Summer Home Tour

The last room upstairs in my home to showcase is my daughter's room.
When I found out I was having a girl, I was ecstatic. I went searching for the perfect shade of pink . . . the room absolutely had to be pink! I always wanted a pink bedroom growing up and never had one. I scoured and searched for the perfect accessories and put this room together when she was two years old. (because basically my daughter slept in a bassinet next to my bed and then in her crib next to my bed and then with me in my bed for a year in China).
We purchased a queen size bed frame for her because we wanted to recycle the mattress that was used in our guest bedroom (new baby took son's room, son took guest room).

This is my daughter's door from the hallway. (decals shown here)

The furniture is young America Isabella collection and I adore it! The mini chair and stool are from babystyle.com. The bookcase is from Target that I put together myself!

The view of her closet doors with more decals. The gorgeous chandelier(very bad photo, but it is pink and stunning) is from Posh Tots, one of my all time favorite catalogs!

Breyer Horse collection

I simply love these old frames and prints. I purchased them at an antique store(that has now since closed) and they fit prefect in her room.

Muffy VanderBear collection & Madame Alexander doll collection.

Desk, bookcase, nightstand, drapes (which I made). see that print on her desk, it used to be mine, it is one of my favorites. This print is from Brian Andreas' Storypeople's and it reads, "She said you know what heaven is like? & I said I wasn't sure & she laughed & said grown-ups didn't know much at all about important stuff & I said I had to agree with her even though I was one of them myself."

Big bed and all her stuffies that must remain on the bed while sleeping. This silk bedspread is from China and I only put it on her bed during the summer months. The normal covering is a gorgeous, heavy duvet that I also made. The main fabric in the room is Central Park Toile in pink. It is the same fabric on the mini chair, the bed skirt, the pillow shams (which I also made/both) and the drapes.

stuffies and dress up corner . . . under the sea of princess dresses and tutus is a stand that I made from a fence post, but very girly and very easy!

This is the view of the ceiling above my daughter's bed. I came up with this idea when she was a baby and have stuck with it. She adores her umbrellas. Most were purchased in China Town in San Fransisco.

Shelves with more Madame Alexander dolls. The Wizard of Oz doll collection is half mine. I love the Wizard of Oz and hope to pass this on to my children. The top shelf also holds her porcelain Chinese and Japanese dolls (from China).

Next week will be the last area of my house to show, the basement . . . it makes me sad because that also means the summer is basically over. I'm actually getting quite depressed thinking about my children going back to school. We are having such a fun summer, even though the weather has not cooperated with us fully on a daily basis, we are up to something fun and wonderful each day!

Son's Room
Baby Girl's Bedroom
Master Bedroom

Sun Room

Loos
Office
Kitchen & Family Room
Living Room & Dining Room
outside, entrance, foyer

Home Tour: Child Bedroom

I will continue the tour today on the upper level, to my son's room. He initially had baby girl's room, but when in 2006 when we returned from China, pregnant, we moved him into the guest bedroom. We let him pick the colors, theme and design. He was in love with SpiderMan at the time, so the theme is just that!

I think now, as he will be turning 8 at the end of the year, he is tiring of SpiderMan. I have moved a lot of the SpiderMan "elements" out of his room already (to sell at a garage sale), but nothing has really taken the place.His entrance, my son is all about skulls right nowthe first peek

SpiderMan mural & border

his beloved puppiesmore puppies

view of the dresser and the closet

this is more where the theme of the room is moving

dormer view, painted white or the room would be like a tombentertainment center/fish tank (that I am the only one who takes care of)book case/entertainment centerbaby girl likes to lay in brother's room and watch television {the little lambie is from Germany, I purchased it right before we got married (knowing that I would be getting pregnant asap), but my son never took to it, it lays on the floor now as a rug, baby girl loves to cuddle on it}

Daughter's Bedroom

Master Bedroom

Sun Room

Loos
Office
Kitchen & Family Room
Living Room & Dining Room
outside, entrance, foyer

Next week I will showcase my daughter's room and the following week I will finish the tour of my home in the basement. And then basically, summer is over (boo hoo).

The Summer Home Tour Continues

I have been off the past couple of Fridays from blogging and have missed this little last day of the week post, Tour of My Home . . . . today I am heading back upstairs in my home to show you one of my daughter's room.

When I found out I was having another girl I searched and scoured for the perfect pink colors and entire ensemble. Her nursery was stunning if I do say so myself. I used pink and black and Central Park Black Toile. Unfortunately, she never slept in her room or crib(not one single time).
And I can not believe that I do not have one single photo of her nursery (shame on me).

When she turned two, we took the crib down and made her room a play room for the children upstairs. Last month or so we purchased little baby girl new bedroom furniture and turned her room from the playroom back to a bedroom. I usually do not allow any toys in the children's bedrooms (makes the rooms too messy). However, I allowed the doll houses to remain in baby girl's bedroom because she will play so wonderfully by herself in here.

this decal is on the outside of the door this is the entrance to the bedroom this is the full on view, the bedroom is very small (if you recall the lower level has vaulted ceiling, thus stealing all the precious square footage from the upper level bedrooms) The Gorgeous, Stunning Chandelier (from PoshTots)
the top of the dresser (Muffy VanderBear & Breyer horse collections), recycled lamp from the nursery, doesn't work, but I have yet to find a replacement the new bed which has been slept in a total of 6 hours! (I will be making a duvet in the near future, that blanket is her crib blanket and yes, the crib padding is in between the bed and the wall) closer look at the pillows (I made the large pink, taffeta one)above the bed
close up of the frame above her bed (I adore this!!)Isn't this the cutest thing E.V.E.R! I used the pompoms and lanterns from baby girl's 3rd birthday party. I swiped the concept from here.
these are the frames on the wall beside the bed, they used to hang in the bathroom and I moved the frames in the nursery when I was creating this room, perfect fit, and so funny because I had the frames years prior!
The night stand and the drapes that I made, I simply bought this stunning pink taffeta at Hobby Lobby and used the old Shabby Chic velvet drapes (purchased at Target) as the liners. the closet doors with removable wall decals the wall opposite the bedcollections (Chinese & Japanese dolls purchased in China, Madame Alexander dolls)baby items that I can't bear to remove yet!miniature Madame Alexander doll collections from McDonald'sthe lamp
closer look at the paint under the chair railend of the bed dress up corner

hat boxes filled with stuffies, actually mostly all mine

inside the door above the light switch (I received this card from a lovely friend before I was even married and I think it is perfect for a little girl's room)

this is above her door way on the inside of her room

Next week, I will be at the Blogher conference so I am not sure if I will have time to prepost the next bedroom.

Master Bedroom

Sun Room

Loos
Office
Kitchen & Family Room
Living Room & Dining Room
outside, entrance, foyer