Before and After

So this post has been a long time coming. Hailey and Maggie's room was pink with butterfly stencils when we moved in. Not their favorite, but it worked well enough and there was neither enough time nor money to re-decorate every thing (OK we've really only done the front room and dinning area), but I'd promised the girls we'd give them a little more sophisticated room.



Madison was sharing a room with Hailey for a while, now we've got her in with Logan. It's working ok, but Logan would rather she weren't in there. Can you blame him?


Sad, sad furniture.


Ugly bubble gum pink paint.


Matching furniture wasn't in the budget, so we "gathered" pieces here and there, and painted them chocolate brown to match.
This sad little guy we picked up for $5 at a yard sale.


Another yard sale, another $5. (we fixed that bottom drawer)


...and free from a neighbor.


Hailey picked out the paint color. It's called Jamaican Dream. LOVE it. But how to make it coordinate with the pink and brown comforters they picked out really did keep me up at night.


The end result: A tropical themed room. This is Hailey's bed. The bed set is Roxy and it totally looks like board shorts. I painted 3 hibiscus flowers on the wall (you can't see the brown one).


Her beloved book case containing her fondest treasures: her books.


I brought back sand and shells from Florida, so I bought these hurricanes from Walmart ($3 ea) and added a candle and VOILA! Beautiful if I do say so myself.


Maggie's night stand. Free from a friend. Painted white with a tea stain glaze to "shabby" it down.


Maggie's dresser and shell collection.


Maggie's bed. I plan to do a painting to go above her bed too.


I'd still love to add some paper lanterns to the ceiling, a palm tree in the corner and I still don't know what to do with this GIANT EMPTY wall. (Actually I have plenty of visions of what COULD be done with it, it's fitting it into my budget that's the problem).


The girls love it, and that's what really counts right?