Little girl room

My girl's room is the smallest one in the house (maybe 10' by 9') but also my favorite with beautiful light and nice windows. I like the challenge of making it great for her to play in and good for us all to look at.

When we switched the girl to this room the key purchase was her bed -- a captain's bed with 4 drawers and 2 shelves. All her clothes are in the drawers (with space to spare) and books and toys are on the shelves (just visible at the head of the bed). We were trying to maxmize floor space and it's worked out great.

The girl has a decent closet with a hanging rod for her dresses and shelves above for toys but we still needed visible storage. We revamped the hanging bookcase at the foot of the bed by adding a tackable surface and the pegs. And built a ton of shelves with something like 14 pegs total to hang bags, medals, toys and even a crib for her baby doll (OK, it's a plastic basket I bought at the hardware store -- you can see it hanging above the tent at the foot of her bed -- but it works great).

Speaking of the tent, this is where we get into enhancing play space. The door to the attic is at the foot of the bed so you can't put anything permanent there. I took fabric & 3 tension rods and made the play tent, which just today had 2 kids and 2 adults crammed in there to eat brownies. When we need to get to the attic we can just pull the rods out.

For pretty things, I cross-stitched a monogram on the wool blanket and did chicken-scratch embroidery on the curtains. The chicken scratch took *forever* but it is really pretty. . .