The Girl Room gets a face lift!!

We have lived in our house for almost 2.5 years and I am room by room decorating.....yes still! Actually, to tell you the truth....it is hard for me to sit still with the design of the rooms....so I am pretty much on round 2 of decorating. As a design teacher I see new trends in Fashion and Interiors everyday......which makes me want to change things around. I have closets full of accessories for the house that I just rotate when I change my mind.....the hubby loves that closet. (JK...not sure he even knows it exists). When we moved in he finallllllllyyyy had his own space called the "Man Room"...most guys have a man cave, however, our basement is creepy and old with many nooks and crannies....reminds me of the new show American Horror Story. And if you have seen that show then you will understand why I do not go down there by myself and if I do then I sprint up the stairs when I'm done! (a great workout)

So the hubs got the super cute screened in porch off the kitchen instead of the scary basement......we put a tv in there and some comfy patio furniture and the latest antique find....an Eddie Bauer bar. I added some pictures from our annual Key West trips and some hanging lanterns....I even added some pillows.....ok ok it is starting to sound like I decorated the "Man Room" but the hubs actually picked these things out. I am just really good at persuading him into things and making them sound like his ideas....shhhh don't give my secret away! He does love the room and has added his own touches...so he is happy with the results!

There I go off on a tangent again.....lets get back to the "Girl Room"....my own room :) First I needed a really comfy chair and a TV.....wah la!!!!

(I made pillow covers for the pillows that came with the chair....these are the softest pillows in the world by the way!)

(Don't make fun of the TV...clearly the Man Room got a better one. Annnndddd you notice I have loose cables, yep no cable in the girl room....again the Man Room won.)

Next I headed out on big trash days in neighboring neighborhoods and found this shutter. I thought it was great all tore up and paint chipped....I literally brushed it off and hung a $10 frame on it....turned it into a giant wall art frame. LOVE!! I love trash to treasure finds :)

One of my favorite things in the girl room is the jewelry holder made out of a towel rack and shower curtains!! Let me show you....

Here is what you will need if you liked it: a towel rack (I got a brass one for $8 at Walmart) and shower curtain hooks . First, have your handy hubby hang the towel rack where you want it......and then hang your necklaces from the hooks. SO CUTE and SO CHEAP!! 

(I got the brass S-shaped ones from Walmart for like $3 for a box of 12)

ONE more thing.......the fabric store had a huge sale (yes I go to fabric stores...call me old!) and I bought some canvas fabric for drapes...I could get away with this flowery "girly" fabric because I get to decide what goes in the girl room, right??

This project I did as a demo in class. Many times when I do projects for my own house I take them into school to show the kids how to make things and think of what they can do in their own rooms. So they are learning and I am getting some side projects done. They are more engaged when it is a real life scenario. I usually take pics and show them what it looks like in my house when finished. That is what I did here....

All I did was hem up the bottom and sides of the panels about 1 inch.

At the top I folded over the fabric about 5 inches and sewed that to create a "hole" to slide the curtain rod through. These are very basic curtains, but still looked great :)