week 6: one room challenge | reveal day

welcome to the final week of the calling it home one room challenge.   if you have followed along, i worked on transforming my teen daughter, alexandra's room.  she is edgy, built her gaming computer, loves harry potter and dr.  who, and is quite the individual.  this design contains some of my design influence with plenty of her design choices and requests weaved in.  it is bold, bright, and full of energy and edge, just like her.   this was done on a tight budget, remember the salamandre zebra fabric i chose?  you will see the $80 less per yard version in the custom pillows on her bed.  i opted to invest in the zebra rug instead.  

modern jungle funk final reveal  

these are my amateur shots of the room all styled and accessorized...

for the before photos, click here.  the area is large and had to include a desk/computer/gaming area, a reading nook, a sleeping/bed area and a place to store her gaming and youtube video designing supplies.  

in lieu of ordering art from minted, one of the  one room challenge sponsors, i opted to float frame two of alexandra's pastel feather art pieces.  these are hung above her chest of drawers (she also wanted to keep her childhood bedroom set).  check out the minted site, you can get high-quality art prints frames or not at really good prices...i plan on ordering minted art for my next room/project.  

 her desk!  i painted this one from world market in a black, industrial paint that takes on the look of lacquer.  i've found a source for a campaign style, gold drawer pull but have it hasn't come in yet.

 this mirror was graphite before i sprayed it gold.

 love, love, love this all white wall to the entry of her bathroom (another project for another time!).

 some of her favorite books styled on this ikea bookshelf...

just a tiny sample of her book collection and a dr. who tardis she sculpted from clay.  

the reading nook and the chair she found at marshall's...and, my sloppy "i am tired of styling and photographing" writing on the blackboard wall.  

a styled side table.  vintage, brass vase with a vintage blue willow dish full of her coins from all over the globe and a gold target sunburst sculpture. 

 the replacement salamandre print zebra fabric all crafted (the wonderful upholsterer at snip/tuck) into pillows.  the owner is amazing, she grew up sewing, it's her passion and she can do just about anything you wish.  the bedding set we bought long ago from ikea and alexandra wanted to keep it.

 a little nook...found this awesome table at a resale shop and these stools (they open and solve my storage issue for her gaming/computer supplies) at target!!!

 a monstera leaf (i guess they are named this because they are huge...this was the medium size).

the major purchase was this zebra print rug from joss & main.  we layered it over a sisal rug trimmed in black that we had from our old country house.  those shoes...aren't they great?  alex is taking a trip to hawaii and will wear these through the airport...comfy and she can just slip them off and on again through security.  

lastly, thank you to linda at calling it home and all the bloggers for the support and kind words.   here's to all the fun and countless hours designing our spaces; and on to the next project.  much love, dana 

p.s.  i'm on instagram...i have yet to figure out how to code the darn gadget into this blog.