A Teens Chic Bedroom

Our youngest just had her 16th Birthday...

This was her gift...

A New Room! 

Time to remove the "princess".  

 It still has a really pretty feel but
before it was too young.
We knew we wanted to keep the carpet,
its in the basement, and we knew we wanted white
trim work, doors and furniture.  We searched pinterest
and came up with a visual plan. If you click here
you can see the pinterest  board of inspiration.

Once we had our plan we went shopping.

We got lucky, on our second stop in search

of a new comforter we found this one!

She fell in love with it ...so did I.

And it worked with her lavender sheets

YAY!

After purchasing the bedding we headed to

Home Depot and checked out their paint chips

 and curtains. This curtain worked well with the

shadows of the damask and it has 

insulating qualities...perfect!

I just had to hem it up by about 5 inches.

I know, I know I should have raised

 the curtain rod instead, oops.

So, armed with the bedding, curtain and paint chips,

we headed home.  I always like to see the paint chips 

at different times of the day in the room to be painted. 

It  shows me all the shades I will see once

painted on the walls.  I usually change my mind 3 or 4 times

 and then end up with the original pick anyways, but it

 is a process I need to go through.

While we were deciding on a paint color,

 the ceiling got a few coats of white.  The blue ceiling was fun

but really dark...it took a lot of paint to cover it.

Once we had the right grey picked, we painted all the walls

in Porpoise, Berh, flat paint.  It took two coats to cover the purple.

 We let the flat paint dry over night, then the fun

began. We stencilled with the same color paint, in high gloss.

The stencilling was a long process, but worth every minute! 

I have always wanted to try this effect ..gloss on flat

paint...and I LOVE IT.

After walls were finished and the trim freshened up 

I painted her side table and dresser.

I don't know if you can tell in the before picture,

but the dresser had a pink weathered look. I try really hard to

use what we already have.  Partly because I am cheap, but

I also think paint will give it that new lease.  I love

the look of painted furniture...it feels 'cottage-y'.

  I used high gloss,  Dove White, Berh paint. 

 Clean crisp white.

Sadly, the new ceiling light isn't doing it for me. :/

I am not even going to show you...

(it's horrible).

It is too small, and a little awkward...

And there is a heat vent right beside it. 

:/

We kept the closet handles and curtain rod,

they work well with the look we are going for.

A fun look is the Mini Christmas

 lights. We rummaged around in our Christmas 

decorations and pulled out our white lights. 

 They look so pretty over the dresser mirror.

As soon as we got to this point I grabbed my

 camera and snapped all the pictures I could.  Like

 most teens, her room never really looks like this.  

You probably don't like the dumped out

dresser look either.

All we need is the right art work for

some color and it is complete.

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