little girl’s bedroom makeover on a budget
My goal was to spend less than $100 redoing our daughter’s room for her birthday. Since we weren’t replacing the bedding (Grandma made her a beautiful quilt with scraps from her mother-in-law’s quilt bag), the bed, or my college dresser, it seemed more than doable. In the end, I spent closer to $150:
- $80 for three gallons of Tinker Bell and Cabbage Green paint
- $45 for two Daisy drapery panels
- $2.39 for lime green grosgrain ribbon to make new ties for the panel
- $15.72 to redo a rescued chair
My daughter’s favorite part? It’s a tie between the quilt rack from her baby room that I repurposed as a curtain rod/shelf to hold my old Breyer horses, and the “Cinderella” storybook art by Fern Bisel Peat. Although the illustrations deserve to be in better frames, right now I’m sticking to my (revised) budget and using what I have. — Sarah L.
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February 5th, 2010 at 11:01 am
I love the cabbage patch green paint! I would like to try a color like for Isadora’s room. Where’s the bedspread from? Looks homemade!
February 7th, 2010 at 7:22 am
Thanks. I couldn’t get the colors to ever photograph right but they are nice and cheery.
My mother-in-law made it! She had saved a big of my husband’s grandmother’s quilting scraps and hand pieced the entire quilt. Crazy, right? She also made one for our youngest, using new fabric that looked vintage.