Two weeks ago in this post, we talked about decorating your rental home. Today we’re looking at making over a little girl’s room in a rental home.
While not a horrible space, the powerful lavender palette and matching paisley blind are a little too 80’s for most people. Now usually the paintbrush and white paint would be out in a flash during a makeover, however knowing the client’s exit date here we resisted and worked with what we had. Here you see the empty room before…
With this type of setting your best bet is to accessorise with large pieces in your preferred colour tones to offset (distract from) the dominant colour. For this little girl’s room the plan was to bring in lots of whites and creams to take away from the pink, as well as using wood and wicker accents to add more texture and warmth to the space. We also wanted to add in elements of black and/or grey to create a more modern, timeless feeling.
These inspiration images got the ideas ball rolling…
images This is the final concept board we put together. Clearly a girl’s room with all the pink, but designed with carefully thought out pieces and minimal without being bare.
images From the floor plan you can see it’s a fairly small room and dictates where you can put the crib – a key piece of furniture! Opposite the bedroom door is a no go, central and under the window wouldn’t be ideal either, so the most logical spot is in the far corner from the door. The really good thing about this room is the crazy amount of cupboard storage, ruling out the need for additional furniture items like chest of drawers.
Since little kids spend most of their time playing on the floor, the room needed to accommodate this as much as possible. Games, books, teddies – these all need to be easily accessible to a toddler. A teepee is clearly a must – because what self respecting toddler doesn’t have a teepee these days? This is the final room layout….
So now we have the the inspiration board and colour story, as well as the floor plan for the space. Watch this space for the finished room reveal.