I am not a great fan of oak in general, but I like the bed as is. It's classic and traditional -- not too country for me. I would also like it painted white, black, a color or stained darker or in a color. I think you have a lot of options there, but I'm not sure what you are trying to work with or if the things you have pictured are all to be replaced. Are you wanting to stay traditional and which color palette are you working with (do you know yet)? As far as the rest of the set, do those pieces meet you needs from a functional standpoint? If not, make some changes. If so, do you still like them and just want a fresh look or are you really tired of the set? Are you feeling tied to something that you don't know how to freshen up or that you don't really want to? How do you feel about painting or stripping and restaining. Could you DIY? Those questions are your starting point as far as I'm concerned. I don't toss furniture lightly, but I have moved a lot around from room to room. ;-) It looks like you have a lot of books. You could consider and end table with one or more shelves or even a bookcase on one side by the chair. I prefer a dresser that is nearly cleared, not covered, and just a few accessories. As I focus on that, I think your accessories are dating the room even more than the furniture. The dusty rose and green velvet as well as the red rose pillows are an older look. If you want something different, get updated pillow covers. I think you can use your quilts and give them new life just by accenting with updated pillows. I'd clear the dresser and start over. No runner, no frames -- just a couple of items that have some color and interest (I have a hand blow glass vase and a dresser tray with a painting above them -- no mirror). Seeing the crown on the center mirror, I think I'd replace the trio with a new, non-matching mirror. New lamps -- there are so many pretty options. Glass, dark metal or possibly simple chunky crystal would be what I'd be looking for, but you could find many options -- stone, marble, stained glass, etc. Get some art on the walls. HomeGoods might be a place to look for accessories, lamps, mirror -- even art from time to time, if you have one near by. I think you can change the accessories and get a lot of mileage out of a lot less money than new furniture. The one piece I'd be most likely to replace (other than the mirror) would be the nightstand. It seems low and small by today's standards and it looks like you could use something larger with a bookshelf and drawers below.

My own experience is that yes, a girl's room MIGHT evolve, but most boys could care less, so "evolution" was due to wear and tear! When my daughter was expecting her first child (she knew it was a boy), she saw some bedding in either The Company Store or Garnet Hill catalogs. It had huge red cherries with green leaves. The dust ruffle was red/white check gingham. She bought the duvet cover for the twin beds in the room, and a matching sham, and the dust ruffle. And she bought some white sheets with a deep red scallop. The walls were painted a very pale robin's egg blue. She found some red/white large scale plaid and had roman blinds made. The rug was a carpet leftover in taupe. The crib had white pique bumper pads on which I sewed a trim of red ladybug swiss woven ribbon. The art on the wall was a grouping of prints from a calendar - they were reproductions of the alphabet from a famous children's book (no memory of what book). The room was adorable. Later, my late husband and I found the most adorable prints on a train over the Rannoch Moor - they were of cats dressed as various workers on a passenger train. Just charming. The dust ruffles finally wore out and ripped. The duvet covers had stains that would no longer come out. The dust ruffles were replaced with a blue/white striped sort of ticking kind of material - ready-made. We found darling hand-made patchwork quilts in primary colors at LLBean. Blue/wht gingham duvet covers came from Pottery Barn for kids. When I reupholstered my late mother's sofa, the existing loveseat-size sleep sofa left my library and ended up in the boy's bedroom (it's a large room - about 20x20 and the two boys have shared it since the younger was 2). Later, the rug had become a biohazard and it was replaced with a strong Yale blue remnant. The alphabet prints came down, but the cat prints stayed but where they were hung changed. Sheets are still going strong! A hue wall-hanging that is a map of Martha's Vineyard is now on the wall. But wall color is the same and those roman blinds are hanging in. The boys are now 16 and almost 19 (he's at college so now younger brother has it all to himself). I like to see children's rooms look "nice", but I do not like a highly decorated children's room. When I see ones with Stark rugs and de Gournay wallpaper, and bedding from Porthault, I am repulsed. Such a horrible use of very special things that will be badly treated, no matter how well brought up the child is. Children wet the bed, throw up in the bed or on the rug, put their dirty little paws on the walls. I cannot stand to see lovely thing abused, or a child so limited by the "preciousness" of his room, that he is only allowed to sleep in it. When DGS1 was getting ready to go off the college last fall, his mother wanted his input on bedding for his dorm room. To say there was a distinct lack of interest is an understatement! She choose checked sheets and a contrasting duvet cover but he didn't care. She has friends whose daughters wanted their mother to hire an interior designer to "decorate" their dorm rooms as many of the other girls were doing. DD is SO glad she has two boys! Her home is important to her and she wants it to be attractive, but a designer for a dorm room? Dust ruffles? Curtains? NOT her thing!

The best way to approach this is to first have an accurate diagram of your entire floorplan with dimensions of everything. The last thing you want to do is to spend a great deal of $$$ adding onto your home with a dysfunctional layout that will reduce the value of your property. I've seen additions that turn a functional floorplan into something that is not at all functional and you don't want to go there. None of us can give you any advice with the information provided other than seek out an architect. You could get better advice with the floorplan and its dimensions including doorways and windows and closet areas.

Cork is an excellent carpet replacement product. It is warm and quiet underfoot. It comes in two formats: A floating click-together format for 'dry' areas and a glue down tile for wet areas such as bathrooms and mud rooms. Yep...you heard me. The glue down cork tile is 100% water proof. As in MORE water proof than vinyl click together products. How? The glue down cork tiles are butted together (no grout lines) when installed. They are then coated x2 with water based polyurethane. The poly seals the seams to create a continuous sheet of cork. The only areas of concern (as with ALL floors in a bathroom) would be at the walls where cork meets drywall. I'm a cork flooring expert. I've done this more times than I can count. A situation like yours were you do NOT want to refinish the entire house because two rooms had issues. Cork is an oak. It has many of the same colour tones as White and Red oak. In fact it starts out quite orange (sigh...ignore that phase of it's life...it doesn't last very long) but soon calms down to a lovely soft yellow which is IDENTICAL to the current laminates you have. Here's how I would do it: I would pick a floating floor that has an IDENTICAL glue down tile option. I would install the floating floor in the bedroom. This gives you the 'total' floor height that you need to match. Now you remove the bathroom flooring and lay in new plywood OR cement backer board (cork doesn't care) to raise the floor up. Now you glue down the cork tile (6mm or 8mm) so that it matches the existing floating floor. Finish the floor in two coats of polyurethane and Voila! A continuous floor with minimal effort. A glue down tile floor (if you hire this part out) is going to cost (labour plus materials) the same as a porcelain tile installation. That's roughly $12-$15/sf. Sounds horrible until you realize you have 30sf to cover...now that's not too bad! A floating cork floor will cost (roughly) the same as a HIGH END vinyl floor installation ($4-$5/sf for materials + $3/sf for labour). www.icorkfloor.com Cork Flooring Tiles Glue Down - Forna Silver Birch 6mm Flooring (icorkfloor.com) Floating Cork Floor - 12mm Forna Floating Cork Flooring (icorkfloor.com) Those are just and example of how to get a continuous floor in two different formats of cork.