H-Haus Year in Review & Goals for 2012: Violet's Big Girl Room

Yesterday I shared the progress that we've made on the H-Haus back room. It's nearly complete and it's such a great feeling! Today I'm sharing the room that has come probably the furthest in a year, but still has such a looong way to go:

Violet's Big Girl Room

Another big (but still very incomplete) transformation of 2011 was Violet's big girl room. We've been using it as a play room for now, but when she's ready for it I'm hoping that it will be ready for her. We started with a pretty horrific before:

And needed pretty much a full overhaul. We ripped out the wall-to-wall zebra carpet, removed the animal-print-purse border, and exchanged the ginormous and ancient radiator for a smaller a less noticeable replacement. Next came some plaster-repair and dry-walling:

To get to where we are today:

A rug we purchased long ago from Anthropologie juuuust fit in the teeny tiny space. We hung up the banner that I made for Violet's first birthday party, threw in a few toys and an old chair, and called it a day. Since then I've slowly been gathering treasures here and there to finish the transformation from zebra bordello to a room fit for our little girl:

Etsy and the Land of Nod unearthed two pretty pillows and Lori Marie furnished the third as well as a pretty flower garland for the space. Since then I've gathered some terrarium prints, a lovely little pillow, a dottie quilt, a plush little dancer, a dollhouse made-with-love, a sweet little hook, and a squirrelly little lamp.

2012's to-do list will include:

• trim
• curtains
• a DIY botanical pull-down chart
• a floor lamp
• an antique serpentine dresser (maybe natural, maybe painted?)
• a mirror
• a completed dollhouse
• hand-painted pull-down shades
• sheets
• a twin mattress
• a headboard or bedframe
• and probably much much more

Whew! My pocketbook and I are exhausted just thinking about it - but it will be so worth it in the end. I wish that we had the budget (and the time) to do this a bit more quickly, but slow and steady wins the race, right!?



Tomorrow I'm going to share the longest-running project at the H-Haus (and it's one of the smallest rooms!)