I have two girls rooms to design. FUN! I am always torn on how much the girls should play a part in the design process. While I want their personalities to show through in their rooms, I don’t really trust their design choices enough to give them complete control over each and every fabric and color choice. Kids typically haven’t developed an eye for pattern, color and texture mixtures. {think about the average 5-10 year olds choice of clothes and well…some adults for that matter} Now imagine taking a child to a fabric store and saying “pick out what you like” Yeah Right!!! I prefer to have them give me themes or style concepts and then I will go from there. One of the girls really likes polka dots and the other likes Peace and Tie Dye. Easy enough you say?!? Obviously the textile designers got the memo from every other tween in the world that likes these exact things. I’m am currently in Polka Dot and Peace Sign limbo {more like Dante’s Inferno} waiting for my visual overload and ADD brain to process them all. I literally called my better half for help while sitting in the floor of the fabric store with 20 different bolts of polka dots and peace sign options. I know this sounds absurd but there was only 2 more hours of $1 off per yard plus 20% off total purchase and 50% off pillow fillers. This was some serious once a year savings…I needed backup.

Here are all the fabric options I found for the 9 year olds room…

Okay, I digressed from the dots but the cats were too cute!

I planned on going with a combo of Dots, Stripes and Flowers…I just couldn’t deiced which ones…By this point I was leaving the circle of limbo and spiraling quickly through circles 2-4…lust, gluttony and greed. I love this one…I’ll get two more yards of that one and well…give me the whole bolt of each of them before anyone else gets them…hehehe {evil laugh} but wait there are more patterns with in the same color palette…HELP!

So the older girls room was an easy find. At first I was going to do the typical black background with multicolor peace signs, but I was already tired looking at it in the store, so I knew that it would be too trendy of a style. These two fabrics will hopefully have a more extended style life. I will use these for the bed skirt and the pillows. I need to find one more pattern to bring it all together, since I like to use three patters for contrast. The comforter will be a solid color. It is so much easier to change up the bed skirt and pillow fabrics when she is ready for a change instead of changing the whole comforter set.

The butterfly chair from Justice was her source of inspiration.

The canopy bed that I have to work with. I will be using two different color nettings with sparkle threads throughout them to add some glitz.

I also have two desks and one dresser to repaint, distress, and glaze to complete the rooms.

More pics soon

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