Lily's Garden Room

I've been so busy working on projects for the house this past week!  Between painting hallways, tons of landscaping outside, scrubbing down the screen porch from top to bottom, and numerous other essential (but unexciting chores), I've hardly found time for fun projects.  I did get a huge sideboard stained and painted and is waiting on new hardware and finally got to put the finishing touches on my middle daughter's room...

I mentioned back in January that I wanted to wrap up all the little projects around the house and finally get the rest of my house tour completed.  Lily's room was no exception as it was 95% completed months ago...I just needed to put on the finishing touches and take some pictures.

It's actually been a year since I shared her art desk makeover.  Lily's a first grader who loves to draw, color, and create.  She's actually painted a few furniture pieces too!  She's also a girl who loves bright colors (what little girl doesn't at this age?) and true to her name, she loves to garden and plant flowers...

She'll remind me when I need to water the plants and is now getting old enough to takeover that chore :)  It's also only natural for her bedroom to reflect who she is, which is why she has a bright, cheery garden-inspired room...

The starting point for this room was using her existing dresser which I scored off of Craig's List before we moved for only $75 (including the pink glass pulls)...

We also moved her nightstands...one used to be my husband's childhood nightstand that I freshened up with paint and the other was a $20 garage sale find...

Right before we moved out to NC, I also found a super cute iron bed for $125 in need of some TLC that made the trip out as well...

The bed had about three layers of old, and probably lead-based paint, that my wonderful husband patiently stripped off and re-painted with bright pink spray paint (and sealed)... Did I mention that Lily is a total "daddy's-girl"?

The $65 Craig's List art desk and $5 chair were painted to coordinate with the rest of the furniture and already-owned artwork, lamps, etc.

One of my favorite things in the room are the flower alphabet cards that I just casually hung throughout part of the room.  They have such great illustrations...

Her room (and Summer's) were a bit of a challenge to figure out furniture placement since one entire wall is made up of doors for the closet and the entrances to the jack-and-jill bathroom and hallway.  Luckily, her toys and dollhouse all fit nicely in the closet!

One of the last few projects to get completed was getting the right chandelier installed.  I had actually found a cute flowered chandelier for her room at a vintage sale back in Spokane...again, before we picked up and moved.  After attempting to install it in Lily's room and quickly figuring out that it needed to be re-wired, I lost patience with it and stuck it in my booth for a low price (and a note saying that it needed work)...

I'm glad to say that it went to a good home!  In the meantime, I'd found another chandelier for $50 (that worked), but was spray-painted hunter green.  Out came the bright-pink spray paint again...

I also used a little Pure White Chalk Paint to set the flowers off a bit.  The room was pretty much done, but Lily had one more request...

Tissue poms!  Yes, they've been done a million times, but Lily wanted them and I love the look of them in here.  Her room is so cheerful...I don't mind hanging out in there with her at all!  I also like the fact that all the furniture was only $290 (plus paint) and with all the accessories and bedding, it still was approx. $500 top-to-bottom (sources below).  That's a kid's room budget I can handle!

Kristen

Sources:  

Curtain panels, alarm clock - Target (clearance)

Bedding - TJ Maxx

Lamps - Joann Fabric (clearance)

Alphabet Cards, canvas artwork - Eeboo

Paint Colors - Walls "Spirit Whisper" Behr, Pink Nightstand "Cotton Candy", Green Nightstand "Key Lime" Behr, Desk "Watermelon" Behr & "Pure White" Chalk Paint

Bed, Dresser, Desk, Nightstands, Chair, Chandelier - Vintage finds

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