Big Girl Room is Coming!!

Right now, my oldest son and daughter share a room.  It's time to move my youngest son in with his brother and let my princess have her own room.

We have been talking up this change for months (A is not ready to leave her brother....she thinks she will be sad and lonely).  Her new room will be right across the hall.  I let her browse 100's of new bedding sets and we found a super cute pink and lime one at Overstock.Com.  We looked and looked at tons of new bedroom sets for her and just couldn't find anything we liked in our price range (even the "nice stuff" at HOM and Slumberland seemed cheaply made).  So I went online and found a nice set at JCP of all places!  Here it is:

 

We The Husband put together the nightstand and chest last night and were both so happy with our purchse, it really is nice stuff!!  I still need to paint her room first which I'm hoping to start today.  I'm feeling pretty adverturous and think I'm going to attempt a picture I saw at Home Depot on her wall (although I would need to actually make the stencil for the ribbon....).

We will see if I have the patience or skill to complete it! :)

Kid's Bathroom Closet Reveal

 I have put the final touches on my kid's bathroom closet.  I'm not sure I like the storage bins I found, those might have to be relocated to another part of the house.   Plus I need to buy new towels for my kids and will eventually need to put those in here too.   I hid extra cleaning supplies behind the turquoise bins.  I also used a bucket I had in the garage to hold toilet paper for now.  There is such a large space under the last shelf, I'm not sure how to effectively utilize this space yet. :)

I painted all the shelves and put them back in.  MUCH better!

This closet had nothing on the floor so I used some cheap peel & stick tiles from Home Depot to cover the stained mess that once was here.

I found some cute buckets at IKEA to hide all of my daughter's hair accessories.  I also put extra cotton balls and q-tips in one as well.  I would like to find a few more storage options that add a little sparkle to the closet, of course! :)

                    

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Kitchen Metamorphosis

We I recently took on transforming our kitchen from old, dingy, standard honey oak cabinets to something that would actually make me want to cook. 

I got the idea for opening the cabinets and the 2 different paint colors from my fellow Minnesotan, Layla at The Lettered Cottage (this girl & her hubby are amazing DIY-ers!).  With 3 kids running around the house, this was no easy task. It was a painstakingly slow process but I am in love with how it is all coming together!!  I still need to come up with some sort of backsplash behind the stove (there used to be an old double oven here back in the day).

Here's a sneak peak!