Shared Girls Room Reveal
Welcome to the reveal of one of my favorite rooms in our house.
It caused some of the most headache design wise because it was soooo small…it’s a classic case of “when at first you don’t succeed and everything looks crappy”.
This was the room we started with before we moved in. And then we made it a smidge smaller (so we could have a bigger closet in the master bedroom…because parents pay the bills and thus always get priority).
Below is the room after renovation, with a hodge podge of items that I already owned. I still love the curtains, and hope to use them in a different room someday.
That bed was a disaster DIY project. I was pregnant with #2 and too lazy to refinish it the correct way, so I ended up having to refinish it multiple times and still didn’t like it, so I sold it on craiglist and bought a white bunk bed.
Originally I was going to try to use some of the items we already owned and created these two mood boards which look good in theory, but not in real life for a room this size.
After deciding we needed to go in a fun monochromatic direction, I came up with this mood board….the wallpaper had always been a favorite and I had contemplating using it in other colors in other areas, but the gold on white was perfect for this room.
The wallpaper is Underwater World by Hygge & West in the white & gold. The white bunk bed is from Wayfair and the crib is from Ikea. (we shortened the crib legs so it could fit under the bunk bed) (I didn’t want a tall bunk bed for my 5 year old, so sawing the crib legs was the safer way to go).
We measured and shortened legs BEFORE we put crib together, which was easier, but somewhat of an oopsie, because with the crib mattress at the lowest point, there is a bolt that sticks down past the crib leg (see pic), There was no way to really know this ahead of time. We’ve fixed the issue by putting the crib on some furniture sliders, so it lifts it up slightly so bolt doesn’t dig into our wood floors. This also makes it easier to slide the crib out if we need to put in a sleeping two year old.
The dresser we already owned- it was a craigslist find that I had refinished back in 2013. I still like it, but am contemplating selling it or refinishing it again.
We already owned the white eames rocker (a reproduction we bought from amazon), and the gold table/stool from target. The stool doubles as storage- our girls keep their dress up clothes and costumes in there, so it’s easy to pick up after play time. (The stool was from Target, but I don’t think they sell it anymore)
The white driftwood lamp, we got from an old garage sale years ago. I painted it white to blend in. The light fixture is from etsy, and if you look close you can see hearts on it. It was my own attempt at being slightly cheesy, as my oldest girl only has a half a heart and has had a bunch of heart surgeries (strangely enough, the etsy shop did not sell light fixtures with half hearts, so we adapted).
The lucite bookshelf is from Cb2 and since it’s clear, gives the visual impression of more room in this tiny room. Also bonus it doesn’t look like it belongs in a kid room, so is more versatile down the road. (I would’ve never spent that much for it for a kids room, if I wasn’t planning on using is somewhere else in our next house).
The shaggy rug is a less than $100 find from rugs usa. It’s so soft and great, and held up wonderfully for a few years until our youngest daughter puked in it during a particularly nasty bout of noro virus…those were fun times.(I’ve recently learned they don’t sell it anymore- but I’ve had good luck with their rugs!)
I debated for a long time on what to do for artwork and wall décor, but settled on super simple, because I didn’t want to take away from the wallpaper. Just a few simple family pics and a boho macramé thing from world market.
The curtain rods were a DIY thing, and the white curtains are a $10 Ikea special.
The window trim is painted Sherwin Williams Tricorn Black. (this is the best black ever- such a true black without undertones of different colors). (see our post here to get pics of all the places we used tricorn black in this project).
And there you have it- the details on everything behind our shared girls room in our East Grand Rapids Sunset Lake Blvd project!