Over a weekend I accomplished two fairly simple updates. First, I hung up the mirror I got when I purchased the plethora of furniture a few months ago. It originally looked like this…
Yeah, I know. Anyway, I painted it a bright red. Then hung it untraditionally on the wall, it works well as a full-length mirror while allowing his room to look bigger and brighter.
Next to his mirror I made a magazine rack. I saw this one from Pottery Barn Teen and used it as my inspiration.
As you may recall, the boys’ beds used to be bunk beds but now that we have five bedrooms they no longer have to bunk together. Get it? Bunk together? Bunk beds? I crack myself up. I digress.
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As you may recall, the boys’ beds used to be bunk beds but now that we have five bedrooms they no longer have to bunk together. Get it? Bunk together? Bunk beds? I crack myself up. I digress.
Well, separating the beds left me with an unnecessary railing so I used that as the meat of my magazine rack. Mmmm, meat, a steak from McGuire’s sounds really good right about now. Again, digressing…I promise.
I decided how big I wanted the rack and cut the railing into three equal pieces and screwed them together. Then I took two wire racks that I bought from Kirkland’s last month, I believe they were on sale for around $6 each. So for $12 smack-a-roos my baby boy now has a place to put all his favorite books and his plethora of Lego magazines.
I also hung some curtains that used to live in our living room in Pensacola but the chocolate brown worked perfectly in his room and why go buy or make new curtains when these work just fine? And the American flag art that I made for The Pinterest Challenge got hung over his bed. A few other things in his room are just taken from other rooms in our house. That's part of the beauty of moving regularly, with each new house we can switch and rearrange things. So when I replace a lamp for instance (his black one used to live in my bedroom) I keep it because I know it'll come in handy someday.
I still want to get him a big, comfy beanbag. I also plan to fill up his empty wall (not pictured) by making him a desk. And then after we add an area rug I think we'll call it done in here.
If we owned the house I'd do something to the walls, like paint, or maybe add some crown moulding, or replace door hardware at the least but since we are renting there is only so much that we can do, therefore our "complete" rooms in this house are different than a homeowners "complete" rooms. But we work within the constraints we have and do our best to make it feel like ours, to feel like home.
Lor
I also hung some curtains that used to live in our living room in Pensacola but the chocolate brown worked perfectly in his room and why go buy or make new curtains when these work just fine? And the American flag art that I made for The Pinterest Challenge got hung over his bed. A few other things in his room are just taken from other rooms in our house. That's part of the beauty of moving regularly, with each new house we can switch and rearrange things. So when I replace a lamp for instance (his black one used to live in my bedroom) I keep it because I know it'll come in handy someday.
I still want to get him a big, comfy beanbag. I also plan to fill up his empty wall (not pictured) by making him a desk. And then after we add an area rug I think we'll call it done in here.
If we owned the house I'd do something to the walls, like paint, or maybe add some crown moulding, or replace door hardware at the least but since we are renting there is only so much that we can do, therefore our "complete" rooms in this house are different than a homeowners "complete" rooms. But we work within the constraints we have and do our best to make it feel like ours, to feel like home.
Lor
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