Tween Room Redo

It only took Hannah about 7.5 years to stop loving the color pink. With that track record, after this tween update, I should be good to go until she leaves for college!

Pepto Pink has been replaced with Martha Stewart’s Sharky Gray. A color I l LOVE and one that little man thought was so funny. “Hannah your room is going to be the color of a shark” he would say. At least there is no longer a pink glow shining behind closed doors.

Hannah has taken on her mommy’s love for travel and the city of New York. So we used that as our main inspiration. She had three things she wanted to incorporate into her room. Zebra, the color turquoise and travel. So this is what we came up with.

Remember the N.Y.C. I made using Wal-mart frames and my printer?

And the large New York, New York canvas that I painted?

Her bed went from pretty in pink

To a peppy chic black, white and turquoise dream. We ditched the dust ruffle and added this old trundle my dad had. And a new mattress that my sister gave me. Using her old pillows I sewed and recovered them with the Statue of Liberty.

Spray painted it with our trusty Bahama Breeze blue and tossed on the twin mattress. Perfect for all those sleepovers!

Gone was the hot pink over sized mirror.

Repurposed into a frame for square bulletin boards.

I have been longing to create a collage wall and her room fit the bill.

I used some old Goodwill frames and painted them in an off white.

Framed a few play bills from some shows she has seen.

Created a canvas with the state of New York on it. And updated some super cute owls we found at GW for $1.99.

The zebra bulletin board was a gift to her from a dear friend. We used it to highlight some things she has collected along her travels.

Repainted the “H” and mixed in some super cute square travel plates I found at Crate and Barrel.

Her desk was updated by simply painting the chair, adding a cute bird cage {GW} and a few items she picked up for her birthday.

Framed pictures that I took on our last trip to New York.

And see those curtains? I found the velvet blue panels at Goodwill, $2.99 for the set! I picked up 7 yards of fabric at a discount store for $3.99 a yard and sewed these cute ruffled topped panels for the windows. It was so much easier to use the blue panels as a base.

This total room redo was under $386.00 with the paint costing the most at $122.00 for 2 gallons of paint and 12 cans of spray paint.

And I have one tween smiling from ear to ear.

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