One of my favorite Styx songs is all too appropriate for the send off of my boys "little boy" room. If you know me, you know that I've always loved a good nautical theme for a boy. A little boy. Not a big boy and certainly not a teenager. Yes, my boys are growing up and it's time to let them move onto older themes. sniff sniff The sailboats have more than done their job...they've been used in three house. It was time to let them retire. I actually had a hard time putting together their room. If you have boys, you know there seems to be limitations on what you can do for a boy. Once they get older, you can't let a theme (ie. sailboats) over take the room and yet, I didn't want the room to be consumed by a boring color palate.
Enter navy, green and orange. I think I found a good middle ground. And can I just say, I love the green on the walls....it's a great green....a boyish green. I have two favorite finds for the room. Can you guess what they are? The lockers and the Times Square photo. The lockers were another awesome KSL classifieds find. Cost me all of $100. They were a minty/appley green...nothing a little navy spray paint couldn't fix. (If you ask me, spray paint can fix just about anything) And that cool wall art, you ask? My beloved IKEA for a mere $60. Love, love it...feel like it brings just the right amount of cool to the room. The metal bookcases (had to saw the legs down to make them the right size) and the navy ledge shelves by their beds (perfect for Ipod and book holding) are other IKEA finds. I also love Josh's little music/lounge corner. I just knew my old paper rack could be put to good use...perfect for holding all his music and magazines. I also love the guitar hanging on the wall...useful art!
Lest you think I'm a ball of energy and just completed this, dont worry. I did this almost a year ago, but never got around to photographing it! See the "very clean" before photo? Well, I thought of not including that and letting you think my kids rooms are always clean by using only the cropped shots. That's why I never got an after shot...the room pretty much always looks like that and you just can't have a messy after shot, right? So, today, after a big family cleaning rally, I knew my photo-op had arrived and it would quickly pass if I didn't take advantage of it. SOOO....there you have it, the boys (not so) new, improved, and more grown up room!
6 comments:
You did such a great job putting it all together. The colors are fabulous. I'm sure the boys love it. Oh, and the orange chair is awesome. Ryan would love that. Orange is totally his color.
Very cool. I love the green and the lockers!
The new room rocks! :) LOVE the green you picked. And Navy works great with it...look at you finishing off room by room!
This post makes me so sad! Nan-new and Jo getting too old for the sail boats??? Please don't throw them out in case I want to come over and have a Coke-holding the sailboat and take a walk down memory lane. Where is the time going? No more "I lost a tooth" t-shirts, and no more sailboats.
Ain't that somethin'? ;)
Looks great, Julie! I love the colors and the lockers are great! I'm redoing my boys' room too. But with 1950's and 1960's muscle cars. I'm excited to see how it will turn out.
Looks great! My stairs are carpeted and I used a sponge actually! Crazy huh?!
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