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    Updated: Apr 5, 2022 by Kris Jarrett

    Modern Coastal Bedroom Makeover Reveal!

    Today is One Room Challenge reveal day and I’m so excited to show you guys my daughter’s newly made-over bedroom! (A FULL SOURCE LIST for the space is included at the end of the post)

    Modern coastal bedroom makeover with quatrefoil chandelier, grasscloth wallpaper, wood and chrome nightstand, and blue and white bedding. Beautiful!

    Let’s quickly jump back in time to where things started – this is what the room looked like when we moved in two years ago:

    Before Bedroom Makeover

    and this was her room right before the makeover – we hadn’t done a thing to the space other than moving in her furniture and accessories from our old house:

    Before pic of blank wall over bed

    Our makeover mission? To give the room a more grown-up feel using my daughter’s favorite color combination of blue and white while mixing in some fun touches that I knew she’d love (note: post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}). The jumping off point for the entire room was this gorgeous handblocked duvet and pillows from Kalyana Textiles. I love how the duvet reverses to a different pattern on the opposite site so we can flip it over for a whole new look. And shouldn’t I get some kind of award for managing to only have four decorative pillows on her bed? It’s definitely a little more sparse than my usual bedroom-pillow-overkill but my daughter requested that I dial the number of pillows on her bed back a few notches. Wish granted.

    Beautiful handblocked bedding from Kalyana Textiles

    Above the bed are a pair of Taylor Swift song lyric art prints from {this Etsy shop} hung in simple wood frames. I’m always paranoid about hanging things over the bed in kids’ rooms so I mounted the prints to foam board cut to the size of the frame and put them in the frames without any glass:

    Taylor Swift song prints - so perfect for a teen bedroom!

    And did you notice the beautiful blue textural goodness on the walls? I used {this grasscloth wallpaper} and wow, did it ever make a night and day difference in this space! I had gone back and forth on using grasscloth vs. painting since grasscloth is obviously the more expensive of the two options but I’m so glad I stuck with the grasscloth – it was worth every penny!

    Blue grasscloth wallpaper from Walls Republic

    My wallpaper escapades are long enough for a post all their own but let’s just say that it proved a bit trickier to hang grasscloth than I expected. I was getting the job done but was slower than slower and was gratefully bailed out by the kindest and most talented of wallpaperers (whose name & number I’m happy to pass on to any of you who live in the CT area!).

    At the side of my daughter’s bed is a single nightstand with a fillable lamp that I decided to leave unfilled until she decides what she wants to do with it. I passed on all of the awesome ideas that you guys gave me like using marbles, blue & white pottery shards, sand & seashells, or photos and other momentos. It will be fun to see what she ends up going with!

    Wood and metal nightstand and fillable glass lamp

    Taking center stage in the room is a beautiful new brass chandelier (available {here}). Instead of regular candelabra bulbs, I used small round ones to give it a more modern, chic look:

    Beautiful gold arabesque chandelier - looks so cute in this bedroom!

    Looking across the room, you’ll see that her closet doors got a much needed upgrade:

    Flat closet doors framed out with panel molding including two cork boards - love for a kid's room!

    Do you remember what they looked like before? Flat and yellowed with teeny tiny cabinet knobs for door handles and rusty hinges:

    Before of closet doors

    I added wood panel molding (I finally broke down and bought a miter saw to whip this little project out!) with corkboard inserted into the top two panels – a post with the DIY how-to for these closet doors can be found {here}. I’m sure that within the week, these boards will be filled with pictures, notes, and all sorts of other fun stuff:

    Love this upgrade of flat closet doors! Panel molding was added to both doors, including framed corkboards! So fun for a kid's room!

    We kept the same IKEA desk in the room that we had before but got a new, more comfortable chair and a desk lamp:

    Inexpensive IKEA desk and slipcovered chair and Target lamp - perfect for a kid's room!

    The new chair is a slipcovered IKEA chair that I had local monogrammer add my daughter’s initials to – so inexpensive for something that’s now a custom piece!

    Monogram added to back of IKEA Henriksdal slipcovered chair

    Eventually I’ll hang some shelving over her desk for her sports trophies and medals but I didn’t want to put any holes in the grasscloth until I was 100% sure of my design. I also plan to find some art to hang on the wall in this little niche where you enter her room:

    Board and batten molding and grasscloth wallpaper

    Oh, and did you notice my DIY board & batten? The chair rail and baseboard were already there so all that I had to do was add some lattice strips and paint it up (tutorial to come!).

    At this point you may be wondering where the heck all of my daughter’s stuff is – the room looks too clean, right? Well, that door to the right of her bed leads to a huge second closet with shelving galore for storing stuffed animals, games, etc. Also, her books and several other bits of stuff normally sit on the shelves of her hutch which I have styled up ever so awesomely for you guys:

    Dresser before

    Hmm…maybe not my best work? This last little part of her room is obviously still a work in progress – I’m not loving this chest/hutch combo in this room so I’m debating between painting it or getting rid of it – more to come on that….

    That wraps up my One Room Challenge Makeover! Did I tell you guys that this whole “reveal” was a big surprise for my daughter? I kicked her out of her room a few weeks ago and she shacked up in the guest room while all of the DIYing was getting done in here. Just yesterday she saw it for the big reveal and was so, so happy with her new space (which of course made me so, so happy too!).

    Reveal of modern coastal teen bedroom

    Thanks so much for stopping by! If there’s anything in the room that you were eyeing, I’ve included a source list below with the deets on where everything came from. Also be sure to check out the other room reveals! The twenty main participants revealed their rooms yesterday (so many good ones!!) – you’ll find links to those {here} – and you can find links to all of the linking participants {here}.

    XO,KJ Signature

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    Duvet & Pillows – Nisha Duvet Cover and Dhara Pillow Covers c/0 Kalyana Textiles

    Duvet Insert – Natural Comfort Down Alternative in Oversized Queen

    Euro Shams – custom made but {these gorgeous pillow covers} would work beautifully 

    Bedskirt & Headboard – have had for years but {this bedskirt} looks identical and {this headboard} and {this headboard} are similar

    Grasscloth Wallpaper – {this one} in Powder Blue

    Art Prints – Taylor Swift Song Lyric Art Prints (mine are 20 x 30) | Frames were reused from chalkboard prints I bought at Hobby Lobby but {these frames} look very similar

    Chandelier – available {here}

    Lamp – no longer available but {this fillable table lamp} is similar

    Nightstand – no longer available

    Wire Basket – HomeGoods ({this one} is similar)

    Desk – IKEA’s MICKE desk in white

    Desk chair – IKEA’s HENRIKSDAL chair and HENRIKSDAL slipcover

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