Fortunately for the baby brother who arrives just after the finishing touches are made to the room, the eight-year old likes blue more than she likes pink, so Room Fu’s design plan wraps a kid-friendly blue around the tops of the walls and the ceiling. The bottoms of the walls stay white but wide vertical stripes in pearlescent white give them a soft shimmer. The real transformation happens on the floor though—a soft green and white diagonal checkerboard pattern and pale blue and yellow border are painted right on the wood floors. Distressing the paint and adding a couple coats of polyurethane ensure that the kids can roller-skate through the room if they want and not hurt anything. A headboard is created by mounting icy green mother-of-pearl flower-shaped dining chargers right to the wall above the bed.

The rest of Room Fu’s design plan calls for a ton of fun details, like huge blue blooms on the window shades made from photographic-print shower curtains and oval paper lanterns trimmed with feather boas.

Silver swirls are painted on the drawer fronts of her new furniture by the eight-year old herself.

Baby soft bedding is made with love by the kids’ grandmother.

The outcome is a room a “tween” can enjoy for years and is also the perfect baby nursery.

Room Fu's design guru thanks her young client for pitching in on creative projects and for being such an awesome photo assistant!

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