Starting a Makeover of a Teenage Inspired Bedroom

When we moved into our home, my daughter was 10 years old. Her room was plain and functional. But when she hit middle school and preteen age, she was allowed to decorate her bedroom in her own style.

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The preteen and teenage years are hard!

Especially for girls and their mothers.

Sometimes you pick your battles!  And her room was not one of them for me.

My daughter turned a teenager at the height of my busy interior design career. I was working in a very high-end hospitality design field and had a vision of what I wanted my home to look like—and I controlled it! Every aspect of the design and makeover process was my vision. 

I have to admit I was a bit overconfident and overly arrogant about my training and expertise. (Imagine me cringing as I write this.)

However, my husband (and my father) strongly encouraged me to let go of one room, and that was her room. It was probably after another fight with her about it.

But they were right. (Yes, I am admitting that, Brian!)

My daughter is a free spirit with a style and mind.  She needed her teenage bedroom to be hers, no matter what I wanted. 

I picked my battle. 

Encouraging my daughter’s creativity and saving my relationship with her was more important than designing her room to look what I wanted it to look like when she was 13. 

She got to pick the color and bedding and was allowed to put as many nail holes in the wall as she wanted over the years. 

The color was Rich Raisin by Behr, which is still in the room today!

These pictures also show it is a whole lot cleaner than it ever was when she lived here. 

Even her closet had to have color and personality!

Now it is 14 years later.

She got married last year and moved out. 

Her old bedroom desperately needs a makeover, and I am struggling to find the motivation to tackle those deep magenta-turned-purple walls.

I have waited a long time to paint over that color.  It is going to take a lot of work—lots of paint and time.

It is NOT going to be easy or fun. I want to do it, but I also don’t want to. Anyone who has ever tackled painting over a dark color knows exactly what I mean.

Hugs,

1 John 4:25 “If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.”

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