Decorating for the kiddos...part 2

As promised, here are some highlights of my boys' room.


I love this view of the boys' room. I painted that big horizontal white stripe all around the entire room, and I adore the way it turned out! It gives the room such punch! The pretty old dresser was one that The Hubby helped his Grandmother refinish, so we inherited it from her when she passed away. I just love using family heirlooms in my house. The beds turned out great too. I went back and forth trying to figure out what to do, and then I ran across an upholstered headboard with a monogram in a magazine,and thought "AHA!" I actually made these myself with plywood, batting, $3.99 linen from Joann's and white felt for the monogram. I used my trusty staple gun to upholster the plywood then added the monogram using this great stuff called fabritac. Works like a glue gun without the heat...hooray! I always burn myself with the glue gun!

Here's a closeup of One's bed. I had to add the denim for a little contrast, and the airplane pillows are made from the crib bumper that used to be in Three's crib. Now that he can use it to propel himself out of the crib, I thought it best to get rid of it, but it was so cute I had to do something else with it...TA DA! Pillows. Oh, and you can't tell in the photos, but I was going for this sort of menswear look, so both the brown throw pillows and the cream blankets have herringbone weaves.

A closeup of the barn star on top of the dresser. I just love barn stars. I covered the lampshade to match the denim pillows and window treatments, but then I decided it needed a little color so I tied on this cute metal star. Just the trick.


These pictures are blurry...I'm sorry, I was trying to photograph in low light this morning, and I didn't want to use the flash, so this is the result. I just love these balloon hooks. Don't they look so nostalgic? And I love to use typography...both letters and numbers as decoration.

The Nester would be so proud. This is a "mistreatment". The boys' closet door always bumped into the bedroom door, and it drove me crazy. The boys' have a large walk-in closet that they love to hide in. I decided to turn it into a little reading area (you can see the desk inside...I'm going to add pillows and such one of these days.) In the meantime, I wanted to give them easy access so I added this cute curtain. I used upholstery tacks to fasten it right to the door moulding. I actually sewed the brown velvet to the bottom, but then I used fabritac to attach the ribbon and hide the ugly seam. It turned out great! (My apologies again for the blurry photography...sigh.)

Just thought I'd show you this cute basket I found at Christmas Tree Shop. It's the perfect color for the room. The boys' actually have two of them in the room to hold all their books. You can see part of the crib skirt in this picture. I used some of the same denim and velvet to make a skirt so it would match the curtain on the door and blend with the older boys' beds.

Finally, I just thought I'd show you this cute framed piece I found at Target. It gives that feeling of nostalgia again. Isn't it fun?

I hope you enjoyed this little tour!