How to Create a Flower Wall & Design a Closet: Kids Bedroom Makeover Week Two:

Week two of transforming this room into a magical room fit for a 3 year old with big dreams and an even bigger imagination. 

If you’re new to the One Room Challenge, it’s all in the name.

Designing a 3 year olds room is magical when you allow them to play a leading role in the design. As I hadn’t designed a nursery for Charlotte I have felt like I have needed to pull all of those lovely details from her marvellous mind.

I have started to create an enchanted corner of her room, there are two parts to this project, this week I will be sharing the flower wall.

I had this idea that I wanted flowers to be suspended from the ceiling, not like a mobile more like a fountain. I internalised this and ended up with a flower wall. I wanted them to seem like they were suspended in air. I had one pine piece left over from when I made the kids glamping tents.

To create this flower wall I used some left over pine, cut to the desired length and fishing line. Charlotte is a pink girl and I am loving Dulux Rose Gold as an accent colour in her room. 

Once I cut the pine to size; I primed and sprayed the pine a lovely Rose Gold and pre drilled holes along the top of the timber, I had originally drilled the holes at 150mm intervals but decided to add a hole inbetween. 

You may be surprised to know I picked all of my flowers from Bunnings; although I am at bunning weekly I had never thought of buying home decor items but I accidentally found myself in the faux floral aisle and found the EXACT flowers I was looking for and they were the perfect colour.

It took me a while to get going. It looked pretty bad to begin with, most projects look terrible before they start to take shape, it’s always hard to pull the ideas out of your head to figure it out.

I was fairly non committal to begin with so used painters tape to stick the fishing line to the top of the frame then began the process of adding flowers. I wanted it to look full so pulled the leaves off the flowers so I could add them separately.

I realised relatively quickly that I needed some sort of process; after a little trial and error I finally settled on a rythm and after about an hour of stringing flowers I finally started to like how it was turning out.

I’ll have to finish it in place so will give you an update on the final installation once painting has been completed.

Wardrobe Design

I have never designed a kids wardrobe before so I spent a lot of time thinking about what needed to be stored, the closets in our previous house were completely disfunctional for kids so I wanted to make sure the design was well thought out.

You can see the design process below. But essentially I have added drawers and shelves and some smaller hanging space. I felt like we needed a lot of drawers so opted for extra wide drawers in the middle spanning 800cm. I can add dividers if I need to but this will allow me to store all of those little items of clothing and the hanging space is narrower but there are two sections, I feel like this is more than needed but she will grow into this space.

We still have a long way to go and this is a rough guide of what we plan to share over the coming weeks.

• Week One: Design Overview
• Week Three:  Painting
• Week Four: A place for the Fairies
• Week Five: ??? Not sure yet
• Week Six: Flooring
• Week Seven: Finishing Touches
• Week Eight: Final Reveal

Happy renovating

Claire 

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