Category: Children's Bedroom

room reveal: the harlee girl's room

2/12/2019

When we moved to the farmhouse, almost two years ago, our Harlee-girl was ten years old.

She was (still is) VERY into basketball.

We had recently redecorated her room at the old house in a basketball theme...including a huge LeBron James cutout on the wall.

In fact, the buyers of that house kept LeBron on the back of the bedroom door before we had a place for it at the farmhouse.

Good ol' Dylan & Bailey. ❤️

So anyway...we moved into the farmhouse with the intent of building Harlee an enclosed closet in an enclosed bedroom.

We planned to decorate it using her basketball decorations and to hang LeBron on the newly constructed wall between her room and the playroom..

We had the best intentions, but...

Mr. Farmhouse hasn't gotten around to building that bedroom wall yet.

LeBron has been traded to the Lakers.

And now, our Harlee-girl is a 12-year-old who does still love the game of basketball, but asked for a "grown up room" for her birthday.

So goodbye to (most) of the basketball decor...and hello to her own pre-teen space.

Harlee's room sits on the west side of the upstairs and although it seemed like the smallest area when we first moved in, it really makes for a pretty large bedroom...just kind of long and rectangular-shaped.

Here are some "before pictures" of her bedroom. We painted the paneling and added a "closet" area. The original basketball decor can be seen here, as well.

Over the last year-and-a-half, Harlee expressed the desire to get rid of the loft bed and start to move away from her basketball-themed bedroom.

So...that's what we did.

Of course, her basketball curtains are still there and she still had to have her MU Women's Basketball poster and favorite Duke memorabilia!

So without further ado...Harlee's new room!

I love how even with the "grown up" parts of Harlee's new room, I can still see that little toddler who said, "Go Duke!" over and over for her Uncle G...and I love that her baby blanket still lays folded at the end of her bed.

Feeling sentimental here at the farmhouse tonight,
Hannah

❤️🏡❤️

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room reveal: the claire bear's room

12/14/2018

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From the moment I stepped into the one and only bedroom upstairs in the farmhouse, I knew it was meant to be the Claire Bear's.

It had a beautiful eastern view, where the sun would rise every morning for my sweet early-bird.

It had two closet doors with a long closet that met in the middle...a "secret-passageway" as she says.

And it had a little hatch that went into some attic storage that really made the oldest daughter nervous. "Who knows what might come out of there?" Harlee said that first day.

When we saw the listing for the house online, this was the picture of the upstairs bedroom...we now could call this the "before" picture. You can see the two closet doors on the left, the big windows facing the east, and the little hatch to the attic down on the bottom right of the photo.

We had originally talked about taking down the paneling upstairs and putting up sheetrock, but it seemed like kind of an unnecessary expense when the paneling was in good condition and when paint is an inexpensive option to brighten up a room.

You might remember the playroom transformation that I shared earlier this year. We used the same paint (Valspar's Warm Oatmeal) in all four upstairs areas (the playroom, each of the older girls' bedroom areas, and the new bathroom).

After the room was painted, we started to fit Claire's furniture in.

She knew she wanted BOTH closet doors accessible, so that left ONE place for her bed.

My mom had found an antique bedroom set at an auction that had "Claire" written all over it. There was a full bed and matching vanity. We fit those pieces in first and went from there. We covered the "creepy attic hatch" (as Harlee calls it) with her dresser and saved room for her desk by the window.

The picture on the right was the first day she was planning to sleep in her bedroom before we put pictures on the wall or carried in the rest of her furniture.

The other girls were so excited to help her "move in" and then they laid around chatting for a while before bed. This picture is now almost a year and a half old and I remember the memory like it was yesterday.

I remember thinking of this image when I walked upstairs as a vision into their future...

...when they're teenagers, lying around talking about school and (hopefully not too soon) boys...

...when one of them comes back from college and they all snuggle up to hang out on the weekends...

...and when they're all married with kids and their children go to play up in their mamas' rooms.

Since those pictures were taken back in July of 2017, we've gotten the windows in the farmhouse replaced and Claire Bear has her dream desk with her dream view.

It's not perfect, but it's all Claire!

I really can't wait to watch my sweet girl grow up in this bedroom. ❤️🏡❤️

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room reveal: the harlee girl's room

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