Designing a bedroom with a 10 year old.

My ten year old has decided she wants a new room. She no longer cares for her furniture, the pink, green and purple striped walls (which is way cute, of course) or her bedding. I'm having a hard time getting her to realize that I do this for a living and she should just trust me! She wants to trade furniture with her sister, which of course sister said, "No way!" I think I've convinced her that we can paint hers white and switch out the mirror which she thinks is hideous. I know that her Daddy will appreciate this (not buying new furniture, that is), even though I may have a hard time convincing him that it is ok to paint stained wood furniture. He also has a hard time trusting me!

Anyway, we are leaning towards painting the walls lavendar and the ceilings a lighter shade, I want to glitter glaze on the ceiling, but she's not sure about that. We are thinking black and white polka-dots for the bedding and that is as far as we've gotten. Since I've told her this will be part of her Christmas we are in no rush....at least I'm not! I will keep you posted as the project progresses!

Easy Window Treatment Idea

So what if you bought a bed-in-a-bag set and you can't find a window treatment to match or it's too expensive, or sold out? Well, check and see if they have any flat sheets that match and use that as your fabric. It's great because it's already hemmed. You can drape it over a decorative rod or bunch it up on each side, rubber band it, creating a rosette and tack it to your wall, without using a rod. I did a combination of this recently with a client. She had scarves left over from a previous house. One was too short and two made it too long. I rubber banded the ends together to make a rosette in the middle of the window, draped it over a rod several times and then made another rosette on each side of the window and it turned out great. She was happy because she got to recycle window treatments on which she had spent a lot of money. Her husband was out of town at the time, but I'm sure he was happy about that too!