DIY Little Girl Room Refresh

Hello again! If you're new here, we sold our completely redone home last year and bought my grandparent's home. We have been slowly updating it to make it feel like our home! My daughter's room was the first room I painted in the new house to 'make this house pretty' as she likes to say.

Here is what her room looked like before we moved in. The carpet was new, but it just didn't look like a little girl's room!

We were trying to match the dusty pink color in her rug for the paint color. We sampled 3 different paint colors, but they just looked so different on each wall, so we had a hard time deciding. We ended up going with the pinkest one in the first picture, which is called Behr Vintage Tea Rose. I also painted the ceiling with a flat white ceiling paint to freshen it up.

We added her light fixture from our old house and some wrap around curtain rods for blackout curtains to finish it off.

Our whole house has these bifold doors on the closets with ivory plastic knobs and my husband comments how he hates them every time he touches a closet, so I decided to change them after we were finished getting her room put back together.

I ordered 10" pulls to replace the old plastic knobs. When I took the old knobs off, the paint and/or plastic wouldn't come off the wooden door, so I used lemon oil on a baby wipe to clean the paint left over off the door.

I also added some stain with a small paint brush to the area to try to blend the outer circle a little better. I think it worked okay!

To install the new pulls, I ordered this jig (that my husband said was unnecessary after I had already drilled all the holes) to help me to feel more confident before drilling additional holes into all of our closet doors. I decided to use the existing hole in the closet doors for the bottom of the handles, so I only needed to drill a new hole 10" above the existing holes. I set the jig up to the right size for the pull and depth and it made the process pretty quick!