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.   

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.  

Laundry Room

Laundry room before

We painted the walls a butter cream yellow.  Brad built the cabinets and we painted them a dark brown called Oil Lamp from Wal-Mart's color place.  The laundry sign was from Hobby Lobby.

We made the curtains from sheets at Down East.  They are a  pin stripe print.  We got the old door off KSL for $5 and put hooks on it for bags and coats.  

Kaylynn's Room

Before

This was Kaylynn's room before. The headboard Lori and I stole out of a Down East dumpster. It was lots of fun! It had a big gash in the back but you can't see it. I sold it on KSL for $50!

These are the after pictures. We did an orange sherbet on the wall. It is kind of hard to tell what color it is. The headboard we got from a Downeast clearance store. I got some soft fuzzy material at 75% off from Hancock Fabrics to recover it. The curtains were made out of $1 material from Wal-mart tied back with ribbon. The quilt was from The Quilt Shop in Gardner Village. I had a $25 off coupon and then they gave me $25 off because I filled all the punches for a punch card and then $25 more off for a little stain on it and it was on sale. It was a great deal. Her bedroom furniture I got on KSL for $50. I got the chandelier for $15 and painted it white. I decorated the lamp shades with some fringe/tassel stuff from Hobby Lobby.
These decorative balls are made out of flowers and were from Wal-Mart. I got some craft paint and painted them in colors that matched her room.

Lori and I made these out of bead board. I love thinking of new ways to display pictures of my kids. You can never have enough pictures!
The quilt shop also gave me the girl statue for free for buying a quilt that day. I made the little skirt on her. Kaylynn keeps asking me when I am going to make her a head.

On the nightstands I tried to use things we already had. The lamps I got at Wal-Mart. I decided I was going to return them. When I did the lady said because I had my receipt I could get my full refund, but that they were on clearance for $2 a piece. I returned them for full price and bought them for $2. The jewelry box I got for a dollar from a garage sale. It had ugly material in it so I took that out and put in paper that matched the room. I painted the baskets pink to match. I love painting things.

This window Lori got from a lady moving out of the country. She had tons of old windows from a museum in down town Salt Lake. You can't really see in the picture but the glass has cut flowers in it. It's awesome!

The lantern was a garage sale find for $1.