All Girl Shabby Chic Room

This bedroom is shared as part of the Real Reader Rooms series sponsored by
The Land of Nod.

Today’s room is shared by my good friend Jen who brings us her daughter’s gorgeous shabby chic room.

(Editor’s note: the beautiful pink curtains give the photos a bit of a pink cast. The room is beautifully pink, but not that pink.)

Jen: Pink and green is what I imagined the day I found out I was having my baby girl Kendall. Almost 5 years later, I have managed to keep the same decor from her nursery and transform it as she has matured into a preschooler.

Jen: I purchased the bedding set for her big girl bed on a major sale at Target in the shabby chic section. (Editor’s note: I’m pretty jealous of how great Jen is at shopping sales. We went out together and I found designer jeans for $80. She found some for $20.)

Jen: I bought the curtains for only $10 and flowers at Michael’s for $5.  I hot glued the flowers at the top.  I love them and they were easy and cheap.

Jen: Kendall’s IKEA kitchen is so cute and you can purchase it in sections. She received the bottom (oven and sink) from my husband’s parents for Christmas last year and the top (micro and pot rack) this year. I was afraid the kitchen would be yet another toy she would play with for a few days and be bored with.  However, this kitchen has kept her busy and cookin’ since the day she got it! I love to keep her kitchen in her room so at desperate times I cant ask her to “go upstairs and make me a pot of soup and some brownies” and she is all over it!

Jen: The tall bureau we use for her overflowing collection of books. We encourage her to enjoy reading and every time someone asks us “what would she like for a gift” we always reply “books”… So that’s where we stash them all…

Jen: I took an old mirror we had hanging around the house, painted it pink, and used cotton balls to make white polka dots around the frame. I painted unfinished letters white and glued them on the top. I then  used the same polka dot technique to decorate  her plain white lamp shade and I tied a matching hot pink bow around it.  I think it  might have cost me $5 to make (including the white lamp shade).

Jen: The pillow on her rocking chair was made by my very talented sister in law so I can’t take credit.

Jen: Her letters over her bed I bought unfinshed and painted them green and glued ribbon to the back.

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