Posts tagged: redecorating

A room for the girly

Alex moved to the basement bedroom and we separated the two little kids. This was Alex’s room:

Alex's room

Alex's room

Alex had a loft bed and put his dirty feet all over the ceiling, so that got painted first.
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The nice thing about painting the ceiling before you paint the walls is that it doesn’t matter if you get it on the walls. Oh, and those solar system glow in the dark things? Very annoying to have to scrape them all off the wall.
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Zoe picked purple for her walls. I cleaned the carpet, too.
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Looks nice, doesn’t it?

Then I bought some fabric, and learned that organza is not my favorite material to sew.
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Two layers of lilac and one layer of dark purple organza underneath make a very girly princess bedskirt.
organza princess purple bedskirt

There were about 4-4.5 yards left in each color…
Leftover organza

which was perfect for making sheers to go over the ugly blinds in that room.
organza sheers
The don’t look that dark in the daytime, but I’ve not been able to get a picture in the daylight.

In case you were wondering, 30 yards of organza were used in this room.

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