Boys Bedroom Redo…
Okay to kick of my theme of “home” this month, I thought I’d share with you photos of my sons room that we recently redid. I shared a little ‘sneek peek’ on my facebook page last month and thought I’d share the details with you today.
This room has been through a few transformations. When we moved in it was a nice, clean, blank slate and looked like this:
Shortly after we moved in, we decided to paint it. My son has ALWAYS loved the color yellow and I mean LOVE. When he was little he always had to have a yellow cup and a yellow plate, a yellow shirt- you get the idea. So we decided to paint his room yellow… (big surprise)
First we added board and batten molding all around.
We put a shelf on one wall with these fun star blocks to hold it up.
Then per his request we painted the room yellow.
After a couple of years he started complaining that it was too dark and he wanted something lighter. I had seen the movie 500 Days of Summer and fell IN LOVE with the chalkboard wall in the main characters room. I was dying to try it somewhere in our house, so I thought we’d try out painting chalkboard paint behind his bed…
I wanted to “paint” a picture frame on top of the chalk paint but I was vetoed by him and his dad. They said to leave it blank so he can color it like he wants.
I have been collecting “A”‘s for a couple of years now and hung them all on the wall over the chalkboard paint (which by the way is wonderful to hang things on, you can write on the wall to mark where you want your nails).
I found a quilt at the Pottery Barn outlet in Ohio and decided to match one of the grays for the wall.
The lighter gray is MUCH brighter in the room and shows off his red furniture well. The portrait I just painted of him matched up perfectly too, so I hung it in there- is it weird to have a portrait of yourself in your room? I couldn’t decide..
We added lots of hooks to the molding, make a perfect spot to hang stuff up, and I find that kids are much more likely to hang something up on a hook than a hanger.
I’m happy with how it turned out, and more importantly so is he… hopefully we will not be repainting this room again for a very long time!
