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Girls Room Decor Ideas – Our Eclectic Style

January 4, 2016 by Ashley Hackshaw

Looking for some girls room decor ideas? We recently updated / re-arranged Boo’s room. I guess you’d call it an eclectic thrift store vintage style, the style that most everything in our house follows now.

This is her desk area. I love this 1950’s metal desk that was handed down to us from our friends Nick and Suzie…straight out of Mad Men:

I pretty much just let her hang whatever we have on the wall, the only rule is that I get to hang it. The rainbow cloud banner was a gift from my friend Kristi at Schnitzel & Boo (she takes custom requests!). The bee banner is from a friend’s local gallery called Bee Global. Boo made the owl that’s hanging on the wall:

And then there’s the stuffed animal storage that I wrote about the other day (click here for the post):

And her bed…it’s just a twin bed with no headboard. She likes that it’s like a “couch.” I’m good with that. She still has the purple and white bedding from a few years ago. She says she has outgrown the purple and wants black, white or gray now…her birthday is coming up so we’ll see what happens!

The side of the room with her new bookshelf to store her Lego’s. (Click here to find the entire post on the Lego storage from a few days ago.) We might have a piece of plexiglass cut to cover the front of it when little nieces and nephews come to visit:

The Choose Joy painting was a gift from my friend artist Stephanie Corfee a few years back when I was diagnosed with cancer. (it’s an original painting but Stephanie does have prints available in her Etsy shop!)

The wall next to her closet has hooks for jackets and sweatshirts:

We collect pins from all of our adventures. I hung a front-opening shadow box on the wall (from Michaels) and the lid opens easily to add pins:

So cool to be able to see these each day:

Boo made this poster about Max her dog and she hung it on her closet door:

Her chest of drawers and a thrift store dollhouse:

All of the doll house furniture is stored inside:

That’s all for now!

Click here to see more photos of projects around our house in small town USA.

and/or

Click here to see photos of the house we renovated and decorated in California not too long ago.

and don’t forget the Old Depot Project!

Lego Storage and Display Ideas

January 2, 2016 by Ashley Hackshaw

Yesterday I shared the stuffed animal storage solution for Boo’s room. Now onto the Lego storage…because let’s be honest it can be hard living with Legos. Boo has all these different Lego sets and once they are built she likes to keep them that way. We needed some type of shelving that would keep them organized, but we also needed a way to store all of her loose Legos. This shelving set from Michaels has 16 different sections and ended up being the perfect solution:

She can keep the Lego sets separate and pull them out as she’s playing with them:

The long top shelf is great for displaying some of the larger sets that might not fit in the 12″ x 12″ compartments:

We used to store Legos in plastic bins, put away in her closet, but the new narrow shelf is much more efficient. Not to mention it’s a very attractive way of displaying them out in the open. I ordered the 16-bay shelf straight from Michaels.com, on sale right now: The Recollections Craft Storage System.

(Important: if you have a young child be sure to secure the shelf to the wall to keep it from falling over should they attempt to climb it!)

We used fabric bins for some of the bottom shelves and they hold loose Lego pieces and all her assembly books. Her book sets fit into the other boxes:

Sometimes she plays with the Legos just as they are without taking them out:

But they are all easy to put away if she does end up scattering them around the room.

This part of her room looks so neat and colorful now! The best part is if she ever outgrows Legos or wants to focus on something else we can easily change the theme of the shelf to something else.

So are you inspired to organize your own space? Start the year off right! Michaels has tons of products and storage supplies that can be used to decorate and inspire creativity in any room of your house or office.

Michaels just launched a new line of storage and organization product called Cre8ted Spaces available in stores now and it has tons of different colors, bins and office supplies – with more than 300 new items in 4 coordinating colors, you have to check it out!

If you don’t know where to begin, you can always take a look at some of the fun storage projects on Michaels.com or the other 49 makers’ ideas on The Glue String for tips on designing, organizing and decorating their favorite places!

Stuffed Animal Storage

January 1, 2016 by Ashley Hackshaw

Happy New Year! Today is the first day of a new amazing year of creative projects with Michaels. January’s theme is organization…and the challenge was to organized a favorite space. We decided to tackle stuffed animal storage!

Boo loves her little stuffed animals, the only problem is they end up all over the place. I had to come up with a storage solution that kept them off the floor and (mostly) off the bed. I decided to do something similar to our snack storing solution we used back in the desert, the hanging of metal bins on the wall:

I love the result…especially that it’s a quick cleanup if you are a good shot from across the room:

They all look so cute peeking out don’t you think?

The zoo has finally been contained:

You can see the process I used here to hang the bins…when I used them in our pantry for snack organization:

The galvanized bins are from Michaels, usually found in the aisle with the unfinished wood projects and smaller galvanized metal buckets:

We tackled a few other areas of her room so stay tuned the next two days for more reveals! You can view all of the projects I’ve done for Michaels in the past by clicking here.

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