Parker and Paige share a room now, so I wanted something that would work for both of them. Nothing too boy and nothing too girl. Plus, the room was desperately crying out for a redo.
Beware: the befores are very scary.
When Parker was born, my mom made him some adorable black and white bedding. Then she made the valence that coordinated and we put that above the window. I, in a desperate attempt to darken the room for bed/nap times threw up that dark piece of material over the rest of the window. I'm ashamed to say it stayed there for 3 1/2 years.
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| This just shows the general state of the room. yikes! |
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| This is the dresser Parker had for at least 2 years. It was so horrible. The drawers always came off the tracks. |
Now the afters! I'm not quite done. I have a few more wall accessories I'll be adding, but the room is basically done. It is such a difference.
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I just can't believe how much brighter and airier (is that redundant?) it seems. I was a little worried about the red comforters as red is not generally a color I gravitate toward, but it works for now. I may change it sometime in the future, but for right now it works just fine.
This is a before of the dresser. It came from the our room and I transformed it into this:
Again, so much better! This dresser has got to be at least 50 years old. We got it from Parley's Grandpa when we first got married. It served us well, but it was definitely in bad shape. This is just what it needed.
I made this little banner. It was so easy and adds so much to the room. Probably one of my favorite parts!
I found this yesterday at a thrift store for $4.00. I love all the chippy paint and Parker is so excited to use it as his treasure chest!
I have to go into detail on the curtains because they make me smile. They were SO beyond easy. I felt like the red made the room feel a little too stuffy/formal. Do you get what I'm saying? No? Well, the red was just taking the room in a direction that I wasn't wanting to go. So I needed something to tone it all down. For the curtains I used a linen-look material...so much cheaper and so much easier to care for. Then, here's where I got so lazy, but it was exactly what I wanted. I had been inspired by burlap curtains I'd been seeing with the unfinished edges. So I laundered up the fabric and was left with edges that looked like this:
Are they not perfect!
The only hemming I did on these curtains is the top hem where I attached the clips.
Then I ran into another dilemma. I love the look of curtains that just sweep the floor. However, in this house we have baseboards, ugh. Since we'll be moving in about a year (hopefully to a house with out those ghastly baseboards) I decided I'd make them long, then just hem them up. (Ignore the wrinkles...like I said, I'm lazy. I figured gravity will help.)
First I tried it the lazy way (of couse) and I just tacked them up. That looked horrendous.
So this morning, I just sewed them straight across. I knew I needed them about 26" shorter, so I just folded up 26" of fabric then folded half of that back down so it would have the frayed bottom.
And because you love it as much as I do...one more after:
Cost breakdown:
Blankets/cases: $60 total
Paint: some already on hand, but then bought about $20 worth more
Material for curtains, pillows (yeah, I made those too, but don't look too close, they are kind of lumpy) and banner: $15
Accessories: $4 (the chest) all others are/will be stuff we already have around
Furniture: All stuff we already had=FREE!
Total=$99. Not too bad, I'd say.
Does doing a redo on the cheap give anyone else a thrill?! Maybe I'm just a dork. But it really makes me happy!
