So my oldest daughter turned 11 in January and one of the things I promised her was that we could update her room. New paint more specifically. The room had been painted purple with yellow wall accents when she moved into it at age 3. I had been inspired by home decorating shows at the time and thought it would be fun to personalize her room. Did I mention that I'm not terribly creative? My accents switched around at the various junctions in the room and looked like a big mess, but it was her's. She also developed a bad habit of writing on the walls in sharpie!
So I had one guy come and quote the job because I am one of the world's slowest painters. He wanted $250 plus materials including an oil based primer, and it would take 2 days he said. Too much for me, so I started to resign myself to the idea that I would just do it myself. Then I found a second guy to quote the job for me. $100 plus materials and 4 hours max. I jumped on that faster than you can blink.
The pictures below show the process of moving everything. This is much neater than she normally keeps her room.
An added bonus was that I got to pull out all of the junk and state that it wasn't coming back into the room until it was properly sorted. I'm a little nervous that I'll find her on Hoarders one day. Not because she can't let go of stuff, but she seems completely unmotivated to do so.
As you can see, the youngest was very excited about the changes and had to insert herself whenever she could!
So the room is repainted now and she is moving back in. Just yesterday, from the things I stored in her closet, we threw out 5 bags of trash and an unspoken number of empty Lego boxes.
The pictures below show the new color and furniture placement. We are still moving things back in from the bathroom where I stuck them to get them out of the way. She found curtains online (in lime of all colors), but they are out of stock. Eventually, she wants to have this over her bed too. By the way, she chose her color before I showed her these ideas.
I've also got a friend that's planning to help me make a window seat cushion for the window-seat area. I'll post more photos as we continue to add to the room.
Other plans include adding some shelving for her special treasures where we can since that room has such a strange shape.
I'm looking at this rug for the area in front of her bed or the small love-seat.
I'm amazed at how much brighter it is in there and how much larger it looks. Maybe that's due in part to all of the stuff being out!
