it took me a year and half to get it done…not the actual work but just DOING it.
and it's not as grand as what was in my mind.
but it's done.
and the girls LOVE it.
they got in the first night and talby said "it's like i'm a princess."
and annie shouted "and I'M a PR-WINCESS too!"
they can close it up when they want to…for princess privacy. 
they share a bed now and it's just sitting on the floor.
it's easier to jump on the bed that way. 
their bassinet from when they were babies is tucked in the corner
and the 2 chairs hold up the sides of the tent.
they put their dolls in there for night too.
the 4 door white cabinet was built-in to our basement in our IL house.
it was yellow with 70's flower decals on the doors…but also had vintage green glass knobs.
we took it out when we gutted that basement.
it holds annie's clothes now. 
talby's dresser was from a thrift shop when lauren was a baby.
the shelves on top i bought at canton days flea market 3 years ago.
i painted both of them.
their curtains are just white bed sheets with black out fabric as a liner…works great.
*painting made by talby 2 years ago. *heart duvet covers from ikea.
*name print from penny people. *tutu from the thrift shop. :)
*polka dot sheets from walmart. *deer print mounted on blue & orange paper from k.bartinski.
to make the tent:
i wrapped 3 hula hoops with duct tape….yes…..to make it strong enough not to bend.
then sewed the blankets and sheets around it.
we strung a rope through the top sections to hang it…from a big heavy duty hook in the ceiling.
i bet that makes no sense…but there was no pattern…i made it up as i went along.
that is a lot of pink isn't it?
sandra - Great job.
Its very beautiful.
Anna Marie - Where did you get your blackout material? Is it cotton type fabric or is it like vinyl/rubbery stuff? I really need your help on this one…please 😀
Anne Marie - I went to Target and bought those sheets. Then I came home from college and my mom had bought them for my bed at home. Guess she knows me. (:
Rachael Ensom - LOVE LOVE LOVE it! This makes me want to have a girl just to decorate her room!!!
Lin - For awhile, I’ve been collecting pictures that inspire me. Sometimes it’s just pictures that I like, but usually it’s pictures of things I want to try – decorating ideas etc. Reading your blog over the last few months, I realized at least three of my inspiraion photos are from your blog. Reading this post, I recognized a picture I found months ago is of your daughter’s room. This pink color is so sweet. I love the flower garland, now I have to steal your tent idea for my daughter’s room. She would love it. Thanks for blogging. I really enjoy reading it. Good Luck on the Africa trip.
philippines homes - WOW! Great bedroom with excellent features. Each photo was so beautiful in a wonderful and unique way.
Deirdre G
gina - LOVE it! And I love all of the bright and happy colors and things that fill their room. 🙂
Heather Giustino - What a beautiful room they have!!
Jaime Melcher - Absolutely precious! That is the most sugar-coated room I’ve ever seen… It’s better than the one from “The Holiday!”
Trina - Meg.. you are truly the coolest! I have been loving that tent forevah! I’m so inspired but you always inspire me! I can’t remember if I commented on Africa yet either but how awesome. I got to go before I was married and it was scary and exciting and amazing. I’ll be praying for you! Psalm 91 is a great chapter to pray for protection etc. etc. one of my favs. I know the trip will change your life!
xx Trina
ps- I paid hommage to your tent on my site today!
Cathy - It looks great! I loveeeee pink! 🙂
kristin - oh, i love this.
it is amazing.
i would have one for my bed, but jerry thinks it’s weird.
maybe someday.
thanks again for yesterday. : )
Donna - I love that – I want one for my room!! Well, maybe for my craft/office…LOL!!
Diana - Yes… that is a LOT of pink. LOL! But it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. You really are so creative, Meg… you did a GREAT job. That princess tent is AWESOME! What a FANTASTIC place for two lovely princesses!
Judging by a lot of the comments… you could easily add another side job decorating and creating for folks! Hehe 😀
Amy - What color is the pink in their room? My little girl just asked tonight to have pink walls in her new bedroom when we move. 🙂
Christina - That is totally amazing. Mostly because you did it, and what love you have shown them! So precious. I love everything about that room! I long to give my kids that kind of fun space, but don’t know where to start. It’s a good thing you’re not nearby, because I would have to make you help me! 🙂
Amanda Mc - What a beautiful “pw-incess” bed! Thanks for posting this. I want to make one for my daughter using mosquito netting when she outgrows her baby bed. It will be a win-win. She’ll think it’s so princess-y and fun, and I’ll know she’s protected from malaria (we live in Asia). Meg, YOU are beautiful and inspirational 🙂
Kristy - awh, its just perfect. because of you i watched the holiday. now, one of my most favorite movies for sure. love their room. i eyes stopped when i saw how dreamy the window was. yep, just the window was all i needed. the tent is awesome. love it, and everything else in the room too. just a great girlie space :O)
Arielle - This is AMAZING. That scene from the Holiday is one of my favorites ever- what a dream com true! Great work!
Audrey - Beautiful! Just what a little girls bedroom should be!
Heather - SO beautiful. Did you make the green butterfly? It’s amazing!
pam - aWesoMe!!!! xo
Kelly O. - meg! that turned out fabulously!
very Holiday!
Kelsey - the tent is so very magical!! what lucky girls you have = )
Foy (Garden Cook Write Repeat) - The dark pink velvety color in the inside back really makes this tent. It’s so rich and royal looking.
Jen - What a wonderful place for make-believe, day-dreaming and play-time!
Amanda Garrett - ALL that pink, so pretty! This post made me smile.
Tracy - Awesome as always, Meg! You are one talented lady my friend! Big hugs! :o)
Rebekah - Looks like the “pink of perfection” to me. Seriously. So, so, SO adorable. This is definitely going in my inspiration file. 🙂
Heather @ Cookie Mondays - it turned out great. this has been on my list for a while too now that chloe & camden share a bed and are OBSESSED with tents.
Cori - I love the butterfly too. Your windows are so big. What a great home.
ellen - I love this. Love that the room is pink, pink, pink. And I know that my little sassy sue would live in that tent. For days on end.
Courtney Walsh - Perfect little girls’ room. My favorites are the tutus and Talby’s art! 🙂 Super cute stuff going on there!!
PS. Do you spray paint the furniture or use a brush?
Melissa - Great job – perfect little girls room! I love the tent.
Ana - Very pretty room! Where can you get the gerbera daisies? Thanks!
Katie - I LOVE it! Such a great mom!
Kim - What a fabulous room! I want to move in myself. I love the butterfly picture, I am sure you made it yourself. I’d love to make one for my daughter’s room, any tips. Thanks Kim
Christy - So cute! I love it!
Traci - that is THE perfect little girls room. i want one!!!
Londen - Perfect!!
tara pollard pakosta - I LOVE IT!
My 10 year old was just asking me to get one
for her room last month! Now, you make one
and it is making me want to try! but I am
not a sewer at ALL!!! I LOVE LOVE OVE IT!
tara
Krista - Cute that your girlies share a bed, they must love each other so much. I wish my daughters got along so well! Love your blog for inspiration! CUTE CUTE CUTE!
the wild raspberry - it reminds me of The Holiday….what a special place to hang out and be a princess.
Sarah @ Clover Lane - It’s not as grand as what you had in mind? It’s grander than anything I’ve ever had in MY mind! It’s look beautiful…and totally YOU!
Dawn - I love all of that pink – it is completely Pinkalicious! 🙂
Meredith - Beautiful Meg! This is a picture of pink perfection. Imagine the memories that this room will hold for your beautiful girls when they’re older….a room to nurture their imaginations and their dreams…Meredy xo.
Heidi Jo the Artist - Love ALL the pink! The room looks fabulous and I love how you made the tent! I never would have guessed it was made with hula hoops. I might just have to make one in my son’s room, no pink for him though. 😉 A redo is scheduled for his room soon, I’m sooooo excited! Thanks for sharing Meg!
Angela - You know it would be cute as a circus tent or camo fabric for boys. Sorry, I’ve only got boys and just kept thinking about this tent! lol
Karen Gerstenberger - Love it. I wanted to do something like this for Katie. I was planning to re-do her room with her, before she got sick. It’s wonderful to see your version of the hula-hoop canopy, making your girls happy. Thank you for sharing.
Dianne Avery - I would have LOVED this when I was a little girl. And this makes me want to make something like this for my little girl. Well done.
Jeannine - That room is SO gorgeous!
And for the record, you can NEVER have too much pink =)
Lyndee - what a fun room!! 🙂
Kacey - Oh my gosh – it’s simply MAGICAL! It’s the most wonderfully creative, fairy-tale room I could imagine! You are so talented. (And clearly you’ve passed on that talent to your kids!) WOW.
(I have two boys, otherwise I’d be taking serious notes.)
Angela - I love it! What lucky little girls!
Staci Danford - What an incredible, wonderful creation.. AND an absolute amazing room.. Makes me wish I could force my “big” girl to be young and love pink again.. So precious…
Staci
sarah - Oh so very fantastic! I want one, myself. I don’t think Hubby would like it very much, though.
I do however want to make something like it for Kenzie’s reading corner.
Cate O'Malley - love it! that was one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and i got a screenshot of the tent to remember to make it for my daughter when she’s out of the crib. too adorable!
Melissa Gruber - really cute…i know my girls would love one!
Heather - Great job. What lucky girls! I’m going to have to try this for the little princesses in my life. I so love your blog and all the ideas.
Julie - What a beautiful room!! I have goven you an award over at my blog 🙂
maggi - Fantastic job on the tent!
Beth Eaton - I think it’s time for you to come and decorate my home now…. 🙂
jen - To die for CUTE!!!!! Looooovvvvveee it!
Missy - You did a great job on the tent! I’ve been trying to figure out for years(ever since I saw that movie) how to replicate it. Great idea with the hula hoops! I just found a neat blog a few days ago that has tons of pics of cool movie houses and I found great pictures of that Holiday tent (shots outside and inside)- so I couldn’t believe it when I saw your post today!
Edie Steinmann - My husband just walked into the room and said, “GAH, that’s pink!” twice! I think your girls’ room is beautiful, and eclectic, and perfect!
jennifer - We too have the bed on the floor. It makes rolling off and jumping off much safer! I just bought those polka dot sheets about a week ago. Love them. They are all the colors of Kates room. I’m going to buy another set next weeks to make curtains with!
Elma - It is perfect!!! I want to move in with you please!!!
Casey - lucky, lucky girls!! It’s so dreamy
Liz - Meg, this is SO dreamy, to say the least. I can see how any and all little girls would feel like princesses in there. Absolutely beautiful!
dori - I love it! A pink bedroom was my dream until I was, oh I don’t know, 21. Then I decided to be more mature and like purple. 😉
amy jupin - must i comment on every single post you make??
YES!
i’m in love with your version of the tent. so sweet!
and i have to say that talby and annie’s room looks like it’s ready for a valentine’s day photoshoot–all the red, the pink and the hearts! adorable!
Jess - oh~so~sweet! i want one too….
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Oh Meg I loved that part of the movie. It was just magical. What a fun room. I think it’s sweet they share a room and super fun that the floor is on the bed. I don’t let my girls jump on their beds because they would break the old bed frames for sure. But if it doesn’t have one…problem solved. The pink is perfect:)
Nichole - Oh man, I CANNOT show these pics to my daughter… I’ll never hear the end of it! 🙂 SO. VERY. PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!
Holly - very cute!
Lori - Adorable and very pr-wincessy!
sandy toe - What a perfect girls room…your girls are blessed!
sandy toe
adrienne - i love the pink tent! what fun for your girls… cute ideas.
Patricia - It’s awesome ~ and it makes perfect sense! And it’s perfect for a princess! Is there really such a thing as too much pink??
Staci - Oh man!!!! IIIIIII want one!!!! No girls for me 🙁 Wonder if I could get my boys to go for it??? hee hee 🙂 Yet another super great thing from the Rockstar Blogger herself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, I know, this would be a perfect place to run and hide when you feel like alllll eyes are on you!!!! But then, you’d probably have to run Talby and Annie out of it…and that wouldn’t be so good 🙁 Oh geesh am I rambling…gotta go cook up some pizza rolls for dinner 🙂 Mom of the Year….RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!
Donna - OMG. Is it sad that I want to be your BFF and I’ve never met you?
elizabeth of course - that is WONDERFUL!
jes - SOOOO adorable.
and so unique. love it 🙂
Katie - So dreamy, Meg! This is definitely one of those great ideas that I’ll file away to refer back to when I have a daughter. love it, love it, love it!
La Tempête - So cute!
Melanie - How great for your two girls. Doesn’t it make your heart happy to hear Talby say that she feels like a princess? How sweet. Great job.
Shiloh - I am so glad that I am not the only mother out there that has used white bed sheets as curtains! Love the tent, Meg!
kat - I love it!!! I LOVE the tent from The Holiday too! Your tent is “seriously cool” as well!!!
Natalie - How fun! I would have loved to have something like this as a kid. What a good mom 🙂
callie grayson - what a fabulous room!!!
great job!!
xx
callie
Tamra - my 5 and 6 year old girls (who share a room)are enviously checking out all the pictures. =) Awesome room
jenn - THAT IS SO FUN!!!!! You are one talented lady!
Julie K. - ADORABLE! That is so so cute. SO CUTE! I can’t imagine how heavy that tent is! I LOVE the butterfly painting above Annie’s dresser. It looks like a collage of materials – really cool. You are a decorating goddess. 🙂
Heather - I love that they share a bed and it has that fabulous tent hanging over it. It is alot of pink, but in a really, really good way!!
Immyyas - I love the pink!!! It is so girly & adorable. My girls would love every inch of that room!!!
Dana D@BoysMyJoys - Love it!!!
Especially love the butterfly pic above the white cabinet! Did you make it? It’s so sweet!
Sam Miller Gott - Love the tent. I think the one in The Holiday had Christmas lights?
Ariel - makes PERFECT sense…I am so doing this for my 3 year old…she will FLIP!!!
Kristine - looks great! my daughter was sitting on my lap looking at the pics with me and she said, “i want to go there. i want to play with that little girl. i’ll take my toys and play with her toys too.” (since there were no pics of A or T she had to assuuuuume a little girl lived there!) and good thing natalie is two or i’m sure she’d be begging me to do her room like that! great job! you’re hired if you want to come to KC to do it 🙂
Kate - I absolutely love it!!!
Nicole Q. - Love it! I tucked away a few ideas for Tatum’s room. She has the heart sheets from ikea too, hers are the white ones!! You are so talented and I love how you mix so many things that just scream LIFE!!
DreamGirlLisa - It came out so pretty! I bet they do love it, what little girl wouldn’t? What size is that duvet cover from Ikea? I looked at it on the site, but it didn’t show what size it was. It’s really cute.
Amanda - I love it so much!!!
TRACI - My daughter saw it and said, “MOMMY, BUY IT, BUY IT!!!” awesome job
donna - that is too cute. you never cease to amaze me!
Christina - I love it!! Bet my little boy wouldn’t… hm. Maybe in blue? without the flowers?
purejoy - so ah.dor.able. i wanna be a pwincess too!
Kim - So darling and fun at the same time! Having girls I completely understand about the “pink” thing!
Hannah - Meg! This is ADORABLE! Talby and Annie are very lucky girls! All princesses deserve a room like theirs!