Marrisa's bedroom had been decorated when she was just entering elementary school and she had been pleading with her father for a more mature room to entertain her friends in. Her father recognized the need for a change but was busy growing his business and it never happened. Enter Done in a Day Decorating!
After talking with Marrisa about what she had in mind, and her father about what limitations he needed to set, we developed a plan that would balance both their needs and keep the cost to a minimum. In the end the only purchases would be paint, a lamp, a decorative purple box, a small picture frame, 8 sheer curtain panels, and a dust ruffle!
Marrisa loved purple and with that in mind Ray had a few years earlier purchased a beautiful quilt for the room that had lots of purple in it and coordinated well with the blue carpet, which was in good condition and had to stay. With the quilt as inspiration, we chose a lovely purple for the walls. Every other decision was driven from this starting point.
Since decorators hate televisions, and teenagers love to watch television, Marrisa's TV would stay but we needed to hide it. On Ray's property stand 3 barns filled with things he knew he might need sometime in the future. Lucky for us, in one of them was an old armoire just waiting to be let out into the world. We also found lots of pictures of horses, and Marissa loves horses.
The armoire was bare wood so we decided to have some fun and paint it a green that we found in the quilt. The dresser in the room had dark pink drawers, so they would be painted the same color. With 3 painting assignments for Ray, the next step was finding an inexpensive way to handle the window treatments.
I called in my good friend, and "window treatment department" Kendra Weldon of Weldon Interiors. Ray and Kendra are also friends. She had some scraps of material leftover from past jobs that would work perfectly. Now they were scraps, and we needed 8 panels for 4 windows so she had to be creative! She decided to design floor length panels with a top and middle section made of 2 different fabric scraps, and the bottom section made from sheers she bought. They almost looked like a dress with a bodice and skirt, and Marrisa thought they would really be funky. Since neither Ray nor Marissa were sewers, Kendra kindly volunteered to sew them herself! We decided to use another scrap to make a head board by stapling it to a piece of foam insulation she had in her garage, and she made some coordinating pillows out of her own napkins.
After the purchase of a few items, a bit of redesign of the layout of the room, and the perfect placement of accesorries and artwork, the room was done, and Marrisa can no longer be extricated from the room except for school and food!
You can read the Channel 4 story and see a video clip on their website. Be sure to click on the link at the end of the story, as well as on the link to the top left of their little TV screen.
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