Parker's Room

We were excited to finish Parker's bedroom last week. Warning - this is not your typical pink and purple girly girl room. :) The entire room was designed around the below piece of art that a friend painted so the main colors are green and orange. We saw this piece at an art gallery that she held last Fall and we knew that we had to have it. Our friend said that as she was painting this piece that she envisioned it going in a child's room. She was right!

(Pardon the unkept changing table, but this is a real bedroom and that's a daily occurrence.) Greg picked the paint color for the bottom of the room and it was a great match to the green in the painting. Thankfully, Parker's new room had a chair rail because this color would have been too much for an entire room. It's bold and it's bright, and we love it!

Once the room was coming together, we remembered that we had a painting that my great grandma (Parker's great great grandma) painted 43 years ago and that it would look pretty good in her room as well. Below is that painting. It's signed by my great grandma and it was painted in January of 1969. We took off the original frame, that was gold, and spray painted it black to match the furniture in the room.

While designing the girl's playroom, we were inspired to throw something vintage into each room in the house. So, in Parker's room, we found the following items. The first picture is two items that I found very cheap on eBay and then framed them with frames that we had around the house. The top one is an old ad for Parker's Tonic (cough medicine) and the bottom one is the top of a pencil case with the brand name Parker. The second picture is a sign that my late grandparents had on their farm in Krebs, OK. Parker is named after these grandparents so we were grateful that my mom and dad still had this sign and that they gave it to us to hang in her room.

The next picture is Parker's piggy bank (all three girls have the same piggy bank but in different colors) and lamp that are on top of her dresser. We purchased both of these items to match the tree painting that started the whole design. Between the piggy bank and the lamp is a monopoly mug with Park Place on it. This was also at my grandparents house back in the day, and it brings back good memories.

The last picture was a Christmas present from Aunt Shelley and Cousin Ashleigh. Every little girl needs her name framed so this was another great addition to the room.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this room whether is was from a painting 43 years ago or from an item recently given to us! We are blessed to have been able to put all of these pieces together to make the perfect room for Parker to grow up in ... at least until she decides to decorate it herself!

Here is our beatiful girl ... Miss P!