Caitlyn's bedroom remodel

We had always planned to spend part of our spring break making over Caitlyn's room!

Paint makes such a difference!

The biggest change is the painting: wall color and trim, but don't discount the de-cluttering and furniture re-arrangement. Before starting decluttering, Caitlyn and I discussed what activities would be done in her room.  We decided those activities would be sleeping, getting dressed, reading and homework.  Therefore crafting moved down to the basement.  (Yes, I "guided" her on this one.)

Our first order was to repair the ceiling.  We hadn't had any water since the 2nd week we lived in the house, so we felt it would be ok to repair the ceiling.. you probably caught this picture I posted to Instagram as soon as we were on Spring Break.

Once that was dry, Jared was able to paint the trim, Josh got in on the walls and we had a beautiful blue-green watery turquoise color!

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Caitlyn and I had spent a little time each afternoon before break going through a corner of her room. We were able to get rid of a lot of books that weren't challenging enough for her anymore that she could give to cousins or the Little Free Library.  A lot of toys went downstairs.  Other really small Mc-Donalds toy type items were trashed.  Once the room was painted, we were able to move furniture.  She really wanted a space to read, so we put her bookshelf in the opposite corner, swapped the dresser and desk.  The dresser is now outside the closet, which makes sense.  She wanted to move her bed to the window wall. At first, I liked how her bed was centered on the wall, but it created a little alcove where things went to hide, and broke up the space. The way things are now, she has two places to sit and read: on one side of her bed, as well as between her desk and bookshelf.  She also realized that with some decluttering, she can sit and write at her desk, whereas she couldn't before!

Her theme for this room was unicorns, so we kept the balloon from her 6th birthday, got new bedding, and I presented her with a treasure box and lamp that I had gotten back in November. (You can see these under the side table in the first picture above.)

Caitlyn also really loves to build legos, from Harry Potter to Lego Friends to just about anything.  She had run out of room on her display shelf, I mean, dresser. So we installed a floating shelf we had gotten from IKEA months ago, in anticipation of this remodel.  It was so great to see many of the things we had gotten along the way, finally get installed.

She has not stopped hugging me for how happy she is in her room!

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We took the bedroom and closet doors off to paint, but realized that the closet door often got in the way when she walked in. (And maybe I didn't want to paint it?) So instead, we hung up a tension rod inside and got a billowy sheer curtain that can slide to the side.  She can get dressed in her closet.  We also edited a lot of the clothes that were in the closet, made more specific places for her jewelry.  Hung a couple of hooks (one dedicated to her robe, you can't see, and the other for "today's outfit.)

We also got black hardware for her door, as we are changing that throughout the house. When we moved in, we changed the light to a differnt ceiling fan, and had previously installed faux wood blinds.  Its a far cry from what the house looked like when we toured it almost 3 years ago!