Many Wings: Little Girls Room Makeover

We've lived in our current home for over 2 years and finally got around to re-doing our little girls room. {The bright side to a few days of freezing weather so Abe could be home long enough to work on it!} Three of our little girls share a fairly small bedroom. We have a beautiful Pottery Barn trundle bed and armoire, but these both took up the majority of the room with little room for them to play. The walls were painted a dark brown and the paint was textured showing up every little scuff mark. Yup, this room really needed a face lift! With the help of my very handy husband and a day trip to IKEA (complete with Swedish meatballs) the new room turned out beautiful!

Our long term plans are to add a second story to our house. This room will eventually house the stairs leading to the second story, with this room possibly becoming a craft/sewing room. But for now it will need to continue to be the bedroom for our little girls, ages 3, 5 and 6. Since they are small enough, I decided to give them more space by giving them all toddler beds (which we already had).

The new room is so bright and cheerful!

I had Abe put up wood bead-board 6 feet up the wall which he painted white to brighten up the room and make it feel much bigger. He added a ledge all the way around the room giving us lots of room to put knick-knacks and pictures, well out of reach of little hands. We painted the top part of the wall a light beige color. We hung a canopy tent in the corner with tie-backs that serves both as decoration as well as imaginary play. PJs are stored in bins under each of their beds.

I found these cute wicker chairs, little stools and table at IKEA, perfect for little girl's tea parties.

These fun alphabet cards were a present from my mother-in-law several years ago, and were my inspiration for adding a ledge to the room. Aren't they fun?