Girl's Playhouse / Bedroom Makeover

Here's how this young girl's bedroom makeover is completed:

• First, the designers paint the walls to give a hint of bright blue skies.
  
• They take an ordinary bunk bed and build a playhouse around it by enclosing the existing bed frame with tongue-and-groove paneling to create the look of a house with clapboard siding. The pieces fit together without the use of nails or glue. A headboard and footboard are constructed to look like peaked roofs on both ends of the top bunk. They're made of pine boards and hardwood scraps cut to resemble shingles. Shelves inside the peaks provide a place for books and a reading lamp. Details include a simple flower box made of pine boards and decorated with silk flowers, a cutout window framed with curtains and shutters, gingerbread molding and a toy corral made of garden edging. To access the loft bed, they add four steps with a handrail and spindles. They cut two yellow bath mats in half and staple them to the steps for softness. Pink plastic foam insulation is used to cover the unfinished walls inside the structure. It also creates a colorful wall where the young girl can tack up her artwork.
  
• A yellow and white foldout polka-dot foam chair is placed in one corner; if needed, it can easily be converted into a sleeping mattress.
  
• The window area opposite the bed is transformed to resemble the front porch of a neighboring home. More tongue-and-groove paneling and trim is attached above and below the windows in two shades of purple. To add to the charm, window grids are made from simple lattice molding. The pieces are cut to size, hot-glued together and inserted into the window frames. Scalloped valances are made from 10-foot pine board. Rustic shutters are created from 1x4 strips of wood nailed together and painted green. Window boxes are also painted green and filled with silk flowers. The corner is finished with a white rocker and garage-sale table, refurbished with a wood top and white paint.
  
• The closet area receives the same tongue-and-groove paneled look, this time in bright pink. The dark bi-fold closet doors are updated to fit within the village theme with a new coat of paint and "windows" made of vellum paper and screen molding.
  
• The desk is moved into the closet for a reading nook; the desk light serves as a nightlight.
  
• A picket fence adorned with silk sunflowers is set next to the closet.
  
• The homeowner's dark chest of drawers is painted a soft green and antiqued with glaze to resemble an outdoor potting table.
  
• Accessories include a topiary lamp made of silk flowers and a terra-cotta pot, a birdhouse, ficus tree, watering can and garage-sale flower pots.