Today I am super excited to share a tour of the newest completed room in our home, our kid-friendly guest room! Due to the fact that we moved seven hours away from our family and some of our closest friends this past year, it was a HUGE priority for us to create guest room(s) that are family friendly. Most of our siblings and friends have young children, so our goal was to create a set up that would accommodate families comfortably. And – holy cow – have we USED these rooms. We’ve had guests 2-3 times per month since January. We’ve often joked that we’re running a bed and breakfast over here, and we’re so grateful to invite our family and friends to come stay, often times impromptu, on a regular basis.
The Palm Springs theme came to me randomly, and I couldn’t get it out of my brain. I am OBSESSED with kid-versions of grown-up things (like outfits that look like tiny adults, or tiny kids’ kitchen sets or little kid-size cars). So ultimately it seemed appropriate to create a kiddo version of my favorite place – Palm Springs, California. So I covered pages and pages of my journal with random ideas and things about Palm Springs that I wanted to give a “nod” to… see if you can spot them all!
In this basket, I started a fun collection of mid-century and Palm Springs inspired dress up things! It was a HUGE hit with Penelope as you will see below. 🙂
Collecting cute things like this is so much fun, and honestly, I have a lot of crazy clothes from my own collection that I just threw in there for them to play with.
The bunk beds were the starting point for my design. I knew I wanted to find beds where the bottom bunk was a full size (so adults could comfortably stay in this room too when needed). I found this bunk bed frame for a pretty awesome price. We decided to paint it bubble gum pink. Then the twin and full mattresses we have are from Casper, a company I was introduced to when they donated a (very comfortable) mattress to our Habitat For Humanity house last year. This setup has been incredibly functional!
Just got this pillow in the mail from Joy. So sweet!
There it is – our completed space!!!! Ready for some tiny tourists to come visit… oh wait, I see one now!
This pose was her idea, and I think she nailed it!
SOURCES: Bunk Bed/Amazon, Mattress/Casper, Brass Light Fixture/Sazerac Stitches, Curtains/Anthropologie, Rug/Crate & Kids, House Print/Jeff Mindell via Society6, Hanging Chair/Twos Company, Cactus Plush/Sunday In Color, Pink Throw/Turkish T, Wood Toy Camera/Perfectly Smitten, Light Up Sign/Perfectly Smitten, Pastel Wood Rainbow/Amazon, Pink Shaggy Pillows/Urban Outfitters (similar), Eye Mirror/Urban Outfitters, Plush Swan/Crate & Kids, Mini Wooden Palm Springs House/McKean Studio, Tufted Pillow/Urban Outfitters, Neon Cactus Light/Shop Harvey’s, Wall Hanging/DeMacAndCo.
DIY LINKS: Gold Foil Cactus Wallpaper, Succulent Window Boxes, Felt Cactus Plush.
Thanks so much for following along on my second room tour! You can see my first room tour here, our “before” video here and all our house progress updates right here. If you have any questions, ask me in the comments!! xx- Elsie
Credits//Author and Photography: Elsie Larson. Photos edited with A Beautiful Mess actions.
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So, so cute!! Penelope is one lucky little houseguest! 🙂
This room is so much fun! http://www.hannamarielei.com
love those curtains! where are they from??
I wish I could live here and I am very much a grown up!!
Curtains please ?
THE BEST ever!!!!
Such a fun room! I love this so much!
Nicole | http://inthelifeofnm.blogspot.ca
They’re from Anthroplogie!
xx- Elsie
Anthroplogie.
xx- Elsie
Wow. Serious room envy. I would take it now, as an adult!!!! Great job!
This is such a cute room, I am completely inspired by it. My youngest daughter is 20 months and one of her first words was “cactus” as both my mom and I love and collect cactus (my mom’s collection is amazing!). My daughter took over my oldest’s room when she was born so this is a great inspiration for her big girl room. Thanks for sharing!
Where is the wall hanging from? Beautiful room!
Love the rug!
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This is adorable, Els!
Carrie
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I loooovee this! It’s the cutest kid’s room ever.
This is such a fun and colorful room! Perfect for kids =o)
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Utterly adorable room. Love all of it, lucky houseguests. And lucky you for getting to decorate a kids room, nothing is more fun.
OMG!!!! Love it!!!!!!
I can’t even handle how amazing this room is. Penelope is unstoppable. I showed her Christmas video to my four year old niece, she loved it 🙂 This room is what dreams are made of and is so inspiring me to change up my guest room plan.
Oops! I knew I would forget something!
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xx- Elsie
SO CUTE!!
xx- Elsie
Thanks so much Carrie!!
xx- Elsie
Love the room!!! Did i miss where the ceiling light is from?
The cactus details are simply wonderful, especially the wallpaper and the neon lamp!
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Oh dear what a joy! Am I the only adult who wants a kid’s room now? LOL. This place is absolutely gorgeous. Great job on this one. Now, can I come over your ‘bread and breakfast’? 🙂
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Thanks for your online-invitation “fly with me” – to Palm Springs!
I am more than impressed by this marvellous room and perfect pics. I do like the theme of the room (how outstanding!): the wall paper in connection with the lamp, the swan an the carpet, bed and hanging basket and all the beautiful details that are so brilliantly decorated. Wow!
I have never seen such an inspiring post about how to furnish a kids room. Your little “tourist” must be a very happy girl!
Send you my best & admiring regards from Germany,
Katja from “Alles im Wunderland”
Sooo cute and beautiful at the same time! I want to have a room like that for my future kids.
LOVE from Berlin,
Tatjana from http://sectionofstyle.com/
It´s such a lovely room. Wonderful and harmonic colours and I like the cactus pattern.
It is definitely super cute, it all fits so well together! The photoshoot is the cutest. The only thing I wonder: do some of your friends also have boys?
Oh my is that wood toy camera the cutest!
I LOVE this!!!
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This is the cutest little girls room! Heck I want my own room to look like this 🙂
-Leah Pelly
I used your cactus sharpie “wallpaper” idea in my entry way closet for have them peeking out of my coats and love it. Great room and always great ideas.
Wow! Nice and fantastic … “Come fly with me” I like that. Why I grow up…. 🙁
It looks lovely! And that rug has stolen my heart!
xx,
E.
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Sweet!
This is lovely!
x
can you share the colour/brand of paint you used for the bunk bed? it’s perfect.
Beautiful and fun! This is something that any kid would love, I think.
Such a fun room! Love the candy colors xo
This room is so cute I could die. I would do MY room like this!!
Officially the cutest kid’s bedroom
Emmy Jake NYC
This is gorgeous!!! It makes me wish I had a spare room to turn into a proper guest room too – hopefully one day – and in the meantime I think I’ll just start dreaming up ideas for how to decorate it 🙂
Super random question Elsie… how do you keep your vintage telephone clean?! I got one at a flea market but it looks really old and dirty 🙁 any suggestions?
Thanks!
ps. loved the room!
This was such a fun post and a fun design! I love the vibe of this room and how all the quirky little things come together to really bring you a solid feel for the room. The colors are so magical too! And, your niece is just too darn adorable, seems like she really loves this space too!
xo. holly erinn
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Where is the pendant light from?
I love this so much I can’t handle it. Very cool.
I think I need some of those cactus pillows for myself!
Hello Elsie,
I like the creativity. I think kids like it most. Nice Ides!
Fantastic blog with excellent information and ideas, I would like to share my experience with trying to find child safe blinds that aren’t just the basic designs. I was thrilled to find a company that not only offered a large range of designs and colours for child safe blinds but also offer a custom photo blind, where you can choose from a stock image or upload your own picture to have printed on a made to measure roller blind, vertical blind, pleated blind and even a venetian blind! all child safe…. go wild!!
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Such a unique style of decor for a children’s room. Thanks for sharing.
How did you hang the chair? Was it fairly easy?
Adorbs!!! What about the bedding?? LOVE the texture. Where is it from??
This room is precious! Where is the bunk bed from? I am in the market for my littles.
I love this room so much <3 Any advice on painting this bunk bed? Did y'all prime it first??
What a fun room! Love the theme, and all the tiny little accent pieces that fit so perfectly! That cactus stencil is a great idea. Something I never would have thought to do on my own, but is definitely intriguing.
Can I ask how the bunk bed has held up? J/w since mine would be for 2 little girls.
What color is the bunk? Thank you!!
LOVE the pink bunks! Would you please share the brand and color of the paint? Thank you!
Can you please share the color and brand of the pink paint for the bed ? Thank you
Omg sooo stinking cute and creative!!!! Amazing job!!! Where is that cute swing from?