girls room

Purple Bedroom to Ooh La La on a Budget

by Susan on March 17, 2011

in Bedrooms,Before & After,Decorating,Kids & Play Rooms

My five year old articulated it well when she first saw her new room.

“It looks like Barney threw up in here.”

The walls and doors were dark purple, and all the trim was dark pink. Seeing how we would be the ones painting it, I thought I would throw up too. That’s a big job!

mls photo

MLS photo

Before we could chicken out, we quickly started priming, thus committing ourselves to the project. And oh yes…the closet was dark purple too. Oh joy.

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A Non-Princess Pink Room

by Susan on June 3, 2009

in All About Color,Bedrooms,Before & After,Decorating,Kids & Play Rooms

Most little girls will want a pink bedroom at some point in their early lives.  Here’s a redesign project where a four year old girl reached a compromise with mom.  A pink room, but without any princess influence.

Doable?  Absolutely. For under $200? You bet.

The strategy was to let pink be pink, but anchor it with earthier brown, and use accessories to bring in a subtle bohemian bird theme.

Without further adieu, here are the before and after pictures (details and costs of what we did are at the end of this post)

Before

Before

After

After

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