Tween Girl Bedroom Makeover

 

The thought of my daughter, Brooklyn, being a “tween” makes me all sorts of emotional. She is 10 and approaching 11 rapidly. She has more of an opinion about her room now and individual style and wanted a change. Brooklyn loves looking at different styles on Instagram and looked for some bedroom inspiration online until she knew what she wanted exactly. She said, “I want light grey with accents of blush and gold and lots of white. I love the vintage, shabby chic style still but I want it to look more grown-up and nothing to sparkly or look like a nursery!” Oh mercy lol! So, goodbye little girl room and hello tween girl bedroom makeover! (Note: *Paint colors used will be shared at the end of post.)

Brooklyn’s room before was darling, or so we used to think. It had a twin bed (first thing to go) and just too small if we had cousins or family staying with us. I just LOVED the headboard that was a vintage shabby chic dream, found in a Waco barn, and paid just $5 for it. I will be repurposing it into something else soon. I am still deciding what exactly I want to do with it. Please forgive the sub-par photos with horrible lighting and taken on my phone.
Her furniture was vintage and passed down from my mother-in-law so I didn’t want to get rid of it. However, the furniture pieces were all painted in an array of light aqua, pink and white.

I even found a French Provincial dresser and painted it cotton candy pink and added a cute, vintage window with one of our favorite quotes.
Meh! Again, we loved it years ago but a tween girl bedroom makeover was exactly what we needed! I kept hearing, “Mom, this room is too babyish for me now!” {tear}
Ok, well those pics above were an embarrassment but we loved it when we first did it and this bedroom has moved 2 more times since it’s completion in 2010. Now, for the after…

We love grey in this home, I’m sure it was hard to tell…ha! Brooklyn fell in love, as did I, with the Restoration Hardware Baby & Child “Colette” Bed. The light grey wash finish on the wooden trim, the grey tufted fabric, the feminine shape and lovely carvings inspired by Louis XV. Everything about it was what we were looking for and we looked at a TON of beds! All shapes, styles, brands, manufacturers….we really hunted for the perfect bed for this girls tween bedroom makeover.

We found these large euro sham white pillows. This lovely white ruffle coverlet with a white ruffle bedskirt brightened the room up as well.The light grey quilt and shams were the perfect addition of grey and texture to the bedding. The lovely blush shabby chic ruffle throw blanket is from my online shoppe and looked perfect thrown at the end of the bed to add another soft hint of blush.

We found three accent pillows of different shapes and textures and they all brought different touches of shabby chic, traditional, and that trendy, tween vibe. That gold sequin bow pillow was such a fun find and balanced out the room so that it wasn’t, as Brooklyn put it, too “vintage-y and old”.

The french provincial nightstands were very reasonable priced from Craigslist and we made sure to spray the hardware with a muted gold. *All paint colors will be listed at the end of this post. The mirrors were such a fun clearance find at Tuesday Morning and the flower petal shape complimented the flowers that hang above her bed. I really love the soft blush faux peonies we found at Home Goods. I also found this darling crown dish there as well and it’s perfect for the many nights (pretty much every night) that she’s already in bed and hasn’t remembered to take off her earrings. There they go.

Using an existing lamp from Hobby Lobby and existing frames (one of which we painted blush to add more color) we were able to cut down on the cost.

I love this distressed white chandelier! However, if you are on a tight budget, check out this DIY chandelier tutorial I did a couple of weeks ago and easily make your own for a fraction of the price. And I actually got Brooklyn’s approval on this chandelier since, even though she loves bling, she didn’t want a very sparkly chandelier like she used to have. Right before we moved, I made these prints (in the background) on Photoshop and on my Silhouette Cameo™ of blush and gold uplifting messages and mottos. She absolutely LOVED them! They are all things she does or already lives by and so it made it even more personalized.

One of my favorite pieces in this room…these Large Paper Wall Flowers made by My Sparkled Life. Trista does such an incredible job making these and they are such a special, unique piece of art that everyone has commented on and swooned over.

This blush crepe paper butterfly caught my eye as I left Pottery Barn Kids one day. We thought it would be a lovely accent on the wall and perfectly resembles the young woman she is transforming into and spreading her wings. Don’t leave the cocoon just yet, little butterfly! Neither of us are ready for that! 🙂

These sheer white curtains with small ruffles frame Brooklyn’s bay windows perfectly. They are sheer enough to let the bright light in, long and straight-edged for those strong lines it needed but then a few small ruffles to compliment the femininity of the room. The “shine” gold sequin banner from Pottery Barn Kids is such a beautiful message to wake up to each morning and describes what my daughter does every day of her life. Of course, it compliments that gold sequin bow pillow on her bed perfectly and brings out the gold mirrors and hardware.

UPDATE: We I felt the room needed more blush and talked Brooklyn into letting me make some blush curtains from this gorgeous fabric I found at JoAnn’s Fabrics.

I love how they turned out and looks so much better! See more HERE in the Christmas Bedroom Decor post.

Remember that blue vintage dresser (above) from my mother-in-law? We kept it, of course, and painted it. We used the IKEA Ung Drill frame and spray-painted the B letter gold and sprinkled some glitter on it. Brooklyn and I discussed painting this mini dress form with chalk paint and it was a little scary but we did it. We saved a few pennies and it turned out great. We displayed the jewelry that matched her room and put the rest on knobs inside her closet.

The drawer knobs on top were a lovely muted gold with glass beads and then the rest of them were such a pretty gold mercury glass. My tween wasn’t sure about these when doing this makeover but I pushed her to just put them on and then see. Yes, she fell in love and I got my way! All of them were on sale from Hobby Lobby.

Let’s talk about the actual bed, or mattress, that Brooklyn gets to sleep on. This mattress from LexMod is absolutely INCREDIBLE!!

This Aveline Foam Mattress from LexMod is 10″ and has 3 layers of foam. At first, I was very skeptical about its size. We weren’t very sure thinking whether it’ll be enough for our girl. And my sister had recently bought a King-size bed after checking Bed Sizes UK Guide and it turned out to be perfect! My initial plan was to get a similar king-size mattress, but then I decided against it. A few days later, we bought Aveline Foam Mattress and it ships for free, I received it in a box. Yes, a box! It is air tight and rolled up and vacuum sealed in a tube box. We easily carried it upstairs and put it on the bed and watched it expand into an actual mattress. Amazing! It is actually as comfortable as the king memory foam mattress on our bed that we bought last year for over $1,000. Oh how I wish we’d known about the LexMod Aveline mattress first! It’s only $249! {gasp!}

Now, for her vanity…

Can you believe I found this vanity on the side of the road? Yep, when we lived back in Waco it was sitting there with a “FREE” sign on the side of a road one morning and I grabbed it so quickly. I could hardly believe it. I gave it a fresh coat (even though it was in good condition) and added gold mercury glass knobs from Hobby Lobby. I had found the mirror at a garage sale and it had been in the garage. When we did the makeover, I knew it had to be gold. I have some gold/fur stool choices listed below but this was a stool I already had. I just sprayed it gold as well and add fur fabric (by the yard from JoAnn’s) and hot-glued it over the top and overlapped it on the bottom, underneath. Easy peasy, right?! I have the gold paint linked below as well.

*Paint colors used in Tween Girl Bedroom Makeover: Wall color – Stone White by Glidden , Grey nightstands and dresser – Old Monterey Grey by Glidden, Blush frame and dress form – Romance by Sherman Williams.

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