By Mi-Ling\u2019s Comfort Zone
\nFirst Published 2004<\/p>\n
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What are little girls’ dreams made of?\u00a0 Is it sugar and spice? Most little girls want to be a princess and live in a castle. Well, that dream is a reality for six-year-old Sarah Clymer. Her parents Shari and Jeff have created a fairly tale bedroom suite for their daughter in the upstairs of their 5,000 square foot home.<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s playroom, bedroom, and her castle were designed by her parent\u2019s when they built their dream home in 1996. Shari and Arthur had been working in their family business for a while before they had Sarah. After Sarah was born Shari took Sarah to work with her at their insurance business until she got a little older.\u00a0 Entertaining a child was difficult to do in a work environment so she decided to set up an office at home to accommodate Sarah\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n
The design ofShari\u2019s office allowed her to co-exist with her daughter\u2019s busy life style. \u00a0\u00a0She even had a loft built up into the ceiling which allowed Sarah to climb up there and play with her friends while mommy worked. Now that Sarah is older she has her own little computer station and loves to play games on the internet while her mom is busy servicing their clients.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favorite place in the whole house is my bed, Sarah said.\u201d<\/p>\n
She is referring to the large canopy bed in her room. But the best part of her room is the delightful castle\/playhouse that her parents had built to utilize unused attic and closet space in Sarah\u2019s room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made something out of nothing and it became a neat little spot where you can go and snuggle up or read a book and have a tea party,\u201dShari said.<\/p>\n
Upon entering the second floor of this spacious 2,500 square foot suite you are drawn in by the beautiful hand-painted mural of a cottage. \u00a0It\u2019s similar to a Mary Englebriet <\/em>theme, but it was painted by Oklahoma muralist, Kimberly Morgan. Morgan also painted scriptures on the walls and the fa\u00e7ade of the castle.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are a gift from God was on the birth announcements that we sent out when Sarah was born. This is just one of the scriptures that we had Kimberly paint on the walls in Sarah\u2019s bedroom,\u201d said Shari.<\/p>\n The upstairs layout includes a large office for Shari, two large bedrooms, two baths and an exercise\/TV room for their son Arthur, who is 18 years-old. Arthur is Shari\u2019s stepson and he visits on a regular basis. He shares his passion for the Cowboys with his father who is an OSU graduate. This room is currently in the process of being painted orange and black\u2026maybe, it\u2019s still being debated.<\/p>\n When designing the spaceSharialso had help from designer, Gina Moore. Gina made most of the drapes throughout the house while Shari tackled the wall paper in the bathrooms, although she admits, it was bit time consuming.<\/p>\n The interior of Sarah\u2019s castle has plenty of room for overnight guests with a built in daybed and bookcases. \u00a0She also has a large collection of costumes for dress-up and tea time. Just above the daybed is a life-like window with a light that resembles sunlight coming in.<\/p>\n When Shari and Jeff designed the space for Sarah they had function, beauty, and fantasy in mind. They paid attention to every detail in her room and made sure she was comfortable. The comfort zone that the Clymer\u2019s designed for Sarah encourages her creativity to soar and allows her to spend lots of quality time with mom.<\/p>\n Now go out and create your own unique\u00a0comfort zone!<\/p>\n Photo Credit: Mi-Ling Stone Poole<\/p>\n Photos 1 –\u00a0Along with her castle playroom, Sarah’s bedroom furniture includes two large club chairs, a canopy bed\u00a0and a writing table that has a view outside to the pool.<\/p>\n Photo 2 – \u00a0Sarah’s castle is\u00a0complete\u00a0 with a built-in\u00a0bed, book shelves and\u00a0a table and chairs for tea parties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Mi-Ling\u2019s Comfort Zone First Published 2004 What are little girls’ dreams made of?\u00a0 Is it sugar and spice? Most little girls want to be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[844,841,843,550,839,845,840,842,655],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-mi-ling","tag-buil-inbed-storage","tag-castle","tag-childs-room","tag-designer","tag-gina-moore","tag-loft","tag-mural","tag-playroom","tag-tea-room"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shari-clymers-daughters-room-0071-e1334293837182.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi-ling.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}