From Sweet to Funky

Maddie asked to redo her room for her birthday.  Now that she’s reached the ripe old age of 11, pink walls and a sweet patchwork quilt were decidedly too babyish for her.  <sob>

Of course, since this isn’t a home décor blog, I  didn’t think to get any before photos.  Duh.  So I went through my old photo archives and found just one:

Bubblegum pink walls with dot stickers, white sheers with little pink flowers embroidered onto them, and her sweet, lovely…babyish quilt. <sob>

First Maddie chose a new comforter.  She found a very funky patterned one at JCPenney.com (you’ll see that in a minute).  I found a lamp at Target which we glue-gunned with ribbon and buttons and I think it turned out pretty darn cute.

Maddie also wanted some original Madeline Elizabeth artwork for her room, so I got her 3 canvases and some acrylic paints in her comforter colors, and she spent an afternoon penciling in and then painting her new artwork:

Then she picked out her wall color.  She wanted a bright lime green to coordinate with the comforter, and bright lime green we got.   I got the room all ready to paint, and that’s when I remembered the dot stickers and the vinyl wall sticker with her name.  I wasn’t sure if I could paint over these stickers, then remove them leaving behind bubblegum pink circles, or if the paint would bleed under them.  I decided to remove all of the dots except those from her closet wall, and I also left the name sticker there.  I did get a picture of the dotty wall at that point, when I realized that people might be interested in whether or not you can paint over these things, but not the one of her name (duh):

Then I painted.  The dots did bleed, enough that I almost painted over them with lime green, but then I remembered I had some of the pink paint in the basement from  5 years ago when I originally painted her room.  I slowly and carefully painted nice edges around each of those circles.  I am so glad I didn’t let the circles up on any other wall!

Here is the reveal!

(Her vinyl name sticker came off beautifully with virtually NO bleeding underneath!)

Also new curtains:

Maddie loves her new room, she loves that it’s more funky than sweet <sob> and she loves that she had a hand in making it all her own.

I am linking this post with Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch!