Mermaid Bedroom Make-Over

My lovely niece upgraded her bedroom to a big girl standard twin bed rather than the adorable Cottage style bunkbed that she had been using.  This means that we inherited the Cottage bed. Yay! I decided to use it in our five year old daughter's bedroom but she had some specific bedroom decor requests.  

1.  No pink and purple little girl colors.  I want adult lady colors.  (What does that even mean?)

2.  I want a mermaid, underwater, sea bedroom but not the Little Mermaid.  Big girl mermaids.  

3.  I want big girl decorations not little kid decorations. 

Ok... I think that I can work with these requests. Here we go!

BEFORE: As you can see we had a teal, mint and coral color scheme in the old bedroom.  I started by removing her bed from the room to give myself room to set up the new Cottage bed.  I also removed any decor that wouldn't match the new theme and set aside items that could be painted and re-used.  I also took down her old posters of Disney movies as they are not "big girl" enough to fit in with the new theme.  

 

Next I painted the purple, pink and green Cottage bed so that we didn't have any "little girl colors" in the room.  I used my Chalky & CO painter's powder mixed with latex paint I had on hand to insure a smooth coat of well-covering paint that will adhere wonderfully to the particle board that the bed is made from with little pre-work.  I lightly sanded each piece to scratch it up a bit and give the paint a better surface to adhere to.  Side note- this bed was super heavy to carry in and set up alone! haha

I moved her dresser to the apposing wall to make room for the cottage bed and re-painted her "P" with the same gray that I used on the bed.  I left the frame turquoise because that is an acceptable "adult lady color".  NOTE- I did end up taking down the large metal butterfly also. I may use it on the back patio.  Love to re-use and re-purpose!

I used the same paints to make this custom sign to hang in her room.  Almost got into trouble for the pink sea-shells. ;-) The paper fans were saved from her big sisters's birthday party at the beginning of the month. 

I snagged this cute cardboard arrow at Hobby Lobby on clearance for less than $2!  Painted it with the blue from the bed and cut a custom stencil- Mermaids Cove.  It makes for cute door decor!

Another Hobby Lobby clearance find.  Every Mermaid, underwater, sea bedroom needs a big blue whale!  Now to find some cute decor to set on the shelf. 

I grabbed this cute bedding on sale too (it was our color inspiration).  Found mermaid figurines, octopus statue, whale tale and beach wood basket at Hobby Lobby and TJ Max.  Paige herself painted the dragon, whale, Piggy bank and sea turtle on the top shelf.  

Also found this cute Sea horse to add to her existing corner shelves. 

On one of my many trips to Michael's I came across (on sale!) this cute beachy lantern and tiny sea decor.  As many of you know we love Fairy gardens, Fairy houses and all things tiny so having a tiny Mermaid Lagoon in the bedroom was a perfect find for us! 

Paige is very happy with her big girl, adult lady colored, mermaid, underwater, sea bedroom make-over.  Now lets just hope she keeps it clean! Hahahaha.  Who am I kidding?! 

Thanks for stopping by and checkin in on my 4 Little Byerlys.  Have a great day!