Joya's Room

When we moved into our new home that high school boys built, I was determined to have a new home but not a cookie-cutter new home look. I wanted build-ins, character and unique touches around every corner. And when I walked into two out of our three daughter's rooms I was all, "Oops! These rooms didn't look so dinky as they are on our house plans!" 
So I then began a quest to figure out how we could get build-ins, character and unique touches in these tiny rooms that also helped with floor space.
Joya's room was first up.. first of all, the girl wanted her room to be rainbows. Like wanted a big rainbow to be painted upon the wall.  I did my best with using rainbow colors and that seemed to be enough for my opinionated at-the-time 6 year old. Once I figured out a rainbow decor I did my research online (ehhemPINTERESTehhem) and found some cute day-bedish looking build-ins.

​I drew up some plans for the hubs, he built it and painted my little tale off.  

​THIS is the result! 

To help with floor space I knew I didn't want a dresser in her room. Adding them under her bed and under each shelving unit made that possible!

My attempt at adding some rainbow colored touches...

A broken mirror with a cool frame is how I got this look. Popped that mirror right out, sprayed the frame and stuck a cute floral accent in it. 

The white frames are totally old cabinet doors we purchased for $2 at The Habitat for Humanity Restore with the middles taken out. 

And there you have it! Our 7 year old, middle girlfriends room. I've been busy dreaming, drawing and painting  up many of our spaces during this photography-business-sabbatical so I'll be showing more of what we've created in future posts! Stay tuned!