Maggie's 16th birthday is coming up and after much deliberation, she decided to redecorate her room instead of having a party.
(kind of made me sad - I've been planning her sweet 16 since she was born!)
Anyway, she wanted her room to look really different, so she began shopping for styles that she liked months ago.
After a trip or two to different stores with her, I suggested that she check her personal progress book to see if all of these shopping hours could be used towards any of her goals. Sure enough - it would be perfect for her 10 hour project in Divine Nature!!
So she began keeping a pretty detailed notebook of her hours, things she wanted, prices, pictures, color swatches, receipts etc.
Here is her room before:
notice the color test for just the right yellow on her wall?
Finally - we began the project
Tommy hired Scotty to help build the wall that she wanted
during all of this, maggie was diagnosed with mono and ordered to rest - she refused because she was eager to finish - but sometimes, she gave in to being wiped out!
her cool new fan
putting together some furniture - at about 1:00 a.m. - she chose to buy all of the main pieces from affordable Ikea in order to stay on budget
(by the way, she DID NOT succeed in that effort - not even close!)
again - the before...
...the after
before...
...after
before...
... after
Thanks to daddy and Scott for building the wall, and to Mariah for sewing all of those pillows!
1 comment:
ooh. i love the built-in. unfortunately, my room is way small so that wouldn't work in mine. I LOVE the yellow though! My room seriously needs to be redone so bad! It has not been redecorated since it was my sisters room a long time ago!
Oh and thanks for mentioning it was a Divine Nature project! That is totally how I will convince my mom to let me redo my room. Shes the Personal Progress leader in our ward..she can NOT say no! :P
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