A Red, White, & Teal Bunkroom For 4 Girls

Projects like Shannon’s nearly make us wish we had four daughters running around. I should emphasize the “nearly” on that. Haha. But, once you see the project Shannon took on, you will see why the idea of having four girls around sounds kinda excellent (and this is coming from a guy who grew up with three sisters).

Hey folks! It is so funny reading your journal. We were and are where you folks are – but we began nearly ten years ago when we picked up our first house. Since then we have brought our total baby count to five (yup, five!) and we are still in the same house – trying to make it work. Anyway, with the birth of our fifth baby/fourth girl last may we could not figure out how to break up the children among the 3 bedrooms we have for them. Initial plans were 2 girls/2 girls/1 boy… but then we found the double bunk room over at augustfields.blogspot.com and it was enjoy at first sight! So last month the mister took off the week between Christmas and New Years and we got our major renovation groove on.

In ten days we took out a wall, merged two rooms into one, built a double bunk bed unit and wrapped up the room – if not to completion, at least a good portion of the way. And we did it all on the especially low-cost. Especially, especially low-cost.

Creating secret storage spaces like pull out drawers (on casters) have truly come in handy.

I made these silhouette pillows for each of the girls, to add something personal to each of their beds.

We went with a playful striped ceiling (like the one here), and enjoy the bold color it brings into the room.

Inexpensive dressers (three Malm ones from Ikea) and turquoise walls make the room lively and functional.

The girls enjoy it, and so do we!

Thanks for checking it out! – xoxo, Shannon

How lively is that? We are sending out a large thanks and a giant bravo to Shannon and her mister for sharing their excellent project. If you wanna see more of the inspiration, progress, and reveal pics – be sure to click over to Shannon’s journal too. Who knows, perhaps we can all score a sleepover invitation. Hah. Oh and let us play the what is-your-go-to-part game. I am loving the built-in drawer storage and Sherry’s dying for the stripey ceiling.