The Girl's Room

So, for the past gazillion weeks I've been working on painting, organizing and rearranging Kiki and Debris' room. Today, I am finally done! Yay! I actually finished painting and organizing last week, but then I had ribbon boards to make, and that ended up being ribbon boards AND cupcake wall art. So, here goes pics of it all.

Before:

Yes, I know it looks like I'm painting. That's because I'd moved furniture around and was doing prep work, and then I realized, hey, I should take "before" pics! I'm a planner that way.

During... Kiki and Debris discovered that closet doors make great stuffed animal slides off your newly stacked bunk beds. I try to pretend I don't know about all the other monkey business that goes on in a very unsafe fashion on those bunk beds. Their jungle would be complete only if I'd let them hang ropes from the ceiling.

And, finally, how it looks today! I'll admit, it's so matchy-matchy, it makes me feel a little twitchy. I'm not completely thrilled with it. But, I think that's because the colors are so intense, I couldn't think of a good way to pull a third, or fourth, if you don't count white, color in. The rest of my house is in bold colors, but not intense colors, if that makes sense. Also, this has such an intense pink, (blech!), it's hard for me to get overly excited. I don't mind pink in small tasteful doses. My kids both love it tho, so the pink was for them, and the green was for me. The very best (and worst!) thing about this paint job though, is that I painted all of the moldings and closet doors white... what a horrible chore that was! But, I'm glad I did it... I really can't wait to do that in the rest if the house. Normally I prefer wood, but this is fake wood, and it looks terrible--IMHO. So, I'll be glad to have it all creamy white. (I forgot to take pics of the newly painted closet doors!) The thing that I am very pleased with tho, is the green, it matches their sheets perfectly. I thought that was going to be a horrible color to match up, and I took the a scrap of the sheets into Lowe's and they had a color that matched it perfectly. Yay!

Pics of individual pieces...

The curtains... I got these sheets to stage their room in our Vancouver house to sell, I got an extra set to make curtains with for this house. I'm so glad I did! All that fabric has come in handy a few times!

Cupcake wall art, made with fabric scraps...
One of their ribbon boards.... These are a HUGE hit with Kiki and Debris.More cupcake wall art... Debris, to be precise.And, Kiki's...Their reading nook/musical instrument playing area.
So, when I set these bunkbeds up, the matresses were in the beds the wrong way, so their heads are out at the end, instead of in the corner. I figured I'd fix it after I washed the sheets. I tried to fix it today, and the girls HAD A COW! So, I guess their heads will be sticking out. I started to just change it anyway, but then realized that the beds would be a lot easier to make this way. So I left it! And, the best thing about their room being "pretty", and most of all, their toys being organized, is that I'm noticing they are spending A LOT more time in their room. Also, their messes seem to be confined to that room more. Makes getting other things done around here a lot easier.

Have a great weekend!