I love moving things around and rearranging. It always feels like I’ve created a new space with the same furniture…it is a no cost renovation in my mind. Recently, we moved the girls room around. They are loving the change and as usual…I’m loving the price. It was totally free.
As you can see above, we moved the placement of the beds as well as put them back to being bunk beds. It gave my girls more floor space and made the room feel more spacious.
Before moving things around, we had a couple of problem spots. First of all, there was very little floor space. What floor space was open, was usually filled with toys or made into some sort of American Girl Doll room.
The other problem spot was under the beds. Shockingly, by moving the beds around we fixed this problem (even with less under bed storage space).
While I was at it, I had the girls tidy up their bulletin boards, which had been totally overrun with too much stuff. Can you see how the floor space is being used for an AG bedroom in the lower left hand corner? Cute but hard to walk around with this little floor space.
We, thankfully, had separated the bunk beds a couple of years ago. It was right before I tore cartilage in my hip. Thank goodness they were separated because I never would have been able to change sheets with my hip injury. Now that injury is well in the past and I can change sheets again.
The girls had been asking for their bunk beds back for quite a while. I was dreading doing it because I remember how heavy the beds are and how hard it was going to be to put them back together. Finally one day, when Mr. T was actually home, we just went for it. As you can see, it really frees up floor space and makes the room feel so much larger. We moved a lot of the stuffed animals that were under the beds, which saved a lot of space and tidied up the under bed area.
If you look to the right end of the bed, you can see Pumpkin’s AG bedroom, which is now not in a walkway…yay!
Pumpkin’s bed used to be on this wall. Now it easily holds their dresser and hamper. The hamper is no longer in the way of the closet doors…which is really nice! In the upper left hand corner of this picture, you can see our fancy light. We can’t have the ceiling fan with the bunk beds or a child might lose a body part or head or something we think is important. 🙂
The bulletin boards got tidied up and some of the stuffed animals got moved to this wall. We have a big stuffed animal problem at our house. ::Sigh::
When we first got the bunk beds, we got these shelves at Pottery Barn Kids (definitely not cheap, but worth it). One is mounted at the end of each girls’ bed. That way they have a little space that is all their own and a place to put books, flashlights and such and so on that they might like in their bed. They do tend to get messy, but since my girls share a room, I feel that giving them each some space of their own in various ways is very important.
Details…I love details. I made the jewelry box for Pumpkin for Christmas. I keep meaning to getting around to making one for Snowflake now that she has pierced ears, too….eventually I’ll have a tutorial for you.
Don’t you just love our fancy light? It was very inexpensive and if I remember correctly (we bought it a few years ago) it was from Lowe’s. I found the cute ‘laugh’ sign at Marshall’s a few years ago.
Here you can see Snowflake’s tidied up bulletin board as well as her AG room. Of course, my kids are still kids and the floor isn’t always visible, but at least they have floor space to dance, play, etc. now and we are all more likely to see the floor even if it is just bits and pieces of it! 😉
What do you think? Bunk beds or single beds? Which layout do you like better? Truthfully, I like the single beds better, but for the space of the room and the fact that they share, I like the bunk beds….at least for now. Have I mentioned that I like to rearrange things A LOT!?
Your daughter’s room is so cute. I like either way but the bunk beds lets them have more space to play. Thanks for sharing their adorable room.
Here is a link to my daughter’s room when she was younger:https://katspurrfectboutique.blogspot.com/2011/06/when-natalie-turned-6.html
Very cute both ways – I am an “arranger” too!
Thank you! Yes it definitely give them more room to play, which is always nice.
Take care,
KC
Thanks! I’m a serial re-arranger…isn’t it fun!? I think it would be so boring to keep things the same all the time.
Take care,
KC
Ooh can’t beat a free room makeover! We are thinking about getting our boys bunk beds soon– they’ve been asking for a while! I love how your girls’ room is so pink and girly and fun! I am totally outnumbered by boys in my house and likely won’t get to paint a room pink any time soon, so I have to live vicariously through you girl mamas! 🙂 Great job on this transformation, KC!
~Abby =)
I like the bunk beds, and the option to move them around now and then is great. Really fees up floor space. Nice job.
We have liked the bunk beds for sure. I bet you will as well if you get them. I’m so glad that I have girls because it would be hard to have only boys and be outnumbered, but I know so many moms of boys that just love it. You can live vicariously through me any time you need a pink fix… we totally have my husband surrounded…lol!
Take care,
KC
Thanks! I LOVE the option to move them around and make them single beds…because as I admitted in the post, I love moving and re-arranging.
Take care,
KC
LOVE the makeover! I just helped a friend re-do his daughters’ room from “little girl” to “teen”. It was so much fun!
Looks good!!
Thanks! That does sound like a lot of fun! I think my oldest daughter is getting close to asking for a more mature room. Not sure what I will do then…separate them into two rooms or come up with another design that works for both of them. For now, they both like sharing a room, so I don’t have to figure it out yet.
Take care,
KC
Thanks!
KC
It’s very nice. Our boys had bunks, twins, bunks, twins…depended on the house, room and size. I worried about leaving a ceiling fan up when they had bunks..In that room there was no way to arrange them ‘around’ the fan….I think the boys were 4 and 6 or 3 & 5…anyway, we never had an injury from the fan. I’d look up to tell Chris to come down…we did make sure that the ladder was at the opposite end from the fan and they would fly up and down that thing….the ONLY kid that ever hit it was my nephew. For some reason, the goofy kid moved the ladder to the other end and before I could grab him, h e went up and into the fan…scared him more than an injury….and head injuries bleed like nobody’s business. So i took him into the bathroom, grabbed the red washcloth that I kept for bloody injuries (they can’t see how much it is bleeding), got it stopped, antibiotic ointment on it and arnica in his mouth. 5 min later they were back on the bunks.
Great ideas! And we ALL have stuffed animal problems, unfortunately! LOL!!!
Don’t you love the flexibility to have twins or bunks. It sounds like you have moved quite a bit and I bet it would be really handy. OMG…your story make me glad we don’t have the fan. While I know you said it wasn’t bad, I’d rather not deal with it to begin with because I can’t imagine dealing with head injury and all the blood. Yuck!
Thanks for stopping by.
KC
Whew! I’m so glad we aren’t the only ones with a zoo over here. Though I think we could start a couple of world class zoos with all our stuffed animals. lol!
KC
It sounds a lot worse than it was…but I swear, 5 min later they were back in the bedroom, Jay moved the ladder (again!) to the other end of the bed…I stopped him and told him to look up….his expression was like “oh…yeah”. and he moved it back to it’s proper place. I will say that in a year in that house he was the only very minor injury on that fan…and with 2 boys up and down all the time….it was pretty remarkable. And given that we lived in Austin, there was no way that I was getting rid of a single ceiling fan in that house…although we did consider getting one with shorter blades. Up until that time, I had no idea they made them with shorter blades…I think we looked at 24″ ones.
My college age daughter’s stuff has been in a friend’s basement for 2 years…I’m bringing it back home before I take it to another friend’s basement (we don’t have one)…and I swear, there are at least 3 boxes of stuffed animals. She’s 22 and married!
That does sound very remarkable! I can understand about not giving up the fans. Having grown up in AZ and lived in TX as well…there is no giving up fans. Even where we live now, we don’t want to give them up. That is why you may notice the floor fan in their room. The shorter blades is a great idea. I’m pretty sure we looked at that, but even then they are too long. Our ladder can’t be moved to the other end, so we are stuck with the floor fan.
Have a great weekend.
KC
Well, to be very fair to my girls, I had a stuffed animal problem as a kid as well. I collected them. I still have a few I won’t get rid of. So they come by it honestly. I just wasn’t the mom then and I also had a whole wall of shelving to put mine on. My girls don’t and won’t have that in this house. Oh well, right.
KC
Your re-do turned out so cute! I have the same bedding for my daughter do you know the paint color you used? We just moved…again and her last room with this bedding was light blue it was super cute but now she wants pink and as I am sure you know link is a hard color to get right but it looks like you got it spot on.
Thank you for you help in advance
Thank you so much! I just looked up the paint color. I believe it was Behr Cool Pink 100C-2 is what is on the paint chip, but I have a couple of them saved. I am pretty sure that is it. I couldn’t agree more that pink can be a very hard color to get right. Hopefully the color I gave you is the right one and you really like it!
KC