off.

and they even have a theme, can you guess what that is?

Thank Heaven for little Girls!

1. A Totally HOT Dresser Redo
2. Faux Chenille Pillow Tutorial

3.A Wonderful Little Girls Room Makeover! 

A must see, from top to bottom!

I will be posting them throughout the day so please check back!

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Remodelaholic's Anonymous Meeting 11

You may have noticed this week, that I am featuring a lot more of your projects on a day to day basis.  I plan on continuing, so link up.  If you are featured, give a shout out on your blog so we can get the word out!  Thanks! ...the more links the more inspiration for us all!

If you are featured, 

please grab a Featured On" button from my side bar.  

(if you have ever been featured, please feel free to take one too!)

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN, Please join us!

By linking to the party you give Remodelaholic full permission to feature all or part of  the linked post. All featured posts will be credited to the original author and linked to said post.  

Here are the party guidelines:

1. Please become a follower of the blog FIRST !!

2.Please link to something that is relevant to this blog's topics (up to 3 links per blog). For example, a remodel, before and after, recipe, craft, DIY project, show us what you are working on. Please no businesses or etsy shop links.

3.Link to the specific post, not your homepage!

4.Add my button to your blog's sidebar or the post so more people can here about the party... The more people that see the button, the more people that will see your posts and blogs!  

5. Please check out the link before you and make sure to leave a comment!  ***On that same note, I want to apologize for not being able to comment on each and every linked blog. I will look at each and every link, but I have come to the decision that in the interest of my daughter/mommy time that I can't always comment.   It takes an incredible amount of time to comment on each link and I feel the stress of it.  I am sure you will be understanding!  Know that I am looking at them, and I love that you are participating.  I know that quite a few people look through these links and click through to all of them, so I hope you will continue to link up!  Also I hope to start featuring more of your projects here on the blog, so keep linking and check back daily for the featured projects (I am mostly going to be featuring interior design/ remodeling posts FYI!)  Thanks!

If for some reason your link has been deleted, just make sure that you have followed the rules and retry.

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Cause sometimes, I like to show off....

Just thought I would give a shout out to 

Roeshel of the DIY Show Off!

THANK YOU!

She was kind enough to feature my half bath Retro Remodel from my post here, today!  

The one that went from this to this:

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Enter here; Entry Remodel Plans

Our house is your basic builder's grade house.  Nothing interesting, no great finishes.  The entry is no exception.  This is what it looked like when we walked through the house.

For the last little while we have been making plans.  I wanted to show you some of these today.  The only caveat is that we have no time frame as to when exactly we will get this done... It is just how we work.  See, if the weather gets good, we have a project to do outside. Or somethings need to be organized before I go insane, we try to get to that first, cause going insane is not a good thing!...   

Which means, while we will try to get this done asap, for our sakes as well as your inquiring minds, I can't make any promises to time lines!  But fear not, you will get to see the finished product... sooner or later!

There are a few problems with the entry

1. It is a tight fit.

2. There is no natural light.

3. It is just kinda blah....

4. It felt like an undefined space.  (one of the problems with one plans to me, is the lack of defined spaces, the entry just sort of melted into the family room)

My goals: (pretty much the opposite of the problems...)

1. Open up the space

2.  Let in some light

3.  Give it some character

4. Define the space, as it's own little room.

5. A small table for keys and a mirror, (so I can see how bad i look when I answer the front door).

So, I started drawing up options.  I am a person who likes to see what I am doing.  Also, since Justin and I collaborate on projects it is the best way to communicate back and forth.  Needless to say there are usually a lot of these plans, in varying degrees of "finished-ness".   While we are building it, we sketch our versions of how it should be done until we come up with the best solution.  There are always a lot of changes!

1st try not the final plan.  Our first attempt at coming up with a solution.

The attempts to fix problems, are as follows

The new newel posts sit on the first stair, instead of on the floor in front of them, 

this gained us 6 inches of extra width. 

 A small 1' deep console table, very open.

Corbels in the open space to create some sort of header to define the spaces a little more. 

2nd attempt, after deciding to have arches into the kitchen.
 We were figuring out what it would look like with a full arch into the entry.

We also had new plans for the door headers.  You can see that we have already made some changes to the entry, i.e. painting the door black, but I will show you that later.

Same day view from the kitchen, to see how the two arches would sort of look together,
and a possible black handrail.

3rd option, While looking through some magazines and old tear files I found these images that I really liked, which sparked a new, altogether more open option.

We discussed the plans and Justin made a 3d model of the space with our few changes, 

and the idea is getting very close to done. 

This was basically the last plan we had come up with.  It opens the space up tremendously.  The new arch above defines the spaces, The stairs look custom, grand and beautiful.  So, this is what we have had in mind, but there is still one major problem, NO natural light.

Enter our last solution, not quite fully worked out. I will have to explain this in depth after our visit to the window store on Saturday.  But here is the sketch:

Notice the large window?  

Remember how I was talking to ya'll about stained glass?  

Well, I will explain that in more detail on my next "designing our house" post....

What do you think of the new plan?  

(i hope you don't hate it, cause we are already working on it.... and it is probably not going to change much)

**EDIT:  To  let you know why I don't want to replace the door to add natural light.  First because of the budget!  Hello, expensive!!  But also, we get a LOT of solicitors in our neighborhood, and my no soliciting sign does not always stop them.   So, often times I check out my trusty little peep hole to decide if I am going to answer.  If I had a window on my front door, it would be hard to look through and see who is there, before deciding on whether or not to answer the door, cause they could see me.  But I promise, I have a solution that will work!  (Thanks Emily for the question!)

In case you want to follow along, check out these posts too:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

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