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The Heathered Nest

November 2, 2016 · 12 Comments

Pink Room Update

Bedrooms· diy projects· Everything Else· Furniture Flips· Kids· room makeovers

pink room makeover update…

We’re checking a lot off of the to-do list for our girls’ pink room makeover. But it’s the last week of this One Room Challenge before the reveal, and I feel like we still have SO much to do.

No surprise there.

Girls pink room makeover update from heatherednest.com

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Anyways, I signed up, and we’re gonna finish this torture chamber experiment.

Here’s what’s been going down recently in this space.

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Why is it that we perform best under pressure? I’d like to think I performed better poolside with a fruity drink in hand. This 6-week timeline is torture…and I VOLUNTEERED…

 

Sometimes I astound myself with my own idiocy.

 

DIY built in nook with melamine shelving from heatherednest.com

 

 

We’re building a nook.

Our daughter’s space is so odd in terms of its layout that building a nook for her bed and desk was the best concept we had for making the space work.

We’re building the nook out of white melamine shelving material from Home Depot. 

 

DIY built in nook with melamine shelving and Kreg jig from heatherednest.com

 

 

Hubs got to use his beloved Kreg jig for this project. He has a serious love affair going on with that tool. And I’m all for it continuing. I get a lot of good perks out of that relationship.

The guts of the nook shelving structure up top will be covered with our crown molding.

 

DIY crown molding project from heatherednest.com

 

 

Above you can see the crown molding going in, as we’re about to wrap it around the nook area. And besides the “hardscape”, we’ve been working on the “softscape” as well.

 

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In other pink room news…

 

We finished the “desk chair” we made from this inexpensive storage ottoman.

 

DIY desk chair from inexpensive storage ottoman from heatherednest.com

 

 

We beefed it up and made it taller so that it would be the right height for her to use as a chair, and then added 3″ casters.

Will get to the tutorial at some point hopefully soon.

 

DIY desk chair from inexpensive storage ottoman from heatherednest.com

You can see the finished “chair” at THIS POST.

 

 

Our very scientific way to figure out the correct height for the desk chair 😉

The space we have for her desk area is so small and tight that I knew a real chair with a back wouldn’t work. Plus, this ottoman gives her extra storage in a room where that is at a premium. Win-win.

 

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I showed you my haul of thrift store and flea market frames a while back.

 

paint thrift store and flea market frames for a high end look from heatherednest.com

 

 

I finally got around to working on this project. All of these frames got spray painted a bright white.

 

paint thrift store and flea market frames for a high end look from heatherednest.com

 

 

My original concept for this wall in our pink room has even MORE picture frames on it than you see below.

Now I’m thinking maybe that is too much of a good thing. I dunno. Will see what we end up with soon, I guess!

 

paint thrift store and flea market frames for a high end look from heatherednest.com

 

The bedding.

The last couple of projects I tackled this week were for the bedding. I made a ribbon lined bed skirt with no-sew hem tape and THIS pink grosgrain ribbon.

The bedskirt I used cost less than $10. I’ll take that any day over similar skirts you can purchase for upwards of $100!

 

no sew hem tape and grosgrain ribbon to create custom no sew DIY bedskirt and DIY duvet cover from heatherednest.com

 

 

I also made a duvet cover from two twin bed sheets. The sheets cost a whopping $10 for 2. #BigSpender 😉

But in all honesty, WHY pay out the nose for beautiful bedding that goes in a little person’s room who would jump on the bed with her muck boots on, if I let her.

 

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I’d rather pay next to nothing, and then not get panicked when I see some dirt on the darn thing.

Plus, when she decides in three years she wants an all-black room with camo accents or something, I won’t have a huge heart attack…only a small one.

 

no sew hem tape and grosgrain ribbon to create custom no sew DIY bedskirt and DIY duvet cover from heatherednest.com

 

 

I added some hot pink pom-pom fringe to a simple white duvet cover to spruce it up. So inexpensive, and made a big difference.

 

no sew hem tape and grosgrain ribbon to create custom no sew DIY bedskirt and DIY duvet cover from heatherednest.com

 

So what’s left in this pink room adventure? We need to hang some shelving, and the big item that still needs to be checked off the list is the DIY upholstered headboard.

I haven’t tried that project before, but there are about 867 YouTube tutorials on it…

 

How hard can it be?

 

Famous last words of a DIY’er, right?!

 

 

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Comments

  1. Tara @ Lehman Lane says

    November 7, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    Love the white frames and the pink bamboo desk. The room is really coming along! Only a few days left before the craziness is over and we all have finished rooms 🙂 Yay!!!

    Reply
  2. Erin Spain says

    November 4, 2016 at 9:40 am

    It’s looking amazing!!

    Reply
  3. Leslie says

    November 3, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Looking forward to the finished post. I love your knock-off linens. What a great idea!!! The grosgrain link is for 1 1/2″ ribbon—is yours really that wide? It doesn’t look that wide to me.

    Reply
    • Heather says

      November 4, 2016 at 8:43 am

      You know what, you’re TOTALLY right. It’s not 1.5″. It’s 7/8″. Thanks for noticing, and I am making the correction now 🙂

      Reply
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