Girls Bedroom Remodel Part 1

    So this year’s project (aside from organizing) is the girl’s bedroom. We bought our home back in 2008 with all flat white walls. I guess I could have seen them as blank canvases but with little time to dedicate to home decor with toddlers; this was the last thing on my mind. It wasn't till the second baby came along and the walls started to become not so white due to all these cute little hands. I’ve been wanting to something special for their room but have not put much thought into it until started I thinking about our youngest using a big girl bed. The room is about the garage to its kind of long and narrow with the closet and windows in the most usable spaces of walls. :( I know in order to fit another bed in there to accommodate 3 girls, I'm going to have to think of clever storage and eliminate furniture. It has been a slow start so far. I have to work at it when I have spare time which is none.  
    Here are some before shots. As you can see it’s not very clean or organized, that's because I almost forgot any before shots. This room has taken many changes over the last 4 years but its fine time I fix it up nice for our special little girlie's :)

  

So it was off to Pinterest for some inspiration. Here is where I drew some of my ideas from:

  
 

     As for now I only have painted the base colors. I bright sunny yellow and very pretty regal purple for a large accent wall and two smaller ones where the dormer is. I purchased an all over wall stencil for the accent walls from http://www.designerstencils.com/. I wanted to keep the garden theme but make it more chic. I loved the lattice with floral stencil. It had exactly what I was looking for in an all over print without having to draw something out and cut it myself. Stenciling is very time consuming but the end result is awesome. I used some metallic acrylic paint so that from different angles it looks shiny. At first I thought the colors were a little extreme for my liking (could have also been the white walls for so long) but the stenciling softened the purple and made it work.

 

     Once the painting is finished I can start moving on to other projects such as the closet system. It came in today at Wal-Mart (Yeeeahhhh!!!) Putting it together (Booooo!!!) Most of the organization will take place once that is finished. Combining three girls’ dressers into on closet will be interesting. If I end up still having to use a dresser, I wouldn't be too disappointed because I do not have many ideas for where to put their TV and Wii. Then next business is to freshen up the bed frames to a crisp washable white and I have planned an awesome way for my Lexi Poo to store all her jewelry.

So many ideas and too short of nap times. Loving how it’s all turning out so far. Cannot wait to share with what I come up with next.


Love Lots
Steph

How I Made My Kiddies DVD Collection Shrink!

Alrighty so I was on pinterst the other day and I found this clever way to store DVD's. Its quite similar to how I used to store all my Cd's back in the day lol. So I went shopping and bought this @ The Container Store for $25.00. http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10022645&N=&Ntt=cd+storage If you are wondering . . they do sell extras sleeves. lol

So I took out all the dvds and placeed them in the jackets. The only thing I did differently was to crop the titles from the boxes and put them in so the the kids can find them. Not all the  dvds had a picture on them. It was great not only was I able to reduce clutter but I found lots of movies we thought were missing. I wanted to tag back the pin that I found and lo and behold it was also from http://abowlfulloflemons.blogspot.com/ and I even bought the same exact cd conatiner lol. Another fine project done!




I even uncovered more than this and still have over half the space left for more. I beleieve it holds 120 cd's.

Typically they are 5x5 but I trimed and extra 1/8 inch off each side to make them slide in easier.










Put them inside infornt of the movie.

Recycled the boxes :)

The kiddies clean DVD's :)
Happy Organizing
Love Lots
Steph

Sneak Peek of Girls Room Remodel

I seriously cannot remember where this whole project came from. Maybe it had to do with the sharpie drawings my little girl likes to create on the walls. How do I know they are from my sweet little Lexi Poo? She added her signature to the new one she made on my stairway yesterday! I guess ive been meaning to paint there too but not quite yet. Got alot more stenciling to go. Cant wait to post the before and after shots on this one.










Love Lots
Stephanie