Teen Dream

I have been VERY busy since my last post. My cousin (we can call her A), who lives with us, (she is basically my little sister) has been wanting to redo her room. Of course, I took the idea and ran with it. She had a pottery barn wrought iron bed with mattress and box spring set that we sold on craigslist for about $500 so we were working on a budget. She wanted a day bed (so it would be like a couch and give her more room) and I found one on craigslist for $59. We got her a mattress for around $100 and it is actually really comfy. Paint was around $50 dollars and accessories (including curtains and a shag rug) around $200. So we came in right around $400. Pretty good if I may say so myself.
B and I bought her a comforter set and sheets along with a few zebra throw pillows for her birthday. We got it all at walmart and I think spent around $30 each. That is not included in the $400 total bc it was a bday gift. It is a light pink color. She wanted pink walls so I went to home depot when they were having a paint sale and got a darker fuschia color. It is SO pretty! To tone down the pink we got her black panels for her windows (also from walmart) for around $20 a pair. She has two windows so it came in at a whopping $40 for window treatments. My friend K came up with the idea to paint an A on her wall so I came up with doing it in chalkboard paint. The A is over her bed and on the opposite wall I painted black polka dots in chalkboard paint. I used a protractor and just painted them in. I was afraid the chalkboard paint would not go on well but it was easy as pie! chalkboard paint is only about $10 for a quart and is a super cute and cheap artwork idea. We bought colored chalk so her friends can all sign her wall and write little messages etc.
Her desk top was looking a little rough so I came up with the idea of decoupaging it. I went to michaels and got about 12 pieces of scrapbook paper and just layered them on to decoupage it. It only cost about $6 total and looks super cute!
She wanted a bulletin board (which I thought would be tacky) so I bought some cork board squares and hung four up and framed them with black and white small polka dotted ribbon.
Over the A we hung some wire and used small clothespins to hang up pictures we printed off from walgreens. We bought a 5x8 pink shag rug at bed bath and beyond for about $40. She wanted a zebra room but instead of going crazy with the zebra theme we just used a few zebra pillows and incorporated other coordinating pillows. I figured she would probably get tired of zebra so it would be easy (and inexpensive) to trade out a few pillows. S0, for a total of about $400 (but basically free bc we already had the pottery barn bed we sold to redo the room with ) we completely transformed a drab room into a fab room! She is completely exstatic about it and barely ever comes out. Yes, we made a teenager happy!!!! WOO HOOO! Mission accomplished!

(pictures to come...)