Is your little girl’s bedroom decor ready for an update? My daughter has been begging me to redecorate her room since the day we moved into our new house. It’s been one of those projects that I just kept putting off because there were so many other ones that needed to be done. But, my daughter recently celebrated her 10th birthday and I knew it was time to finally tackle our tween girl’s bedroom makeover!
I have teamed up with Cricut to show you how you can transform a boring and ordinary room into a personalized and extraordinary room any girl will love. You may already know how much I love my Cricut. It truly is my favorite craft tool. It is versatile, precise and allowsthe me to be as creative as I want. Like most of my projects this room makeover was fairly simple. I was able to complete it from start to finish in just 2 days.
An Extraordinary Transformation
I will be honest, these pictures just don’t do it justice! It turned out so pretty and is such a transformation from what it looked like before. It was really hard to get good pictures of this space with all the angles and terrible lighting.
My daughter and I started a Tween Girls Bedroom Pinterest board to to start collecting inspiration for her room. She had a pretty good idea of what colors she wanted. However, inspiration struck when I was working on a word art project using the new DecoArt paint colors. We both loved the color combination and decided to go with the gold, aqua, turquoise, coral and pink.
Add a Polka Dot Accent Wall
We had just recently painted her room a neutral cream, and I didn’t want to mess with repainting it because quite frankly I hate painting. I loved the idea of doing a gold polka dot accent wall. Using my Cricut made it both easy and inexpensive. I used 2 rolls of the gold adhesive foil and even had some left over. In the interest of time, I went with a random, confetti pattern rather than evenly spaced rows.
Create a Focus Wall
Now that we had a focal point for the room, it was time to add all of the little details for a fabulous room makeover. I absolutely love using vinyl when it comes to decorating. The ability to create and customize my own art to match the color scheme is a giant bonus. With the huge variety of vinyl available, you can match any color palette.
I created a custom gallery wall with picture frames I already had and vinyl. I simply painted the frames with my favorite DecoArt paint (cotton candy, sea mint, laguna and coral.) Then I picked out some of my favorite quotes and added them to the different frames. In one of the frames, I layered a striped sheet of metallic foil acetate and the gold adhesive foil to help tie in the gold polka dots on the other wall. This looked awesome next to my hand painted canvas word art.
It’s All in the Details
A chalk painted desk and dresser sits on the wall opposite her bed. However, they looked quite boring against the neutral wall. My solution: paint the drawers of the dresser in an ombre pattern with the coral and pink paint. I love how this turned out! I added new hardware and painted the mirror above her dresser to match. Finally, I cut “be.YOU.tiful” out of the gold vinyl and placed it in the top left corner of the mirror to remind my sweet girl that she is beautiful and to always be herself. Because the Cricut makes these little details possible, our tween girl’s bedroom makeover feels more complete.
We hung shelves above the desk so that she can display her trophies, artwork and craft supplies. I am sure my little bookworm will also fill in some of that empty space with her favorite books.
Personalized Reading Pillow
Speaking of books, I really wanted this room to have a personal touch for my daughter. She LOVES to read! Most nights she can be found huddling under her covers with a flashlight long after the lights have been turned out for bed. I saw this pillow on Pinterest, but it was $20 and I knew I could make my own personalized version of it for much less. Using the gold foil iron on and a light pink pillowcase from IKEA, I made my own version of the “Sleep Less, Read More” pillow. It is perfect for my daughter! She said she can’t wait to curl up on the bed with that pillow and a good book. And the best part: it cost me around $8 and matches her room.
The Finishing Touches
I used my Cricut for all kinds of projects in this room makeover, including custom tags to label the baskets in her side table, labels for the jars that hold her craft supplies on her shelf, and even a custom dry erase board for notes and reminders.
There are still a few things left to do to make it 100% complete, including deciding what to with the bed. I am not sure the black is the right color, but it was her baby crib and I am having a hard time getting rid of it because I feel all sentimental about her growing up. I am debating on whether or not to paint it or just put it in the attic and get a fabric tufted headboard. What do you think?
It’s amazing what a little bit of paint, furniture and handmade decorations will do to transform a space. This tween girls bedroom makeover was such a fun project to work on and both my daughter and I absolutely love the bright, fun colors.
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Such a great room. I love the gold polk-a-dots. I may have to copy you for my daughters room. Those colors are perfect for any teenage girl.
Mariah, this turned out AWESOME! Bet Aubrey is over the moon. Everything looks beautiful, but I especially love the focus wall and the ombré chest of drawers…such fanciful details! Ready to tackle Parker’s room?
She has to be delighted. So much fun going on here. I especially loved that desk ( pinned it) 😀 but I also swoon for that pillow and the polka dots in gold were genius. Visiting via Our Mini Linky Party. I am fairly new to blogging and like finding other posts about decor and design. So glad I stopped by.
Pamela
Thanks for stopping by Pamela, we love finding new bloggers to visit and check out too!
This just turned out SO darling! You are so creative my friend!!
You are so sweet my friend! Thanks for helping me pull it all together!
Really nice room. Will show my daughter for sure. Her room’s almost the same color!
Thank you Natalie! That is so fun that your daughter has the same colors, we love how cheerful they are!
Such a pretty room and fantastic decorations! I love how simple changes make a big difference! Visiting from Nifty Thrifty Sunday!
Demi
Thank you Demi, we both love how it turned out and I think it will be a room that can grow with her!
What a fun room!! Everything is absolutely perfect!
Where did you find the comforter. Your daughters room is adorable and love all the accent pieces you created as well. Thank You!
Hi Lissa, the comforter is from Target. Thanks, we both really love how her room makeover turned out!
when did you get this? we are looking for it and can’t find it!
I bought it last year at the beginning of the year (maybe in January) I see they have it online, but it looks like it may only be available in a twin https://www.target.com/p/textured-comforter-set-xhilaration-153/-/A-15124344. I did notice that they have another similar looking bedspread in the same color, it was called the Marley Ruffle Comforter Set. Good luck!
Beautiful!!
Where did you find the “Sleep Less, Read More” pillow – that would be perfect for my daughters room!
Hi Suzi, I made the pillow with my Cricut and iron on vinyl. If you have a cutting machine I can share the SVG file so you can easily recreate the pillow. Just email me at mariah(at)gigglesgalore(dot)net if you are interested in the file.
What a cute room! Great job! Did I miss where you said that you purchased the bed spread? We’re doing the same with our daughters room right now as she’s heading into middle school and is totally o we the princess phase. She saw your daughters bedspread and was in LOVE!
Hi Crissandra, thanks so much for stopping by and the sweet comment. I found the bed spread at Target and it has been wonderful, we really like it.
where did you get the ‘Sleep Less read more Pillow”?
Hi Jen, I made the pillow with my Cricut Explore machine and gold iron on vinyl. I bought the pillow cover from Ikea. I am happy to share the cut file if you have a cutting machine, just email me at mariah(at)gigglesgalore(dot)net
I love this! I am planning to redo my daughters room and I love the desk and will be using some of your ideas for inspiration! Thanks!❤️
Hi! I stumbled across this page on Pinterest and my daughter and I are in love with this room. Out of curiosity, what colors are in the paint palette that is pictured? My daughter would like to use this color scheme. Thanks!
Hi Lexi! I used DecoArt paint for most of the projects in that room and these are the names of the colors I used cotton candy, sea mint, laguna and coral. Hopefully that helps you, good luck decorating your daughter’s room!
Super cute! What did you use to make the garland hanging on the mirror?
Thanks Laura! I bought that tassel garland on the Oriental Trading website. It was perfect for this space.
Hi Mariah! I will be using your ideas for inspiration for my daughters room, this turned out so amazing! Can you tell me what size the gold foiled polkadots are that you used?
Thanks so much Mary! I made the polka dots 2″, I know you can also purchase them already cut that size as well if you don’t have a cutting machine to make them yourself.
Did you make the pom Poms from the Cricut machine as well? What about the fabric banner by the mirror? My twins have this exact bedding but we have a lot of purple accent pillows so I’m trying to figure out how to put it all together. I also just got a Cricut machine for Christmas so I’m hoping that I can put it to some good use!
Hi Christine, no the pom poms and banner by the mirror are from Oriental Trading.
This is so adorable! What font(s) did you use for the “follow that dream” quote?!? It’s perfect!
Thanks Amanda, my daughter still loves it! I actually bought that vinyl quote at Hobby Lobby, I picked it up on clearance and couldn’t pass up the good deal.
Love this! Where did you get the bedding from?
Thanks so much Lyndsey, I picked up the bedding at Target. I’m not sure they still carry it, but here is something similar that might work http://amzn.to/2DzbIdu (aff)
This room is beautiful! Love all the personal touches. I have a question. Were you able to get everything in the room done with the 2 rolls of gold foil, or just the polka dot decals?
Thanks!
I used 2 rolls for the gold polka dots (I had quite a lot of extra polka dots in the end) and 1 roll for everything else.
I have a silhouette cameo which can do similar things to the cricut I was wondering what fonts you used for “follow that dream” if you cut that out of vinyl and where did you find the fonts? You can email me your response if you like. I’m redoing my daughters room and love this!!
Hi Shannon, I actually already had that vinyl quote that I had purchased from Hobby Lobby so I didn’t make that one with my Cricut.
Awesome! I found something similar. What about the board sign for you are capable of amazing things? Did u get a blank at hobby lobby and paint and vinyl it? If u did a vinyl stencil where did u get the font?
I love this! What a change of the room! It’s adorable! Where did you get the wall shelves??
Thank you so much Ciara! I bought the wall shelves at IKEA.
The room is adorable. How did you paint the dresser drawers? My daughter has an all white dresser and desk. The color on the drawers looks great and adds that little extra.
Thanks so much Dana! I used DecoArt Paint in a similar color pallet and took the drawers out and painted each of those in a different shade to create the ombre look.
Ah! This room is such an inspiration for my daughters room! Beautifully done!
Hey!! Can you tell me where you found your floating white shelves above the desk please? Thanks!!
Hi Meghan, I purchased those shelves from IKEA.
Such a beautiful makeover! The one million dollar question for me, where did you put the toys, especially the dolls van that was pictured in the before photos? We are getting one soon but wondering where to find the right spot in the bedroom. Thanks!
Thank you Alix! We ended up redoing her closet as well and built shelving in there and made it more functional for storing things. The doll van and her dolls were kept in there, everything had a cubby and it’s own special spot to keep it organized. She’s outgrown the dolls now, but the closet is still a functional space where she can store things, as well as accommodate her growing wardrobe.
I love all the colors, where did you find the puffs on the right side of the bed?
Thank you! Those are from Hobby Lobby in the girl’s home decor section.