{Harper's Playroom} The Reveal

Happy Friday, ladies! My intention was to share Harper's playroom reveal yesterday but after coming down with a bad headache Wednesday night I just didn't get around to snapping any photos. But as soon as I arrived home yesterday from work, I got right on it. So without further adieu, here's Harper's playroom! 

I am so proud of this little space. It's everything I could have ever imagined it would be... cute, cozy, and colorful! I just hope Harper loves it as much as we do (:

Happy Weekend Friends!

{Harper's Playroom} Sneak Peek

As was promised last week, here's a little sneak peek of Harper's playroom! If you haven't followed me along this little journey, you can catch up on my little Harper's Playroom series by clicking the link here. We've made quite a bit of progress to this room this week and it's turning out to be even cuter than I had hoped. All we have left is to tackle a few diy projects for the room. I've got to make her teepee, hack her IKEA latt table, and hang her gallery wall! All of which makes me super giddy for the weekend! Check back next Thursday for what I hope will be a full room reveal (:

{Harper's Playroom} Artwork

Welcome back to my little series ladies. Harper's playroom is slowly but surely coming together. After a trip to IKEA and a few Etsy orders here and there, all of the items that I shared last week have been purchased. The last thing I need to do is to pick out the artwork for her space. My intention is to put a gallery wall above the couch. I want the little gallery wall to add some more pops of color. Below are some of the prints I've found via ETSY or Pinterest that have caught my attention. As you can tell, they are all pretty girly.  Out of the twelve prints below, I need to choose eight. The problem is I love them all so I'm having a hard time narrowing them down. So here's where you ladies come in. I need you to help me decide. So be sure to tell me your favorites in the comment section below! 

Check back next week to see which ones I chose and get a sneak peek of the room (; 

{Harper's Playroom} Color Scheme

Welcome back to my "Harper's Playroom" series. Last week I shared the conundrum I found myself in after discovering both Lay Baby Lay's playroom design as well as Pear Design Studio's play space. Both of them are ADORABLE! I loved them so much I knew I had to somewhat recreate their design's in Harper's room. The problem was deciding which one to go with. After much debate, I decided to leave it up to the husband. So which design did he choose? The girly one or the neutral. Well he picked... (drum roll please)... the girly one!

After much discussion and debate we decided that despite how much we loved the neutral design for future kids, the girly one was perfect for the child we have now. Harper is very much our little diva and a room full of pops of pink and yellow were just what she'd enjoy. With all of our major pieces being gender neutral, we figure if in the future, we add a little boy to our family, we'll swap out Lay Baby Lay's design for one more like Pear Design Studio's. Since we'll be using all gender neutral furniture the switch shouldn't be hard. We'll change the tan walls to gray and the pink pillows to blue. Easy peazy! 

Now that we have a color scheme in mind, below is my design board for Harper's space! I can't wait to see it all come together (: 

Thanks for stopping by today! Come back again next week to see some of the artwork I've chosen for her space. I may even need your help making the final decisions (: 

{Harper's Playroom} The Tale of Two Rooms

If you haven't caught the first two installments of my "Harper's Playroom" series taking place here on Thursdays, you can catch them here and here. Today I want to share my two all time favorite play spaces from the blogging community. These two rooms are the rooms I'm utterly obsessed with. Both designers did an amazing job and after seeing them I knew I had to pattern Harper's playroom after one or the other.. if not both. 

The first room I fell in love with was Lay Baby Lay's playroom that she designed for her daughter. The colors, the furniture, all the details... it was love at first sight. The room had most of the aspects I wanted to incorporate into Harper's playroom. It had the couch, teepee, craft area, and book nooks. The only spaces missing were the kitchen, market, and dressing area. But with a space this pretty... a girl could live without! 

The second playroom I fell in love with had everything I was looking for in a room. Pear Design Studio hit the nail right on the head with this adorable design. It had everything a playroom should have... an area for family to sit, cute storage, a place to play dress up, a craft corner, and even a reading nook. Despite that it didn't have a teepee for the reading nook as I had envisioned, the fabric poufs were an equally lovable replacement.

After seeing both of these rooms I knew I had to pattern Harper's room after one or the other. The problem was deciding which of the two it would be. On one hand, I loved the girliness the pops of pink and yellow had to offer from Lay Baby Lay's space. But on the other hand, I loved how neutral Pear Design Studio's space was. The blues, grays, and yellows would very well work for a girl as well as a boy. Knowing we'll be adding another little person to our family in the next year or so, the idea of leaving it neutral was a really good idea. Since I was in such a conundrum there was only one thing left to do... let my husband decide!

So which did Kevin choose? Check back next Wednesday (since next Thursday is Thanksgiving) and I'll tell you! (;

{Harper's Playroom} Pinspiration

When the decision was made to convert our bonus room (before pictures found here) into a playroom for Harper, I immediately did what all rational people do... I headed over to Pinterest in search of inspiration! Since I really didn't know what direction I intended to go with the room, I browsed various playrooms until I could get a good grasp of what I was looking for. After coming across hundreds, if not thousands, of different rooms, I finally came up with some ideas for the space I was hoping to create. Below are some of my favorite spaces and how I plan to incorporate them into Harper's playroom.

A Sitting Area

After coming across Lay Baby Lay's daughter's playroom, I knew without a doubt I wanted to include a couch in Harper's playroom. It would serve as a great place for us to hang out as a family and watch Disney movies, curl up with a good children's book, or just a place for us mama's to sit as we host play dates with our friends.

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A Teepee

Who doesn't love a teepee?! After seeing these cuties all over the internet there isn't a doubt in my mind that Harper needs one in her room. I want her to have a comfy spot she can crawl in with a good book or even take a nap in after a long day of playing. 

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Book Ledges

Speaking of curling up with a book, I love the idea of using Ikea's ribba ledges to display books. Harper absolutely loves books and to be able to display them for her enjoyment makes me giddy. I think it'll be so much fun to display books for the seasons. Too bad this is her Christmas present so I won't be able to display her 25 books of Christmas this year! Boo :( 

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A Craft Space

Even though Harper is just now getting interested in markers, crayons, etc. I want to go on and include a table where she can sit and color in the near future. I also love the idea of hanging a chalkboard on the wall for her to doodle on as well as adding a place to hang her artwork so that everyone can see it!

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A Play Kitchen

You might not remember that back in the summer Kevin and I picked up a Kidkraft retro kitchen for Harper for a steal. I randomly ran across a brand spanking new one on Craigslist and only ended up giving $75 for it. It was intended to be a Christmas gift for Harp but she saw it in the garage and so she got it much earlier that we'd planned. My plan is to move it upstairs to her playroom right before Christmas. Her kitchen area won't be in the closet like this one but I definitely love this little area.

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A Play Market

I absolutely adore this little children's market. Harper absolutely loves her play kitchen and all the things that go in it. If we have the space, I would love to create her a mini children's market complete with a chalkboard sign and a cash register (;

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A Dress Up Space

Harper is still too young for a dress up space but isn't this one just darling?! I definitely foresee us adding this little nook in the room as she gets older!

Well that's all the inspiration I have to share today! Check back next week for my two favorite playroom spaces and their color schemes! 

{Harper's Playroom} Before Pictures

Over the last few months I've mentioned a time or two that Kevin and I are planning on converting Kevin's "man cave" into a playroom for Harper. Our original plan was to convert this room as a present for Harper's first birthday but it just didn't happen despite our best intentions. At the time of Harper's birthday, we were in the process of pulling up all of our carpet upstairs and replacing it with hardwood. Since that little project took longer than expected and cost more than we'd planned, we knew that this project would have to be postponed until a later date when we had more time and more money. Fast forward to present time and we've decided now is the time to move forward with our plans. We've decided that for Harper's "big" Christmas item this year she's going to get her very own playroom. Let's hope she's as excited about it as I am!

With Christmas being less than two months away, the countdown to get this room complete has begun. I've already perused Pinterest for inspiration and literally have close to a hundred ideas pinned. We've come up with a new color scheme for the room, began a general layout of what we want where, and have started a shopping list of items we're going to need.

Just for some fun, I thought I'd share this room redo with you ladies over the next few weeks. My goal is to post tidbits on the room every Thursday. I'll be sharing my inspiration, room updates, and I'm sure I'll be getting your opinions on a few pieces I've yet to decide on. Here's hoping we'll get this project tackled on time! I've already got my eye set on a giant gold bow I plan to put on the door on Christmas morning :P

To give you an idea of what I'm working with... here's the before pictures. (sorry, they were taken before we put hardwoods down!)

Check back next Thursday for some of my favorite Pinterest inspirations (: