How Modsy Saved My Girls’ Shared Bedroom
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I love decorating my house.
The minute we walked through our current house, I was thinking about how our furniture would fit, what each room would look like and what projects I wanted to do.
Some rooms are very straight-forward – we arranged our living room furniture within a few hours of getting the keys to the house and haven’t moved it again. Same with our bedroom.
Other rooms are trickier.
In our last house, it was the basement playroom. It was a MASSIVE space and I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to use it in a way that both looked good and functioned well.
When I heard a Modsy review on a podcast, I immediately purchased a Modsy design package (using a Modsy promo code, naturally), and I was SO happy with how our basement turned out.
When we ended up selling that house about nine months later, I felt like the basement was one of the showpieces of the house that really made it attractive to prospective buyers, instead of the eyesore it had been for much of the time we lived there.
In this current house, the room that stumped me was the shared girls’ room.
When we initially moved in, we put one of our queen beds in there, but that was a nightmare from the get-go because having two small girls share a bed was a total disaster. They kept each other awake, stole the covers, and pestered each other so neither of them could fall asleep.
We quickly decided a bunk bed would be our best option, but I felt flummoxed by how to make the room work.
Enter Modsy.
After the amazing job they’d done on our tricky basement, I knew they’d be able to work their Modsy design magic on this room.
Modsy Design
It’s super simple.
You take Modsy’s style quiz (which is fun and quick) and share any links or Pinterest boards you have with images you like.
Then you take some photos of your room (just with your phone and you don’t even need to clean up – you can tell from my photos that I DEFINITELY did not), give them the measurements of the room and submit it.
A few days later, they send you a 3D design of your room and you scrape your jaw off the ground at how amazing it is (that second part is optional, probably, but not for me).
They give you multiple ideas for how to decorate your room, filled with shoppable pieces of art and furniture so you can see exactly how it’ll look and fit in your actual room.
Is that chair too tiny? Is the art look stupidly small on the wall? Can that bedside table fit between the wall and the bed?
And then with the Modsy’s 3D Style Editor and Live Swap feature you can change the layout and the furniture in your 3D room (this is basically my childhood dreams come true – I used to draw rooms in Paintbrush – does that program even exist anymore – for hours). Or you have a Modsy Designer avaialbe to help you make decisions and end up with a room you love.
Once you’re happy, you just add any pieces you want to buy to your cart and you’re ready for them to show up at your door and for your room to look 10,000 times better.
Ready to see the Modsy designs they came back with for my girls’ bedroom?
Here’s the first one:
You guys! I’m obsessed.
And here’s the second Modsy design:
Which one do you like better?
I can’t wait to make my girls’ room look like this in real life (and can you believe how life-like these 3D renderings are?).
Furniture Sources:
Bunk Bed
Dresser
Bookshelf
Chair
Floor Lamp
Leather Pouf
Wicker Side Table
Wall-mounted lamp
Rug
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If you try it out, I’d love to hear what you think!
They are both amazing! Gonna have to try Modsy.
Number 1 all the way! And, those renderings are so good I thought you had done it already!
Oh, this is TIMELY. Thanks for the rec!
We’re expecting a third in 6 months, and need to combine an office space, an organ (because I married a musician…), and a play area with all the playmobil/lego into the awkwardly-large-with-many-doors basement space so that we can free up some upstairs space, and I have NO CLUE how to go about making it look even halfway decent. I’m willing to outsource for help!
Question: if I get shoppable ANYTHING, it needs to be something that I can get in Canada. Any clue if they can accomodate that request?
Also, because we’re probably going to need to combine rooms… any chance you’d do a post on how to combine children in the same bedroom? Specifically: how you pick who shares with who (age? Personality? bedtime?), how old do kids need to be for bunk beds, logistically how do you handle bedtime… ??
Neither my husband nor I come from families where anyone has shared bedrooms, and we’re at a bit of a loss for how to make it work, in a very practical nuts-and-bolts sense. And you’re clearly managing it, so… halp?
Wow! Their renderings are beautiful! I personally like the first one a bit better but both are lovely. I have SO many rooms I could use this for in my house! Can’t wait to see which design pieces you use. Decorating posts are some of my favorites!
I’d go with the second! If the window is really very sunny, I’d want the bed to be away from it for maximum sleeping in potential. I also like how the art is a little more grown up– which will work for years.
Whoa! This is insane! Option 1 is for sure my favorite, but how cool to know I could be rearranged down the road. Can’t wait to see the final room!
Oh gosh they are both so cute! I need this for like… every room in my home! Furniture placement is so tough for me. I like the items used in #1 for functionality in a girls room, they seem to make more sense, but I could see why the 2nd furniture arrangement would be nice to have the bed opposite the window…. both good ideas!
I adore the first look! And, if possible, I’d love to know the brand of those bunk beds. We’ve been on the hunt and those are my favorite I’ve ever seen!
They’re from Room & Board! https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/kids/bunk-beds-and-loft-beds/waverly-bunk-beds
While both options are great, I would go with option 2 as the most practical. You would not want your girls to get distracted looking out of window when they should be trying to sleep! Regardless of what you choose, I know you will do a fine job.
How cool! I tend to prefer, if possible, to have the beds away from the window (California raised earthquake training runs deep). For that reason, I’d choose the second one, but they’re both adorable!!
The first one! So inviting.
When we moved into our new house last year, I remembered your post about Decorist and used that to find Modsy to get some inspiration for my open floor kitchen and living room. It’s AMAZING!! I was stunned at how accurate the renderings were. It really helped visualize what I wanted my living room to look like. I loved changing up the room and playing with their options. Plus, they offered me a holiday discount that made it so cheap! I now recommend Modsy to anyone I can!
I like Option 1 better, especially if this is the room for your little girls. The second option feels more grown up and also very Arizona-like with the cactus artwork and tribal textile (not that either of those are bad things, just maybe not the right fit).
I thought seriously about using Modsey when I was stumped on what type of rug to use in my bedroom and whether or not to change the paint color and just kind of lacked a vision for the room…and then I moved the living room rug upstairs and it all came together.
Oh my goodness! Those are beautiful! I LOVE that dresser.
The second one feels more open, to me. Pretty amazing, regardless!
They are both great! I like the first one better, but don’t think you can go wrong with either.
It is SO GOOD! I can’t get over how much I love that first one!
Number 2! ✌🏻
Wow – I’m a bit blown away to be honest – that is truly amazing, it looks like your real room – but better ! 😉
I’m in Australia – would they do a rendering for me, even though I can’t buy the furniture via them?
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I’ll ask and see!
Beautiful! Option 1 is definitely my favorite. 😍
I had no idea a service like this existed! Genius! I love the first room, its more feminine and beautiful. Lucky girls!
I love the first one, but both are beautiful! Does Modsy give you the sources of all furniture and art work? I’m just wondering if you can’t afford to buy everything at once, if you can buy some pieces right away and buy the rest at a later date?
Totally! They’ll show you the exact pieces and then also alternatives for different price points and you can buy whenever you’re ready.
Both of the room suggestions are lovely. Now I really want to try Modsy! I’ve been struggling with our living room and decorating around the angled fireplace.
This is really amazing. Do they link the furniture that they use in the renderings? I always get frustrated when I find a design I really like, but cannot find the furniture anywhere. Thanks!
Yes, they do! And they show you alternatives at different price points too.
So I ended up doing a project for my daughters new shared bedroom with Modsy after reading your post. The designs, while professional looking, did not reflect 9 year old girls at all. Plus with all the furniture it was $27,000!!! Which is no where near my selected budget of $5,000. There was a gold giraffe shelf decoration for $1200. I am so disappointed. I requested changes, but honestly I’m not anticipating my views to change much.
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear it! Crossing my fingers that their unlimited revisions come through for you.
Just wanted to share that I tried your code last night (almost a year after this post was published) and it still works! What’s more, it’s currently working on Classic packages too. With their current crazy discount and your promo code, the total for a Classic package was $71. Wowza. Very excited to finally try this now that we’ll be in a more permanent space!