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    Kids Rooms -- lets share!

    Anyone care to post pics of their kids rooms? It sounds like a lot of people at this site have creative, very cute kids rooms!

    PLEASE SHARE!!! I'd love to see what you've done!

    I'm on our desktop right now and our laptop has all the good pics -- but has been a bit wacko with loading pictures lately. I'll wrestle with it later today and post some of mine...

    Here's half of DD's room. The other side has her closet door, a small table and you can see her dollhouse better.


    Here's half of DS's room. He has a small floor chair in front of one of the windows, a closet door and lots of room to play. I LOVE his carpet. We also need a mattress for his top bunk. When we moved he was barely two so when baby #3 comes, he gets to choose where he sleeps at night and the ladder comes out. He's a bit of a daredevil but he'll be almost four when baby comes so we'll see how it goes.




    Finally here is 25% of the playroom. I can't get it to turn so I'm sorry for the crick in your neck!


    Flynn

    Wife to post training CT surgeon; mother of three kids ages 17, 15, and 11.

    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets " Albus Dumbledore
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    http://picasaweb.google.com/heidilamore ... 5642402850

    Here is Alexia's room after we just moved and decorated it as her nursery. It hasn't changed a lot. The furniture has moved around some, and she has a twin bed now instead of a crib.
    Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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    • #3
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      Well, as soon as I get the walls painted, etc. I'll definately post. Right now, the walls are white, the ceiling is white, the trim is white...see a pattern? with dark navy carpeting that I can't wait to get rid of because it needs to be vacuumed all the time.

      We've been S.L.O.W.L.Y. fixing up the house since we moved here (almost 2 years!) but it seems that boring have-to-do-right-now stuff keeps getting in the way. New roof, multiple fixings of the boiler/furnace, reseed new lawn b/c the little landscaping man who doesn't know what he's doing killed it with too much fertilizer...

      After we paint DS's room, we plan on ripping up the carpet in his room and our room and re-carpeting with a neutral color. Then we need to replace the stair runner that we removed when we redid the floors. THEN, we will focus on the bathrooms which are the UGLIEST bathrooms in the world. I can't wait!! Bye-bye maroon tile and some weird texturing material that looks like bad stucco! woohoo!

      sorry, got off track...

      Stay tuned for DS's room...
      Wife to a PGY-7 Interventional Cardiology Fellow, Mom to two. DS(7) and DD(3).

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        I actually didn't do Nikolai's room as a 'kid' room. We move too much to risk having to repaint a kid room as a 'neutral' to put yet anouther house on the market. For the DC house which functioned as his nursery, the colors were also neutrals and I had one strip of a border than can be removed with water.
        his room is Behr "Irish Mist" with I think it's called "granite" or "boulder" or something- it's three steps away on the paint card. Very generic. We have hung antique maps and his Russian stuff (the icon of St. Nikolai, etc) on the walls. Since I took this picture, we've switched him to a double bed and brought in the dresser that matched the double bed. The bed is perpendicular to the position of the toddler bed- as in it's along the wall- mostly so that he doesn't fall out of the bed- and we have a siderail up on the exposed side of the bed.


        Ultimately, should we stay, that room will become the guest room and we'll move him upstairs.

        Jenn

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        • #5
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          Excellent!

          I can't decide what to do over the changing table or for the window treatment. I keep waiting for something to grab me. Also the quilts hanging were both made by family members, and the chifforobe was mine when I was a kid.









          Also there are lots of real nurseries at http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/home-tours if you like that kind of thing.
          Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
          Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

          “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
          ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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            We didn't paint Adele's room, we did the decorating with wall hangings, etc.




            Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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            • #7
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              Such cute rooms!! Julie, I love the embroidery hoop frames....I'm doing the same thing above DD's crib. I saw the project on purlbee.com and loved it.

              Both kids rooms are works in progress right now so I'll have to post picks when the work is done. DH installed 6' beadboard in DS's room and it is capped with a 3" deep rail to hold pictures. I'm pretty proud of the work he did. :mydoc: The beadboard is white to match the rest of the trim and the 3' of wall above the beadboard is sort of a Carolina Blue.....it's Benjamin Moore paint, but I can't remember the actual name. Accent colors in the room are red, denim blue & navy blue. I can't find a shower curtain with red or navy in it, so I'm going to try to turn an extra sheet that I have that matches his bedding into a shower curtain. We'll see how that one goes.

              We were hoping to have DD's room done a couple months ago, but we all got sick and had to hold off on things for awhile. DH finally finished painting it a couple of days ago and I'm happy with the color. The walls are BM "Perky Peach".....the color looks more pink than peach. The bedding just arrived the other day and I love it. I'm going to attempt to make the window treatments myself. The fabric is from this Freshcut colorway:



              The crib is a white Jenny Lind. It arrived last week and is now currently on a UPS truck being shipped back to the factory because it had a crack in one of the pieces. The new one should be here (hopefully!) by the end of the week. We picked up a matching Jenny Lind changing table from Craig's List and DH is working on painting it turquoise. I also picked up a small black chandelier from CL that we are going to paint a spring green to match the green in the fabric. The room will definitely be colorful!

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              • #8
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                Originally posted by Makai
                I saw the project on purlbee.com and loved it.
                Yeah, exactly! I bet you will pick great fabrics--mine were just whatever I could find at the fabric store down the street. I like the green one but the pink one is just meh.
                Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
                Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

                “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
                ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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                • #9
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                  Cute rooms! Flynn... your playroom rug brings back fond memories for me. We had it in DD#2 room.

                  I did my best to take photos. We have no window treatments yet because our windows in the new house are bigger than the ones in the old house so I think I am altering the curtains from there for two of the girls and getting DD#1 some new ones. However, she doesn't like change so she is expecting to have her same curtains and I am planning on giving them to DD#2 because they match better. The girls picked out their own paint colors for their new rooms. DD#3 got the leftover paint from DD#2's old room because it matched her bedding. The older girls got new bedding for their last birthdays right before we moved. The rest of the stuff is hodge podge of what we had in their old rooms and playroom.

                  DD#1

                  Her room is very large. It is supposed to be a bonus room over the garage, but we needed it for a bedroom. Half of the room has sloped walls. Her furniture is the bedroom furniture I used growing up.









                  DD#2

                  Next to her built in desk is her closet and between her bed and dresser are two windows.






                  DD#3




                  Needs

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                  • #10
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                    That's it. You all have some MAD decorating skills. I need an intervention quick! Along with a fashion and cooking rehab weekend. Can you all help.

                    BTW, Phoebe, I'm contemplating buying that doll house book case from Tar-get Boutique myself. I love it!

                    Kelly
                    In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.

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                    • #11
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                      You have all inspired me. DD's "princess" room consists of a castle mural and a rocking dragon. That's it - my excuse has been that I'm waiting for the builder to fix our nail pops. Excuses no more. I just figured out a cute way (I think) to make window treatments - a satin panel for curtain and a glittered tool valence. Wish me luck - I'm on my way to the fabric store after getting together some paint samples that match the color in the mural. I figure once I buy the fabric, it will take a couple of weeks of procrastination before I actually make the curtains, at which point, our nail pops will be fixed and I can pick out some paint. I'll post pics when it's all done. DS just moved into his totally plain nursery, so I guess that will be next.
                      -Deb
                      Wife to EP, just trying to keep up with my FOUR busy kids!

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                      • #12
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                        I love to decorate kids rooms. We still are poor and live in an apartment, but I have always wanted to do a mural so I went ahead and painted anyway. These were taken before baby was born, the frames now have pictures of animals.





                        Here is my little man after I added a lion on the wall.


                        Sorry that the pictures are gigantic. For some reason photobucket keeps shutting down when I try to resize.

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                        • #13
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                          Wow, Cherry, you are really gifted! People would pay you a lot of money to paint murals on their walls!
                          Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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                            those are really wonderful Cherry! I wish you lived by me - I'd hire you!

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                              Originally posted by Vanquisher
                              Wow, Cherry, you are really gifted! People would pay you a lot of money to paint murals on their walls!
                              ITA


                              Umm yeah like ME!! Figures you are on the east coast

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