A Bright And Glad Kids Room

Oh to live in paradise. At least we have readers like Clara (enjoy the name, btw) so we can live vicariously through them. She and her family right now live in the Dominican Republic and she sent us the stunning makeover that she lately accomplished in her daughter Nadia’s room. We will let Clara do the rest of the talking. Here is her letter:

I have been reading your journal for a long time now and thought you might like this makeover. We lately moved to our new home, and while we are tight with our purse we refuse to live in a drab place. Having wrapped up acquiring furniture (we moved here with nearly nothing), next we turned our eyes to our daughter’s bedroom, which badly needed some injection of color to cure an acute case of meh!

With a budget of 100 dollars I sure had my work cut of for me, but armed with inspiration from our tropical surroundings along with glue, fabric, and paint I succeeded at giving my daughter an inspired and inspiring space:

I painted the only full wall in the bedroom blue (it is a local brand, not available elsewhere). I also painted the doors and closet with white latex paint. It was the most pricey and time-consuming task that I took on (so that says a lot).

The dresser/bedside table is from Ikea, I painted it and covered two of the drawers and the knobs with fabric. I also made new lampshades for some truly inexpensive swing-arm plug-in lamps from eBay.

Nearly everything was made with things I found around the house, which helped me keep the budget so low. Instructions for most of the projects are available in my first journal post about the makeover, and you can see more after photos in the second. – Clara, The Home in Paradise

As if we did not need more reasons to wish that we permanently lived on some island getaway. We enjoy the fresh colors and affordable attitude that Clara brought to Nadia’s new room. Now we are simply left wondering when we when can pop over for a visit…

Have a fresh and glad weekend everyone!