Tween Room Makeover is OFFICIALLY done! Total was $80!!

It's done! TOTALLY done! As in....when I see a pink item that is so perfect and adorable and it's only 10 cents....I will NOT buy it because there is no more room for any more pink! So yes, this will be the last update on the tween room! (I promise!)

I figured up the master total and it was just a little under $80 for her whole room! (Not counting labor of course.. there is a LOT of man power here!)

You can see all the posts with us making each item and all the costs: HERE. 

It's loud and bright and a bit gaudy but perfectly screams "Rebecca" and she thinks it the best room in the whole wide world. :-)

Wall 1: Before

& After

Wall 2: Before

& After

Wall 3: Before

& After

Wall 4: Before

& After:

And of course here's an updated video! Because photos only show so much.

It's a work of labor and love for sure! Thank you to everyone who helped us along the way! *hugs*

Tween Room Update!

I'm so very, very happy to report that Rebecca's room is OFFICIALLY done! Curtains and all!

This post is just a few of the items we recently added and then in my next post I'll post complete before and after photos!

I finally found some black curtains ($10), and boy have they really helped her to sleep better! They block out all the light, and there is a lot of light up here right now. But they were boring. So Aunt Alice came to the rescue and crocheted us some flowers for them! (free!) (She can make anything with yarn....seriously. She's awesome.) I also found a pink scarf at a bag sale (10 cents), cut it in half, and draped that over the top.

I love the results!

Aunt Alice's rockin' flowers.

As I mentioned, my parents brought us our items out of storage, including Rebecca's birthday dolls - Jason's mom has been giving her one every year since she was born and she just loves them. (Free as they were gifts!)

Also in storage was my black bench. My granny gave it to me when I was 8 and the seat was red velvet,  at the time I had a peach room so it was covered in a peach fabric. As a teen I had a red room so I took off the peach fabric and used the red velvet again, when I got married I had it in our living room which was beige so I covered it again, when the older kids were born their nursery was primary colors so I took off the beige and used the red velvet again, when we moved to our bigger house I had it in our bedroom which was blue, so I covered it in a blue fabric. Whew. Then it went into storage for 2 years. Now I have it back and Rebecca begged for it so....I washed her baby blanket, that Aunt Alice made her a looong time ago, and used that to cover it! This bench sure had made the rounds! Don't you just want to give it a big hug? (Free again! Use what you already have!)

And remember that lamp we redid? Well I found a better lamp shade for it at a yard sale for 50 cents! So nice and fluffy! Rebecca was really excited about the adorableness!

Ok, be back in a sec with before and after pics!

Tween room is DONE! Total was $62.00!

Rebecca's room is done! Well for the most part, I still don't like her curtains (The light is so bright here she needs some heavy black one to block out the sun.) but since she does has some form of curtains right now we'll say it's DONE! And for only $62 it looks awesome!!!

SIXTY-TWO DOLLARS! That's less than most folks spend on just a bed set! And we did her whole room! And she thinks it's the greatest room in the whole ride world! How awesome is that? 

Let's post her new bedset again just for fun:

And her book shelves!

And her dresser!

Ooooohhh, wait I have a better idea!

Let's post a VIDEO of her room! So you can get the 3D effect!




What do you think?!

Weee!

This morning Rebecca and I snuck (Isn't that a word? My spell check is saying it's not. My spell check needs to install the hillbilly version.) out before all the boys woke up and went yard sale hopping with Aunt Alice! We had a blast, as we always do with Alice, she's a hoot. There weren't a lot of sales because it's Saturday and apparently all the sales are on Thursday because that's how it's been done forever and ever because that's when the mines always had payday so that's when the miners wives had money. They never had any left by Saturday so if you wanted to sale anything by golly, it better be on a Thursday, Aunt Alice informed me of this while she navigated us around town and I drove.

Have I ever mentioned that there are no yard sales in N. Ireland? That's a whole other post, we'll get to that soon.

Anyways, today I had $50 and I wanted a bed frame for Rebecca and a bedset for Rebecca (Trying to get her room all done as it will be the guest bedroom when my parents come visit in a few weeks...I hope they like pink and black! lol) and some weights for Jason and some lamps and some alarm clocks and a dresser for Alex and summer clothes for Jarod
. Now of course I knew I would not find ALL of this but I got pretty darn close! I also went to some thrift stores and checked out the clearance section of some department store and then went to Wal-Mart to get my first week of E-Mealz!

For $50 I got......*drumroll*

Bedset (bedspread, sheets, pillow cases, bed skirt) for Rebecca!
Bedframe for Rebecca!
40lb weight set! (With a pic of a hunk on the box which Jason assured me he would look like in no time at all. Heh!)
2 lamps
5 accent pillows for Rebecca
1 pink magnet board for Rebecca
A car sunshade for Alex

Not too shabby!!!

Oh and a little portable DVD player toy for the kids, which they loved! Rebecca was really suspicious when she saw it at the yard sale for so cheap, "Does it really work?" she asked the lady. Heh. I know why that mom was selling it though....it's loud and annoying! She probably would have given it to us for free!

Ok....are you ready to see Rebecca's new bed setup???!!!

Can you handle the awesomeness?!

Do we need another drum roll?

Thanks Alice for hanging out with us today! Let's do it again on a Thursday so we can find more sales!

5 minute lamp redo

Today Rebecca informed me that her swimsuit was too small.

Not sure why she couldn't have let me know this earlier, perhaps when I was SHOPPING FOR SWIMSUITS a few days ago! Or any of the other hundred times I was in the big town. Nope, wait until the last day before we leave for our vacation. lol

Of course I wasn't too unhappy about having to run to the thrift store again....I always find something worth my while. I did find her the perfect bathing suit, new with tags even, for $2.

I also came home with this little guy.

And when I got home, we spent 5 minutes turning it into something that matched with her room better. 3 minutes of that time was spent trying to pry those diamond mirrors off...which didn't work so we just left them for now. I had also found a pretty shade at the same store.

Lamp: $1 - Goodwill
Shade: $1 - Goodwill
Paint: Already had

$2 lamp in 5 minutes!

And since it's a wood base, if we ever decide to redo it with a more complicated design that won't be too much of a problem.

She loves it!

Thrifty Pink & Black Bedroom for $30!!!

Rebecca's tween room is looking awesome and she's having a sleepover tonight to show it off! :-P

I'm going to go ahead and post before and after photos now, even though we are still trying to find her a bedframe and a black bedspread with lots of little pink pillows. (Right now she's got a cute afghan we found at the thrift store on it.) I know, I know...the bed will be the center of the room that ties everything together...but it might be a few weeks before we find one and I don't want to wait that long to show how cute it's looking.(We also plan on moving her pink curtains over to her closet opening and getting black curtains with pink dots for her windows....the sun here is bright and wakes her up early so she needs some dark ones.)

We spent around $5 for knick knacks, $20 for paint, and $5 for brushes - everything else was free....I love looking at her room and thinking it only cost $30! (Click on the tag "tween" to see all the posts about us finding freecycle items and fixing them up for her room.) (And remember, we know it would look even cuter if we could paint the walls....but we rent so that's out.)

The best part is that my tween and I did everything TOGETHER. Did we just walk into a store and let her pick out a premade bedroom? No. We showed her that you can have the bedroom you want, using unwanted items, not give in to consumerism, AND have FUN doing it. We spent hours cutting, fixing, painting, and chatting and ended up with a room that she's so proud of!

Ok enough talking....photo time! (Click to enlarge)


                                  Wall 1: Before

                                               After

                    Wall 2- Before

                                   After

                              Wall 3- Before

                                               After

                                      Wall 4 - before

                                              After

And some detail shots!

So...how's that for a $30 teen room makeover? :-P

Teen's decoupaged dresser!

We are done with our weekend painting marathon!

Just in time as the rain clouds are rolling in...whew!

I had fun with my hyper, creative girl but now I really do need a nap!

She painted her dresser black and then decoupaged magazine clippings and scraps of paper to the front.
We ran out of mod podge so it will look a bit better when we get some more and can do a few more coats of shinny. Isn't it cute though?!

And here are all her bookshelves and wall shelves!
Since we rent we can't put holes in the wall so we will have to wait to hang them up until I can find some of those picture strip things.

Not bad for 2 days, huh? :-P

Free Wall Shelves!

Whew, wore out! We painted all day!
We got about half done and hope to finish the rest tomorrow!

We found these four block things when we moved in. They were waaay up on top of a shelf and covered in years of grime - a nasty gray color. We painted them and attached some awesome scrapbook paper, that my sister sent to Rebecca, to the back. (Thanks Rachel!) She's going to put them up on her wall and perhaps put candles inside. (Unlit candles!)

This shelf I got at a yard sale, it was in horrible condition and said "free or trash". lol
I think it is supposed to go over a toilet but we'll use it for knick knacks. :-P
We painted it black and put polka dots all over it. 

This little rack I found at the free sale and thought she could hang jewelry from it, or scarves.
Not fun to try to paint the pegs a different color as the base! lol

We got two of the bookshelves done so tomorrow we have 3 bookshelves left and her dresser.
And then I'll need a nap.

We are actually running really low on pink paint so I really, really hope there is enough left!

Paint time! :-P

More tween room peek

Today we dyed and painted!

I found some white curtains off freecycle and Rebecca found some pink fabric dye at the thrift store for 40 cents! The black bow is just a piece of freecycle fabric, I'm keeping an eye out of nice, thick, cloth ribbon to replace it. Dyeing is fun...we'll need to find something else to dye!

This black shelf we got off freecycle, we found the woven baskets at the thrift store for 20 cents each and painted them pink. She's not sure yet what she's going to put in them.

I mentioned the box of pink sign letters we found in my last post....this is the awesome sign her grandpa made for her to put the letters on! The letters slide into the slates. We painted it today and she can't wait for it to dry so she can test it out!

All we have left to do, is to paint the bookshelves, paint and decoupage the dresser, paint 3 wall shelves, and find a bedspread set!

*Edit to add*

It was dry enough to test out the letters! She LOVES it and said she's going to change the sayings
everyday. :-)