Create to Decorate: Room Makeover.

I can't believe my daughter is almost all grown up...it seems like she was just getting new a Barbie comforter set for Christmas last year??? Actually it was more like 12 years ago...LOL Now that she's 18 it's definitely time to update the look of her bedroom. .

What we're going for is something in between Cosmo Girl & Pottery Barn.

First we had to take down tons of posters and stickers on the walls and fill all the pinholes. Next we applied a coat of primer to cover some unauthorized "Sharpie" drawings. Some scrubbing and a little primer later we have nice clean walls to work with.

This "makeover" will include .. new paint, a new bed, comforter, area rug, lamps and a coat of paint on all the furniture. Some items we'll look for at the Goodwill and some from Ross and Target and maybe WalMart... our budget for this room hopefully will be under $300.00 dollars.. including the furniture. The twin mattress we got from Bedmart at their $99.00 sale

The bed is a Pottery Barn style with a bookcase headboard and a large drawer that pulls out from underneath.. it's a twin bed so we are going for sort of a daybed look, plus it gives her more space in the room. .. The sheet set came with a bed skirt... we don't need that.. so the material from the bed skirt was used to create decorative throw pillows for the bed.

What we have already is a Bohemian comforter set from Ross...$19.00 includes comforter, sheets, pillowcase, pillow shams... The bed we got at a yard sale for $40.00. The armoire that houses her TV and movies, games etc. is from the Goodwill $20.99. A fresh coat of white paint and new knobs spruced it up quite nicely.

The comforter is turquoise, brown, pink and white.

This looks so cute.. this was a dark wooden chair..$3.49. I sprayed it turquoise and used a brown satiny napkin to recover the seat.. snazzy huh? It will match this bedroom perfect.

Plus as an added bonus the nakpins came in a package of 6... that's enough for a couple more pillows. You can never have to many pillows .. Right?

The room already had a little unfinished wash stand, we painted that Coffee Bean Brown and added a mirror from the thrift store that cost $10.99. We also put on dark brass drawer pulls that match the armoire and topped the whole thing off with a coat of clear plastic Minwax Semi-Gloss .