Krista's Room

A girl in our neighborhood found out she had breast cancer.  Lori and I felt so bad for her.  She is our age and has 3 little kids.  She is at a stage 3 cancer and it is aggressive.  She had to have surgery to remove them and then is going to be doing chemo and radiation for a whole year.  We were told she didn't need help with meals or cleaning because her mom was going to move in with them to help.  We knew we needed to do something.  Lori and I were thinking about when we were pregnant and sick.  It's horrible laying in bed staring at the same walls day after day.  We thought it would be fun to give her a bedroom make over.  She was actually really excited about it.  It helped us not think so much about our dad.  We went shopping for 2 weeks and got everything ready.  The week after Thanksgiving we decorated the room in 6 hours.  It was SO MUCH FUN!  The best was how much she loved it.  She was crying.  We all were.  Brad helped us some and so did one other guy from our neighborhood for a while.  Jared was 3 months old and I have to feed him so a neighbor watched him for me.  When he was hungry she brought him over and I fed him.  So many people in our community donated money so we could make it look nice.  The husband was awesome too.  I've never seen a guy get so excited about a room before.  He loved it!  He said it looked like a model home and he didn't want to mess it up.  I could do this all day.  I love to decorate!! 

The before  As you can see she didn't have much in her room.  One little end table, no curtains, and nothing on the walls.  

  That chair goes in her living room.

  We started painting first while Brad stapled on the wood.  We used a light gray called Pussy Willow from Sherwin Williams.

 Almost ready to put things on the wall.

The night stands before.

  Lori sanded and pained the end tables.  She made the chevron frames.  The lamps we got at Ross for $30 each.  The end tables were $125 for both of them.  We got them off KSL from a guy in Park City.  Poor Lori's car died when she got there.  

 Lori made the frame on the end table.  The vinyl lettering says "I can do hard things."  The lantern we got from Rod Works.  The mirror tray she had and the pots we got from Ross.

 The blue pillow was from TJMaxx.  It was the main part of why we chose the aqua color. The rod iron scroll we got from Pottery Barn.  (That's the only thing we splurged on but we got free shipping at 20% off the day after Thanksgiving)

 The clock is huge!  We got it from Hobby Lobby.

The frames we got from Wal-Mart.  Her neighbor had just taken her family's pictures and she hadn't seen them yet.  It was fun!

  

 My friend made a card and put it on the bed with every one's names on it that donated money.  I think they were surprised so many people cared about them!

 The bed frame was from Down East.  It was broken so we glued it up and fixed it.

 Lori made the pillow shames and throw blanket from a queen size quilt she had.  It matched perfect!  I love the mirror.  She had it and wanted it hung up but never got around to it.

 The dresser is from Down East

 This temple picture was donated to us by the Boyd family.  Lori and I had done some decorating in their house so they were nice to help us out!  Here is their website. http://www.robertaboyd.com

   I'm sure lots of you know him by his Salt Lake temple picture with the twigs in front of it with red leaves.  Beautiful!!  

 The couch we got from a consignment store in Sandy.  It was $180.  I LOVE it!!  It fit perfect in that spot.  I made the curtains from material that we got from Hancock Fabrics.  It was on sale for $5 a yard!!  

 The light we got from the same consignment store for $75.

 We got the letters from Hobby Lobby.   

3 Kids in one room!

3 Kids in one room!  My friend had twin boys and then 10 months later had a baby girl.  They all had to be in the same room so it was hard finding something that would go good together.  

 We made all the bedding except the bumpers.  The bumpers and bed skirts were all the same.  Each child got a color.  Max got green so we did his sheet in that color.

Audrey got turquoise so we did her sheet in that color.

 And Owen got Orange.  The throw blankets were reversible.  She had her baby girl early so we came over and sewed our hearts out while her twin boys were staying with family.  

Girl's Yellow Room

I traveled to Arizona to see a friend and we decided to redecorate her daughters room while I was there.  We didn't have much time so I only got to paint the room yellow and work on this fun art project.  We took different sizes of canvas from JoAnn's fabric.  It's the cheapest because you can get them 40% off.  We found the decals at Target that matched her bedspread.  It was fun finding the bright colors to paint the canvas.  Then we glued all the pieces on.  It was a fun project!  I wish I could have stayed longer to finish it. 

I probably would have done a bird cage theme.  I love them so my kids can trap toys in them.   Oh the fun owl things you can find now.  You can even get owl money banks.  

  We got cheap Wal-Mart curtains and put ribbon around them.  

Baby Boys Green Room

This is my friends little guys room who isn't so little anymore.  She already had the green walls so we decided to work with them.  We got the gray curtains from Ikea and then added material at the bottom from JoAnn's fabric.

 The wall board is for her to add pictures of her little guy.  It was a half wood door we got for $5.  We painted it and added scrapbook paper.

 The picture was from Ikea.  So were the round place mats. 

 We made all the bedding.  All of the material was from JoAnn's fabric.

Purple Bedroom

Before

After

The end tables and baskets were from Ikea.  The pot from TJMaxx and the lamp from Target.

The picture is from ShopKo

 The rod iron balls were from Rod Works.

We made the pillows with material from JoAnn's fabric.  The bed spread is from Target.  It was a queen and I cut it up to make a pillow sham.

 A trunk to put her toys in from TJMaxx.  The mirror was from Hobby Lobby.

Baby Girl's Room

The before picture.  She had 3 boys and was having her first girl!

After

More of the canvas from Tai Pan we covered with material.

I painted the end table, dresser, and chair white.  I recovered the chair.

I got these flowers at Hobby Lobby.  I put a wall paper on the wall with boards in between.  I love having a texture on the wall.

The light we got from Lowe's

The frames were from Hobby Lobby

The clock was also from Hobby Lobby.

I made a tutu bed skirt.  All the bedding I made with material from Hobby Lobby.

I found the material I liked a long time ago.  I had gotten samples for it and showed her.  She loved it and when I went to pick it up they were out of it.  Turns out they weren't getting any more.  She got some from a different state and I had my sister get some for me in Colorado.  We had just enough!