Ree's Room - Planning

Now that we have a functioning dryer again (heating element was broken due to overuse/abuse), we are hopefully done with home repair. That means it's time to move on to home improvement!

First up on the desperately needed home improvement list is Ree's room. She is getting a serious upgrade because:

• She has always hated the color of her room. She is turning 7 this week and has lived in the room for over 4 years. I feel kinda bad making her spend over half her life in a room that doesn't make her happy.
• Her ceiling fan is broken. You either get the fan and the light or nothing. This means she can't sleep with just the fan on in the summer, and it's a bit drafty in there in the winter if you want to see after dark.
• She is allergic to the carpeting. The previous owners had a cat that slept in there, and I've never been able to get all the dander out of the carpet.
• She is still sleeping in a toddler bed. As petite as she may be, this got to be silly about a year ago. At this point, it is getting to be borderline ridiculous.
• We are (finally! hopefully!) moving Natalia in there this fall, and we thought we would at least make the room nice before Ree is stuck with her little sister in "her" space.

Our first step is painting. A few weeks ago, Ree and I stopped at Lowe's, and she instantly fell in love with a line of paint for kids' rooms. She went home with a big stack of paint chips in really bright colors. I didn't think much of it, but that afternoon she spent a lot of time in her room. Around dinner she emerged with this sheet.

If you can't tell, the sheet has four columns, each with a theme and four colors of paint listed. She had decided to paint a different scene on each wall of her room. She then went through the paint chips and narrowed down the color scheme. She proudly told me, "We only need seven colors of paint!" Oh boy. I do have to give her credit in that they at least look pretty good together.

Since then there have been a few discussions with her on the cost of paint and what we can realistically accomplish. Last weekend we stopped by Lowe's again to get samples of four of the colors. I think we've narrowed it down to painting two walls fuschia and two walls royal blue with light pink accents, white trim, and white bunk beds. I am hoping the light pink and white break all the color!