My girls room makeover

Kambree and Trinity have begged me since we moved into our house (16 months ago) to re-do their room. I explained I had to do one room at a time and promised I would get to it. Honestly I wasn't in any hurry because they had matching Pottery Barn quilts and some matching wall art that I still really liked. But the room was definitely a little "blah" so I planned to paint one accent wall some shade of blue upon my older daughters request. Kambree's favorite color is blue and Trinity's is pink and I've had my eye on lots of rooms on Pinterest with yellow accents. So I decided to go with those three colors. At Lowe's I found a gallon of blue Valspar paint on the sale rack called La Mirage for $7! (Normally $33) I used over half of it to paint our guest bath and finished it off on my accent wall.

Here's the before.....

And here's the after....

 

Next I found some inspiration on Pinterest with a collage wall of different pink, yellow, blue, silver and black frames. I also wanted to re-use a few fabric banners that I made for Adalynn's 1st birthday that I loved so much I didn't want to take down. What better way to get to see them everyday than by decorating the girls room with them! 

Next I spray painted yellow, pink and silver over a few old frames and a couple new ones from Hobby Lobby. I used coordinating scrap booking paper and printed out a few phrases; "Good Morning Beautiful, I love you, smile, happy, You are my Sunshine" and still working on one larger one that will say "so many of my smiles begin with you!" 

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The wall turned out so cute! I couldn't stop there! So I decided to paint the rest of the room blue (after we get more paint) and paint another wall the accent wall. So, I used painters tape to make a diamond style design on another wall that didn't have a door or any windows. Now, if I hadn't seen this on another blog I would have been technical and measured and marked my diamonds to make them all the same size. (This worked very well when painting Adalynn's chevron wall-I surprised myself with how well it turned out!) But, the blog I read said she just eye-balled it and started taping at diagonals with 3 inch painters tape. I didn't find 3 inch and used the standard 1.88inch. The thicker tape would have been easier and measuring would have saved me a lot of time in doubting myself and "re-taping." (Just a suggestion if you decide to paint a patterned wall.) I'm pretty happy with the big, bold statement it makes!

I ran out of painters tape and used masking tape because it just wasn't worth another trip to Home Depot! This is   Behr Orchid Rose. 

And last but not least the finishing touches. A pink polka dot rug and yellow  ruffled duvet cover from Urban Outfitters. The yellow was on clearance, I wanted 2 but not matching, so I bought the yellow to see if we like it and I'm hoping the gray one goes on sale too for the trundle bed.

The girls are quite happy! ;)