Area Girl with Leukemia Gets Bedroom Makeover

Six-year-old Kennedy Khalimsky of Palatine has an "awesome" new Victorian-era princess bedroom thanks to the volunteer efforts of Special Speces, a suburban organization that gives bedroom makeovers to area children with life-threatening illnesses, according to the Daily Herald. 

Khalimsky was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2012 and has been confined to her bedroom during the treatments, according to the article. 

The Special Spaces projects are new to the area. The first bedroom makeover was completed by Special Spaces, which is based in Naperville, in Febraury when the organization transformed the Naperville room of 3-year-old Evie Brown into a princess room, according to the Special Spaces Facebook page. 

"For a child with a critical illness who spends a lot of time at home in his or her room, that room should be a very special space," according to Special Spaces Facebook page. "It should be a room that is designed and dreamed up by the child so as to become a place that is unique and loved by him or her."