So, here's the story. Our youngest daughter, Jessica, was attending college at Mizzou in Columbia, Missouri. She and a friend had rented a little basement apartment in an old house. Now, if you have ever visited a college town and spent any time in the available rentals for college students you would know that most of them are lacking in the aesthetically pleasing department and this little dwelling was of no exception.
Jessica was having trouble getting settled into her new duds. It was a dark little room in a basement apartment. There was one very little egress window leaving not much natural light. Her decorating thus far was placing her mattress on the floor and piling all of her other belongings in the corners of the room. The walls were a dirty primer color with carpets that let's just say had seen better days after the abuse of former college students and the results of some good parties. I could tell that in order to get this girl in the spirit she was going to need to be lifted emotionally by her surroundings and she needed some help!
Now, my other daughter, Amy, shares in my enthusiasm for design and decor and she is also quite the little "do it your selfer". After collaboratively speaking of dear Jessica's dilemma we decided we were capable of doing what needed to be done in order to perk our little girl up, and after doing a little shopping and list making, we were able to come up with a plan.
Paints, brushes, tools, tarps, old headboards, and accessories, we loaded up the Subaru and headed to CoMo for a day in order to transform Jessica's room (and attitude) from blah to beautiful!!!!
We also wanted it to have that element of surprise, you know, like MOVE THAT BUS!!!!!! So we sent Jessica away for the day and she was not to return until we were finished with the project... She was gone a LOOONNNGGGG time!
Here was the task at hand... Can't blame a girl's bad mood with a room like this!
Oh, my! I've seen prison cell's with more personality! Well, not personally, you know, on those TV shows...
So, we began by first emptying the room and giving it a good wipe down and vacuuming.
First coat of paint went on the walls. We used a very bright and creamy peachy orange color to compliment the bed spread that Amy made for her sister... The girl has talent!
Because the room was so small, we wanted to give it some dimension and depth, so we painted two thick mother of pearl like colored stripes around the room. We used flat paint for the walls and glossy paint for the stripes to give it some texture.
Here was the finished look of the walls...
Next we worked on repurposing a small chest of drawers, a new mirror, and an old headboard that we covered in batting and tufted fabric (not too bad for our first attempt).
Then we began reassembling the room. Bed off the floor with new headboard and bedspread, new curtains, repainted chest of drawers with new knobs, mirror (mirrors are great because they make a space appear larger) and shelves on the walls, new embellished lamp and table accessories.
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
And wahhhhlaaahhhh!!!!! Extreme Bedroom Makeover College Edition!
From this to that...
Makes for one very happy college girl... and two very exhausted, but accomplished, designers!
Hope you have enjoyed this version of Extreme Makeover College Edition... The only thing missing was a megaphone and that big bus, oh, and Ty... gotta love a guy in a tool belt!
Thanks for visiting!
Next up, see a couple of recent purchases at a favorite store that had me in shoppers bliss!
Stacy K
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