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. 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…
WTH.
Sometimes I astound myself with my own idiocy.
Anyways, I signed up, and we’re gonna finish this torture chamber experiment. Here’s what’s been going down recently in this space. *This post contains affiliate links. Please read our full disclosure policy HERE.*
We’re building a nook. Our daughter’s space is so odd in terms of it’s 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.
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 moulding.
Above you can see the crown moulding 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.
In other pink room news…
We finished the “desk chair” we made from this inexpensive Wal-Mart storage ottoman.
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 in the near future.
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.
I showed you my haul of thrift store and flea market frames a while back.
I finally got around to working on this project. All of these frames got spray painted a bright white.
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. If you have any opinions, PLEASE, weigh in. Hubs and I have stared at it too long at this point. I yield.
The last couple 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!
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. 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.
I made the duvet cover with help from my friend Tasha’s tutorial over at Designer Trapped in a Lawyer’s Body. I broke out the no sew hem tape again to do grosgrain ribbon accents on the DIY duvet cover, as well.
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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i love the progress you are making! and i am an idiot right there with you!
WHY do we do this to ourselves? 😉
I think the frames look amazing! You seem to have a blank spot in the middle, maybe add in a chunky letter or something a little different to give it some contrast?? It’s definitely not too much though 🙂
Hey Andi, YEP, there’s definitely a hole there. That pic was taken as we were hanging them up. And now, there are about 2-3 more than you see in that shot. They go floor to ceiling. I like your chunky letter idea…a lot, actually!!! THANK you!!!
1. I like the frames. 2. the desk is AMAZING, and 3. I did the same thing in E’s room for her bedskirt and it’s such a big bang for the buck, right? Looking good!
It is looking so great! She is going to look that little nook…and the desk is perfection! Best of luck in this final week of ORC!!
I laughed all the way through your Week 5…can’t wait to see the final reveal. 🙂
Maybe somewhere in between on the frames? Not too little, not too much, just the right amount? Try hanging just the big ones? I would have to see the rest of the room before I give a good opinion. Hint, hint. Gorgeous so far!
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.
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 🙂
It’s looking amazing!!
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!!!