before and After : SK's room

BEFORE:

so i as i promised... i will be posting some before and after pics of our NEW house .. but ive been waiting bc everything is just not quite done,... but gettin there. I had so much fun decorating my lil bird's room:) Its not finished yet. but you get the idea. I still want to paint bird cage sillhuettes on one wall.  And i have picked the fabric im going to make the curtains out of... but i have yet to sew those. I love the way her room is coming together and Sarah Kathryn loves it too. She is SO proud of her big bed and sleeps really good in there.

                                              AFTER :

the closet: I LOVE how big it is... plenty of room for my shoe obsession:)

For the walls,  we chose a robins egg light blue. We took the old light fixture down and i spray painted an old brass chandelier that i found in my parents attic with flat white paint, covered the plasic tubes w/ scrapbook paper.. and cut out bird sillhuettes from paper and hung them from the chandelier with fishing line. I made a chain cover out of the fabric I'm going to be using for the curtains.   The bed and the little pink table were both craigslist fnds:)  The dollhouse shelf was a Dirt Cheap(hudsons') purchase...and boy was that thing a PILL to put toether. The pink tree i found at a garage sale in Indiana before she was born, and the chest of drawers were bought at the Goodwill in Indiana as well.  The framed artwork is made from free printouts i found online and i spray painted some thrift store frames ligh pink. I did 'splurge ' a little on the  light switch plate covers ( from Hobby LObby) .But they were too cute to pass on. I searched and searched online for just the right bedding... you know the saying, 'you just wont knowit , until you see it" .   Target.com ... and the heavens opened and the birds sang (lol ) when i spied this lil birdie bedding. LOVE IT!. oh- and the tissue paper flowers hanging from the ceiling were a martha stewart kit i had been eyeing for months at Michaels... and wouldnt you know, they clearanced them out Just in time for her new room: makeover.) 

well, there you go: cuteness on a TIIIGGGHT budget. im a dumpster diver, trash recycler , upclycling pro.

Being broke has a way of forcing creativity!

Dont buy new....REDO!