C-dizzy!

So after living here nine months...I finally did some decorating in C-dizzy's room.

Her room at our old house had a toddler bed...so when we moved in here it was time for a big girl bed. In a rush to get it set up I just picked up a comforter set that was affordable and I liked some what. I got it home put it on and WOW not so much love....it was just a little to bold for a three year old in my opinion.

I LOVE white so this bold pattern was just too much for me. (I do know how NOT practical it is for Miss C but seriously whatever you only live once.)
The walls in her room are grey...Silver drop grey. I love this color in Owens room but I was concerned about it in C-Dizzy's... but its not so bad!

I know pretty boring with trendy bedding....not my thing.



So blah so boring....can a child even be creative in a room this lame?

One of my biggest issues when it comes to decor...is I want it to have meaning if I'm going to stare at it everyday. I want to LOVE what I see....and have it reflect us. S-Money and I are total minimalists....we love things to look and feel clean...NO clutter if possible....so although SOME may say her room didn't change much to ME it feels like the walls are going to cave in with so much stuff on them....but it finally feels like home in here and I'm pretty happy with how it came out over all.

I kept the same sheets that came with the set from target....just got a white comforter instead and made her a stacked coins quilt...it was fun to make and I think it came out ok with a little help from my Mom! I got the ideas here and here. (I picked my colors based on a scrapbook paper I really liked...I wanted pinks for sure but greens and oranges as well....)


The idea for the monogram wall decor from here. I thought it was the perfect way to represent C-dizzy! Plus I had the baby picture mounted on foam board and I really wanted to reuse it in her room! The other pictures are one of our family pre O-bizzy and then the two kids together! The letters I got from Hobby lobby...the little "C" I painted...the gold one purchased like it is...(it fell off the wall right after I put it up and broke...so I repaired and rehung)...the other "C" I used the scrap book paper I liked and decoupage. The other picture is her baby footprint dressed up like a fairy! It was mounted on solid brown in a brown frame so I used the same scrapbook paper as the "C" and spray painted the frame white!


This wall I was really concerned would be to heavy with the large painting on it but it turned out ok...the painting is the reason I used a few gold accents...gold is NOT my favorite but this painting is framed in a beautiful gold frame so I just went with it! It was my painting but thought it was fun to hand it down to C-dizzy! (Although gold wasn't my first choice I think it totally warmed up the room and was a great choice even if by default.)


That shelf looks a little high....it might be...O-bizzy gets into everything so I thought it would be safer a little higher on the wall. The topiary I had and was so happy the bottom was gold. I kind of think every room needs some sort of nature...real or fake its just a nice touch.


The little table and chairs my brother made for Callie for her birthday last year...she LOVES them. The cute vase is plastic can you believe it? I found it on clearance and the flowers were in my room but C-dizzy is always playing with them anyway so they made the move to her room and she was thrilled!
The picture above the vanity is a shadow box I have always had I just changed the back ground to match that of the "C" on her shelf above the bed!

It was such a fun project...mostly to find things from all over he house to tie things together in her room. I was lucky to have had a birthday in the middle so I got some gift cards to help with the things I did purchase for her. I still hope to do a few things...make a small curtain for her window....(S-Money hates curtains...so it has to be cool.) Change out the knobs on her dresser...something shiny or sparklie will be perfect. Hang her chandelier...but I need it to be hard wired in so the electrician will have to help me out on that! And I think a rug would be great in there! I also think a box spring is a must....now that I'm not worried about her rolling off I need to make that purchase!

The most important part....C-dizzy loves it and feels at home in there...so I feel like I did an alright job. Now to keep O-bizzy off that white bed!

Oh and I cannot forget the original room looked like this....


With good reason she refused to call it her room she wanted nothing to do with the lace curtains and sports border and I think two or three hideous shades of blue...and dont get me started on the carpet. Its made such a great transformation.

Livingroom up date!

So things with this room seem to be going at a snails pace...seriously I'm going nuts over here! I've painted it twice...swatched a bazillion dollars worth of paint samples on the wall....and it is just crawling along...I don't get it this room was supposed to be so fast there isn't much too it. Its seriously a glorified entry.
Ill post the befores a little early anyway...I'm anxious and maybe if I post them...then it will move faster...you never know right?
This first one is looking IN the room from the now "mudroom" that we are doing at the same time so it will hopefully be included in the pictures as I go along.

Wow this picture makes this room look even smaller then it is...that monstrosity that is in the corner was someones lame idea for storage a million selves...and a closet WOW it was big...and is now GONE! I don't think saying BIG does it justice...seriously people this ONE unit filled up the trailer...it was massive. The door straight ahead is the master bedroom....the door to the right is the hall to the kitchen and rest of the house. FYI not my blue couch I'm nearly positive that they built the house around it!
The other side of the room looking from the master out looks like this....

The lovely valance above the window was complete with fluorescent lights....I know awesome...plus the window itself was infested with ANTS a lot of them....a ton of ants. So gross for so many reasons I'm so happy both the valance and old window...ok and the ants are all gone!! YAY! We originally took this window OUT can were not going to replace it because we are going to put a wood stove in this room and picked that corner for it. Then we changed our minds cut out the drywall and put the window BACK in...(a new window of course) and I'm glad for it. I love all the natural light we can get!
The next view is of the window that is on the front of the house...it was built at a very strange angle half window half planter outside....notice there is NO front door in this room....on the front of the house...we fixed that YAY! Oh and the ugly window had a GIANT valance exactly like the one above the other window only lucky for us...it was three times the size of the other one...and that was all the lighting in the room...what?


So the outline of this room....put in wood stove....convert super strange entry (if you can call it that) into mud room, at respectable entry, remove hideous storage unit, replace windows,flooring, add can lights and ceiling fan PAINT! Doesn't seem that hard right? We have done all of these things before...WHY on earth is this taking FOREVER!
Here are some snap shots I took today....
MUD room area....

I do have a couple of pictures of this during the actual construction/take out door project but they will have to come later as I don't have them handy at the moment and I'm boring myself with this post.
This crappy shot is the new window....where ants used to live and the wall to the left of it...its an awesome grey totally worth all the samples I tried to find this one...I hope to use it in a couple of other places in the house.


This next photo is of the area were the built in used to be...turns out the plentiful storage in the bathroom sticks out into this room...so we have a really cool angled wall where that built in used to be. Sean put some awesome shelves in and we plan to hang a painting above them it turned out so great!

Tomorrow I'll take a much better picture of the entire room...its looking really good...just have to put the rock up that goes behind the wood stove...install the wood stove and do the flooring. I seriously cannot wait to decorate this room...its going to be so awesome. I've never had a separate living and family room...I'm totally looking forward to it!

Finally a respectable entry (and 25$ bargin front door) beats the interior door that was once the front door on this house...LAME! Of course Bocefus at his perch!