Decorating Before and After - An Organized Playroom

We recently redecorated our playroom/office. This room used to be the formal dining room but like most families, we found we really didn't need one. As a dining room, it was painted red with heavy formal drapery. At first, we just moved in the toys and desk into the room but after all the other work we had done on the first floor, we decided this room needed a facelift too.

So with a can of paint, a little bit of fabric, a new light fixture and some new artwork, we transformed our tired playroom into something cute and modern.

We replaced the outdated window treatments with simple inverted pleated drapery made from indoor/outdoor fabric found on Online Fabric Store for less than $10 yard. If you would like to learn how to make inverted pleats, click here for my complete tutorial.

Creating the "Live . Laugh . Love" was very easy. I just printed out the words using a font that I liked and then transferred the words to the wall. After that, I used a magic marker to fill in the words.