Logan, a brilliant, adroable, and strong-minded three year-old little girl, loves the color orange, as her thoughtful Mother told me. So we planned her room by choosing fabrics highlighting orange with some hot pink thrown in the mix. We used most of these fun pillows for a pillow nook area for her to hang out and read her books. I found the polkadot buckets to use for storing toys. Organizing and designing her bookshelves made them more practical for Logan and aestethically pleasing to the eye. I couldn't resist using her old hot pink cowboy boots as a design feature! They are adorable and tie in one of our colors, hot pink. We custom made a duvet for her full size bed. One fabric on each side with a green polkadot welting. When we first showed Logan her finished room, she immediately dove into her bed. The bright colors beckoned her to smoosh her face into her comfy setup. Now, her Mother's chair from high school serves as a night/bookstand next to her bed. Even the bottom rungs can be used to stack books! Along with books, Logan loves animals, which probably has something to do with her Mom being an Internal Medicine Veterinarian and her Father being a Wildlife Biologist. The room then had to have lots of animals displayed. The animal wall decals above the bed were a temporary addition due to the below explanation. ![]() Fortunately for the family, in the middle of designing Logan's room, a house came on the market on the street that they always wanted to live. They bid on it and the house was their's. Lauren, the Mom, did a brilliant thing when submitting the purchasing contract. She wrote a letter to the homeowner detailing how her daughters love animals and always have dreamed of living on that street so that they could have the space to one day have goats, chickens and horses. Turns out the homeowner raised her children in that home from a young age and her children had enjoyed raising animals on the property. Even though, Lauren's bid wasn't the highest, because of the letter they got the house. It almost seems like a made for TV movie, but it actually happened! The point of this story is that we didn't do everything that we were going to do in Logan's room because she is moving. So instead of putting the above wall decal purchased for her room in this home, it's going into her new room. Of course, it will have Logan's name inside the bubbles instead. (Purchased at www.RosenberryRooms.com) I also designed a fabric covered cornice board covered in Michael Miller's Pretty Bird Spice fabric to coordinate with her custom made orange pindot fabric window panels, but that we are saving for the new house as well since the window in her new bedroom is of a different size. So back to what we did do... ![]() Her dresser needed a cute mirror hanging above it so that each morning the mirror could respond to her that she is the fairest maiden of them all. Using ribbon, I hung the mirror from a picture hanger. In addition, that corner needed a light. I found the mirror at Colorado's Antique Gallery on Broadway just north of W. Powers Ave. and the lamp, I purchased awhile ago at the Village Antique Mall on Corona and 8th Ave. knowing that I would need it for a little girl's room one day. It used to look like the picture to the left. I love taking this style of lamp and modernizing it by painting it one color. I used Navajo White Spray Paint Satin Finish, and in a well ventilated area and using a face mask, I updated the lamp. The funnest addition to the room was designing Logan's Creative Area! I started with a magnetic board that Logan owned and painted it orange, of course. We purchased a dry erase board and a corkboard. Then transformed the corkboard into a fabric covered corkboard that matched the welting on her duvet and pillows (refer to DIY Fabric Bulletin Board Blog on 10/5/11 if you would like to learn how). With the addition of ladybug and white rose pushpins and a pad of paper with a clipboard attached, the area was ready to be put together. Lauren wanted to surprise Sage, her other daughter, with a bulletin board as well. Both are pictured below. Since they will be selling the house, I recommended waiting to do this, but there is one more step needed to complete the creative area. To ensure that the boards stay in one place, use doublesided sticky tape or foam along the back sides of the boards to adhere to the wall. Since Logan's room was finished, her Mom told me that she finds Logan up on her desk just touching her ladybug pushpins; that she wants to sleep with her comfortable bolster pillow every night; and she overheard Logan tell her friend to come see her "pretty room." When Logan saw her room for the first time, her smile from ear to ear while she literally leaped into the air and landed on her bed, signified the moment that I knew another client was happy. Mission accomplished.
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