THE only thing missing in Jenny Grumbles’s sugar-sweet Dallas condo is Bruiser, the cute little Chihuahua from the film Legally Blonde. Other than that, the 27-year-old platinum-haired homeowner’s hot-pink pad mirrors the movies’ bubbly main character, Elle Woods.

Well, it’s not just hot pink—baby pink, magenta and rose all sparkle inside, too. As do bowls of bite-size disco balls, canisters of candy, metallic candleholders, mirrored furnishings and silky drapes dripping from honey-colored ceilings.

In April Grumbles, who owns the shabby-chic boutique Uptown Country Home in Dallas, bought the two-story condo. By mid-May she had turned it into a bubblegum bonanza with a shoestring $5,000 budget.

“I had no furniture, nothing,” says Grumbles. “I had been living with my mom to save money to buy and decorate the place.”

After closing in the spring, she ripped through home magazines—Domino, Elle Decor, Cottage Living—for inspiration to fluff-n-puff. A pretty pink room in Martha Stewart Living quickly became her muse, and she matched the blush hue at Home Depot with Behr’s appropriately named Glamour paint.

After the walls were candied with the sweet color, Grumbles went to home-hipster heaven Ikea to decorate. There she scored essentials: an overstuffed white sofa, matching side chair and pedestal dining table. Since the slick white table was a little too perfect, her mother, Fran, distressed it with sand paper and paint.

“I wanted things to be glamorous, but still me,” Grumbles says. “Glamour meets shabby chic.”

After the big pieces were bought for the downstairs rooms, she filled in the holes with her signature girly-glitz style. She scored a white modular bookcase on sale at Pier 1 Imports to store her color-coordinated chick lit, framed photos and a retro pale pink scale. Her champagne taste on a beer budget also steered her to vintage stores and garage sales, which delivered deals including a $5 distressed silver side table. Her mom found a mirrored coffee table at a Brownwood, Texas, junk shop and painted the base magenta to match faux-velvet floor cushions from Urban Outfitters and a Cath Kidston-style throw from TJ Maxx.

Grumbles lovingly calls the table a “Frantique” along with the cherry-blossom painting her mother made to avoid purchasing an expensive original to display above the sofa. “I couldn’t make my own; that would have just been weird,” she says. “I asked her to paint a cherry blossom because I’m really into them right now.”

Obviously. A vintage tin tray and a small painting with cherry blossoms are hanging in the living room. Faux blossoming branches are tucked into nooks and crannies throughout the condo, including under ribbons on her baroque-style inspiration board in the kitchen, another “Frantique.”

Just like her mom being a money-saving resource, so is Uptown Country Home, which Grumbles calls a “major perk.” The boutique turned up tons of treasures, including two retro metal table lamps, Pine Cone Hill pillows and the geometric mirrors in the dining area, whose frames she made over mod-style with high-gloss spray paint.

“It’s amazing what a $3 can of white spray paint can do,” she says.

Pale pink paint, however, proliferates. It coats the dining room’s bamboo Chippendale chairs she found at an Industrial Boulevard antiques shop. They were inspired by a set in designer Jonathan Adler’s book My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living. Her mom made leopard-print cushions for the seats that match those inside the cheeky designer’s tome.

In the kitchen, she went with a bold color dubbed Cargo Brown by Ralph Lauren. Pale pink pots, pans, spatulas, ice cream scoops—even a Dirt Devil vacuum—pack a punch against the sophisticated, soothing shade.

Upstairs goes back to girly with pink walls, framed Barbie sketches, ruffled cord covers and a gold antique chair she found at a junk shop. The icing on the cake is a decorative vintage pink hairdryer she scored at an antique shop.

“It adds some humor, something unexpected,” she says. “It’s a total Jonathan Adler-inspired purchase.”

The office area upstairs was turned into a sitting room instead, because she could not resist a Philippe Starck Ghost chair on eBay instead of the computer she was supposed to be shopping for. “A Philippe Starck Ghost chair comes before a computer any day,” she says. “I ran out of money for a washer and dryer, too. I just use my next door neighbor’s.”