Mae Mae’s room and a FREEBIE… {House Tour continued}

…so Stella and Mae Mae have shared a room since little Tessa Mae was born.

…and now that we have moved Stella to her own space, we did a little tiny revamp on Tessa’s room and this is what we ended up with:

I wish I had taken a picture of what it looked like when Stella was in it.

This is what it looked like when we put an offer on it:

I left the tree up for a while after we moved in because the girls liked it; and I had green pillows so it worked.

I was getting tired of the tree, so we took it out, got rid of the green in the room, and added some black and orange to the already pink and blue.

I got the color inspiration from our already existing playroom; and I didn’t want to spend any money.

I also love the challenge of re-doing with what you already have. 

I knew the majority of our playroom stuff would look great in Tessa’s room.

….and since we were getting rid of the playroom to make a new bedroom for Jex it worked out perfect.

This is what the playroom looked like:

The playroom is now Jex’s room(more to come on that real soon.)

We used a majority of the furniture in Tessa’s room for Stella’s new room.

I knew that would be fine because I could replace it with some fun 4 year old girly pieces we had in the playroom.

Like the cutest pink retro kitchen, and most adorable white table.

…but with the bringing up of the playroom furniture that also meant bringing up all the toys.  Thankfully Tess has a great closet for that.

The only thing I bought new for Tessa’s room was this orange pillow.

I saw this cute idea for a printable on Pinterest a while back; idea found here.

I decided I wanted one for our playroom; but I needed different colors.

So I made my own, and added one to say and he has sent me here.

I loved them so much in the playroom, and wanted to bring them in to this space.  These prints were really the jumping off point for adding the orange and black to her room.

( previous playroom)

I also sewed the banner for the playroom, but love how it looks strung around the room for Tess.

This room makes me so happy.

I hand painted this sign with some old wood I found in our basement before we moved to this house.  It has been here in the girls room since we moved in…and so it stays here; because I love them to the moon and back.

One of the best features to this room is the custom trim and molding.  It gives this room such character.  I fell in love with this bedroom when I saw the house online.  It’s fun to be decorating it now.

If you would like to have this printable for your own house(without the watermark, of course)…

you can download it by clicking on the prints.

The are FREE and to be used for personal use only.

See how cute they look side by side:

Sorry they are only available in this color.

Thanks to Courtney Aitken for the idea of the first print.

She has some really wonderful prints; you should check them out.

For those of you who don’t know where this saying comes from, you will enjoy listening to this beautiful song; and feel the spirit that is involved with it.  It is a song our children sing at church.  I have been singing it since I was a little girl, and I have been singing it to my children since they day they were born.

First verse to the song, “I am a child of God”:

written by Naomi W. Randall

I am a child of God

and he has sent me here

has given me an earthly home

with parents kind and dear

Lead me, Guide me, walk beside me

help me find the way

teach me all that I must do

to live with Him someday.

This song is a reminder to me that it is my job to help these beautiful children learn the way.  We are each his children, and we can all help each other follow His footsteps.

It’s nice to see these words on the wall in my home, and reminder of my job to lead, guide, and walk beside.

 

A new place to lay your head: Stella’s new room

We have always had our children share a room.  Even from the time they were babies they shared.  I have loved every minute of watching our kids grow closer in their shared rooms.

There has always been lots of giggling, story telling, snuggling and so much fun being had in those rooms.

However, the time came to split up the kids.  It was more about separating tweens from children; then separating the fun. 

I was actually so sad to have my kids not share anymore; but it became a matter of necessity. 

Of course, we could have kept kids together and put the olders and the youngers together; but we had the extra bedrooms so it made since not to mix girls with boys.

I thought you might enjoy seeing the finished products.

We have lived in this home for almost a year now, and I haven’t even shared their original bedrooms here on the blog. 

I guess it’s time to continue on with our house tour.

I tried to do this on the smallest budget and bought very little.

I also did the switch and put all the rooms together in just a weekend.

Today I will give you the tour of Stella’s room.

Stella moved down to our guest room.

Here is the before:

I put this guest space together when we moved in; using all the extra stuff I had.  The only thing I bought for this space were the curtains(my mom actually bought them for my birthday.)

Here it is as Stella’s room:

We kept the bed and bedding.  We added the colors of mint, coral, gold, navy, and pink; Stella’s choice.

We used furniture that we already had in her old room. 

The owl pillow was something she just had to have.  I have one in our family room; and she requested the same for her room. 

Hobby Lobby $9.99

This lamp was our jumping off point.  We found it and centered the whole room around it. 

Target $20.

This chalkboard was something I made out of some old kitchen cabinets found in an old home that was being torn down. 

I chose the quote because of her determination at her recent mile run.  She believed she could do it; and she did.

This vanity was in her old room.

We painted the knob on this vanity and the base of the chair with some gold spray paint, and recovered the top with some navy fabric.

I bought the white frames at IKEA and Hobby Lobby, and I bought this print from a cute little Etsy shop; found here.

You will also notice I used some beautiful mint spray paint to paint some accessories, and pieces of furniture we had.

The gold spray paint once again came in handy on the handles. Sometimes it’s the little touches.

I picked up this lamp base at our local thrift shop for $4.  I added the shade picked up at Walmart for $7.

Stella wanted a wall of prints.  We picked these out on Etsy also.  They all came from this shop here.

I had a few of the frames, some came from IKEA, and the owl canvas came from another room in the house.

We already had this Paris print in another part of our home.  It totally belongs in this space.

…and I just can’t get rid of these dance prints of Stella that have been in her room for years.

I shopped my Christmas storage bin and pulled out my hanging star light from IKEA as a nice touch.

It’s may favorite at night.

Good night Stella…

I am so glad we could give you a new space.