Back To School Boy's Bedroom Makeover
My boys are on their second week of the new school year. My oldest son, Liam is in 5th Grade and my youngest son, Jaxon is in 2nd Grade. And as their mom, its been a bit hard on me. I still remember sending them off to Kindergarten like it was yesterday. It's wonderful to see them learn and grow, but it just feel like it all goes by so quickly, which I know every single mom can relate to. Am I right?
So besides, to present my boys a sparkling begin for the brand new school year, I gave their bedroom a chunk of a makeover.
The biggest change was that I debunked their bunk beds to give them each their own separate space. And then I painted the beds, along with the armoire in the room a navy blue. I plan to share a before and after of the beds with all of the paint details sometime later this week. So if you are interested in seeing more of that then be sure to come back soon. Painting the beds really made a world of difference.
For a while there I was on a major hunt looking for cool and affordable bedding. I was pleased to I find these sets at Walmart. The gray, blue, and red stripes were perfect for the room, plus it was nice that this set also comes with sheets.
I had at the start planned to trade the wall coloration, however after seeing it with the brand new bedding I determined there has been no want to trade it, it become perfect! The coloration is known as, Secret Passage via Olympic.
The tender grey at the partitions is a nice balance to the chalkboard wall on the alternative facet of the room.
My boys instructed me to paint over the chalkboard due to the fact they don't use it very an awful lot anymore, however I simply couldn't do it, I nonetheless think it is cool.
As you may already know from this post, I often use sheets as curtains. Mostly because sheets cost less, but also because they are longer than most curtains. Here I have just cut a twin size gray sheet in half and hung it with curtain rings. By the way, Walmart sells twin size sheets for only 5 dollars.
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I told a friend I was redecorating my boy's room and she asked, "Oh, what theme are you doing?" I laughed and replied, "Teenager". Ha Ha! But truthfully I wanted the room to look more Cool and something they could grow into and less like a fad of something they will outgrow in a year. So I took to my stack of Pottery Barn Teen magazine for inspiration and what I saw was a lot of rooms cluttered with boy stuff; skateboards, sports equipment, hats, etc. So that is what I was trying to achieve here. :)
Above Jaxon's mattress I hung an antique American flag that my husband got as a child. The tale behind this flag is that it as soon as hung above the state's Capital. My husband I bet wrote a letter or some thing and this become sent to him. Pretty cool!
The room has a great little window seat with a built in bookcase. I've just hung up a cork board where they can pin up their sports pictures and such.
Above Liam's bed I've hung up a coat rack that I made a while ago, but I repainted it in the same navy blue as the beds. I found the So Rad free printable Here and thought it would be fun to hang it up with duct tape.
And I did the same thing with this Kapow printable.
I nonetheless have a laugh writing on their chalkboard, even supposing they're so over it :)
And lastly right here are only a few extra pictures of the full room.
The new layout has been wonderful. The boys each have their own space and there's still plenty of room to play. But what matters the most is that my boys both really like the new look a lot.
It's simply what they wished for a clean new faculty yr.
Thank you for stopping by way of,
Emily