Here is a glance at the room with the doors we added. I painted them and he screwed them to the wall. The toy brand Melissa and Doug sometimes packs their toys in these wooden boxes and I knew I would make use of them someday. These boxes were recycled from old toy boxes. I added more shelving mostly for decorative purposes. I painted it a dark blue and then took some watered down white paint and white washed the whole thing with a rag trying to leave it as streaky as I could. The desk was custom made (for around 20 bucks) by my dear husband. It is usually a mess – but I suppose that means she is making good use of it. The previous owners of the house left an old school pencil sharpener in the basement, so we put it in her room. That doll was made for me when I got married by a sweet neighbor lady. We also added any other cute vintage stuff we could gather to the shelf. This shelf has been through a lot of remodels. I love the red and yellow paint streaking through after the sanding. I painted it white years ago – but then sanded it good to fit this room. The shelf was originally red when I bought it. She loves arts and crafts so with an old shelf (bought at a garage sale years ago for 5 bucks) we stocked all the supplies she needs. Just to the side of those crates is more storage. This way we can store and display all sorts of cute childhood treasures. So under the window we bolted on some old crates I bought at a antique store for 10 dollars each. My main goal for the whole room was to make it as functional for a growing girl as I could, yet maintain the cottage charm I’m going after. I can’t resist showing you these pics of my girl playing with her almost finished shutters.Īll the girls think they are pretty fun, and they add some special character to the room.īeing such a small room, I needed to get creative with storage space. What I love about them is that they do provide the privacy when we want it, and we made them so plenty of natural light still spills in the room when they are shut. My husband pulled those together with a total of 15 bucks in wood. After researching blinds and custom made shutters – I knew we could only afford to make some. Because this room is at the front of the house it needed privacy. Now I will run through the pictures and fill you in on the things we made and the things that have special meaning. I have no need (or furniture) for such a room, so that is why we installed doors and made it a bedroom. It is actually meant to be the formal living room right by the front door as you enter. I knew this room really had to look good because of where it is placed in the house. We borrowed a paint sprayer from my brother-in-law, and taped up the room. What we did to get in the cracks was spray it. (Update: We didn’t paint the walls before we planked. It was indeed necessary for the look I wanted. He didn’t think it was necessary – but oh how wrong he was. He did a great job, even though he pretty much complained the whole time. Then my husband took an ENTIRE DAY planking the walls and ceiling. We began by going to Lowe’s and having them cut cheap plywood sheets into 6 inch wide strips for us. Not good for a 6 year old’s innate creativity.
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