My daughter and I are a little outnumbered here at my house. Four boys to two girls. And that includes my husband, who, bless his heart, is technically like three boys in one. Plus the terrorist toddler, who is more like five boys in one. It’s man-demonium over here. (Thanks, that WAS a good one).
With four sons and one daughter, Randi knows the feeling well. Her daughter was craving a girly retreat of her own, especially since she’d been sharing a room with her younger brother since he was a baby. Finally he was big enough to bunk with the big boys, and Randi and her daughter set to work transforming this previously more masculine room into a girly glam paradise.
Is your inner 11-year-old girl squealing with delight? Mine is! Out went the tan walls and heavy blue drapes, and in came soft pinks, gold accents, and bright whites. It’s the epitome of dreamy. (Please someone start a girl-band and call it Dreamy Epitome, kthanks).
This dresser got a quick update with the most adorable handles shaped like little golden bows.
Randi recovered the cheetah print chair herself too. I love the little bit of contrast and edge it gives to this room!
This makeover didn’t happen overnight of course, Randi reports that the process took around six months, but that she and her daughter made memories every step of the way.
Lucky for me, Randi lives close by, and I’ve been able to visit her insanely gorgeous home a time or two. I pretty much just walk around, gaping in awe, secretly snapping pictures on my phone. She’s 100% amazing at what she does, no doubt about it.
See much more on her blog Randi Garrett Design.
10 Comments
Reenie
May 5, 2016 at 7:20 AMVery cute ~ love the headboard.
Trista
May 5, 2016 at 7:21 AMI would gladly move in to the before or the after. Beautiful job!
Laurie
May 5, 2016 at 9:26 AMForget my 11-year-old girl heart, my old-lady heart is squealing with envy… The whole room is adorable and pretty much exactly what I’m hoping for in my own space.
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Elaine Wagg
May 5, 2016 at 2:19 PMBoth the before AND after are better than what I’m used to. I’m coming around to pale pink…..time for a makeover at my own house?
Scarlet
May 5, 2016 at 2:59 PMI must’ve been a weird 11 yr old girl, because I would’ve HATED that. I never did like pink. In fact, I actively LOATHED it. I’ve also never liked the animal print trend, and isn’t it time for that to die YET?
I shared a room with my brother until we were 8 and 4 – the 3rd, smallest bedroom had been my playroom before he was born, and was kept as such until the split. Then I got the tiny room (which irritated me right there, because, after all, I was there first, right? so I should’ve been able to keep my old, much bigger room, and let the Johnny-Come-Lately brat get the small one!). Despite me being 2 when we moved in, my parents had painted the bedroom blue anyway, and I guess maybe they were too lazy to want to paint 3 bedrooms at once (they re-did their own at the same time) by leaving the boy in the blue room and putting me into the unobjectionably green playroom. I was OK with green.
We went to spend a weekend with our grandmother, and they *surprised* me by moving me into the green room – which they had painted PINK in my absence! I seriously cried. My parents got a new queen bed and I got their old double, and they left the twin bed set in my old room. Their bed had a high, white, camel-backed, button-tufted headboard in some weird 60s textured vinyl hybrid that made a creepy slithering sound when you brushed it. They also got new bedding and I got their old pink floral comforter (which was some kind of satin-polyester hybrid and slid onto the floor all the time), pink floral sheets, pink blanket, and pink dotted Swiss ruffled bedskirt (all that was my mother’s when she was in high school). Even the old metal Hollywood bed frame was enameled pink! They split up my bedroom set, giving me the dresser and mirror and my brother the chest of drawers, and my half went from white to pink. Pink and white horizontally striped curtains, too. Even a couple of pink throw rugs. Oh, and they got a new alarm clock-radio, and gave me this giant pink 50s Bakelite case that was also my mother’s from when she was a kid, and it took up almost half the dresser top. This clock-radio was literally the size of a computer monitor. It was HUGE and HUGELY PINK. It was a Skittles rainbow of every shade of pink under the sun.
It was like a strawberry milkshake vomited in that room, I swear, and they were not amused at my stunned, weeping reaction to this hot mess of a surprise. The only décor scheme that might’ve made me cry harder would’ve been the Mod Squad orange-gold-peach thing they did to their room. Talk about traumatizing for an 8 yr old. I suppose back in the day people didn’t consult their kids about their rooms and you got what you got.
I’m tellin’ ya, it was so traumatizing that I handed a bunch of paint chip strips to my one-yr-old when we moved and let him pick his room color! I always wonder on these kid room re-do’s if they’re what Mommy wants, or if the kid really WANTS leopard or zebra or pink or frou-frou or whatever.
Man, I think I need therapy from that pink room LOL
Terresa
May 5, 2016 at 6:09 PMOh, that’s awesome!!! Really, really pretty!
Randi
May 5, 2016 at 8:21 PMLindsey thank you so much for sharing my daughter’s room! You are the sweetest!!! xo Randi
enna
May 6, 2016 at 6:54 AMBoth the before and after are lovely, but I’m struggling to find an interpretation under which the before can be considered “masculine” by any stretch of the imagination! This seems like a transformation from “feminine” to “ultra-girlie.” I love the headboard.
Karisa Kinkade
May 11, 2016 at 11:50 AMThis is so sweet! At 11 I would have loved this room! The new hardware on the dresser is just perfect and it looks like it was a fairly simple upgrade. I absolutely love it, thanks for sharing!
Tiffany
June 4, 2016 at 12:02 PMBoth versions of this room are lovely. Heading off to vacation and I foresee an evening of digging into a new blog to follow. Can’t wait!