Today’s the day!!
Time to reveal our boys’ shared bedroom overhaul.
Over the last seven weeks we’ve been working on their bedroom as a linking participant in the One Room Challenge™ hosted by Linda of Calling It Home. Even with an extra week this ORC went by so quickly! I love how the boys’ room came out. The furniture layout provides so much space for them to play!!
If you missed any of this series you can catch up here:
week 1 | Week 3 | Week 3 | week 4 | week 5 | week 6
Welcome in!
Before we get to far let’s take a look back to this room three years ago.
When we bought the house almost 4 years ago this room was a disaster!! In the fall of 2014 we designed and installed a camp theme room for the boys. Now that they’re three years older and we needed to make the transition to two twin beds it was a good excuse to give it another update. It’s hard to believe how much it has changed.
This room is chock full of DIY, refinishing, and repurposing projects. It has been a real labor of love & PAINT has been my best friend over the past seven weeks.
With a paintbrush in hand and my mind on insects & adventure, I even wrote a little poem for my boys!
How fun is this spice rack repurposed as specimen jar style lego storage!
Check out our praying mantis pet! She was found in Grammy’s garden in early fall. We just found out this week that she’s a girl!! Check out the egg sac she laid in the top corner of her terrarium. I plan on removing the sac and putting it in a jar (with air holes) soon. In 4-6 weeks (in the warm indoor temps) hundreds of baby mantises will come crawling out if mama mantis mated before we found her.
Sources
PAINT:
walls | Benjamin Moore Decorator’s White
floor | Benjamin Moore Stone House
trim | Valspar Ultra White Semigloss
BOOKS:
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms
Everett, the Incredibly Helpful Helper
Leonard Visits Dinosaur Land (vintage)
TOYS:
DECOR:
Erlenmeyer Flask Set (ours are 500,300, and 125ml)
First Aid Box (ours was purchased from Schoolhouse Electric)
Bamboo Terrarium Feeding Tongs
Curiosities Calendar (we used pages from the 2017 version)
Ikea Emmie Ruta Beige Twin Duvet (queen)
Task Light (painted antique brass)
Industrial Sconce (no longer available – painted Ivory gloss)
Antler Toothbrush Holder (mounted on closet door – no longer available)
Wood Accordion Peg Rack (ours is vintage)
Nighttime Blue Striped Sheet Set
Gray Pattern Bolster Pillows, Feather Art Orange Plaid Blanket, Tommy Bahama Woven Basket (used as planter), Plaid Box – HomeGoods
Rattan Mirror – Cracker Barrel
Blue & White Textured Accent Pillows – Handmade using Cloth Napkins
Spindle Beds – Bulk Trash (painted in Starry Woods)
Cuckoo Clocks – vintage painted in Country Chic Paint Pistachio Delight (color no longer available)
Green Picture Frame (with snake book plate)
I am loving the boys’ new lighter more muted room AND they are particularly loving all the floor space!
Thanks for stopping in today and if you wouldn’t mind sharing this project we would really appreciate it.
Ready for more inspiring ORC spaces!! You can find the rooms of the 20 featured designers here and the party for all of the linking participants is here (available around 1am EST 11/16/17).
jessica, it looks SOOOOOOO good! love the soft colors and i love how much room they have to play!
Thanks Cassie. Once we took the train table they had out of the middle of the room there was so much space. We had a couple different options for bed placement but I’m glad we went with this layout because we were able to keep all that floor space!
Looks great! I would love to have had this room as a kid. Pinning the heck out of this space <3
Thanks so much Ariel!
Such an adorable space!! I am in love with those beds ❤️
Thanks Ty. I love the beds too! We majorly lucked out finding them in bulk trash!!
absolutely beautiful!! I love the whimsy of this space – pinning!
Thank so much Christina. 🙂
LOOOOVE the color choices you made her. Great space!
Thanks Libbie! Green is one of my sons favorite colors and mint is one of mine, so I think this was the perfect palette to make both of us happy!
Such a cute room! I love all the sweet details! The mushroom stool might be my favorite touch. 🙂
Thank you Emy. I picked that stool up at Sweet Clover a few years ago. 🙂
Such a fun makeover -I love your insect theme. I love all the little details too, like the painted clocks and the amazing art. Great job!
My little guys love insects and animals so it’s really a perfect fit for them right now. Thank you for your kind words!
What a wonderful boy’s room! I love the spindle beds and the color you painted them. All of the prints are perfect for the room too. And the vintage accents are the cherry on top! Great makeover and I’m sure he loves it!
The Starry Woods paint I used on the beds is my new favorite color. It is soooo good. Thanks for the love. The boys are really enjoying their new space!
This room!!! WOWZERS! It’s just the best ever! Love the theme and the bits of interesting items in every single nook and crannie. Love how there are spaces within spaces. LOVE the colors and textiles. You really rocked this makeover! It’s perfection! XO ~~ Susie from The Chelsea Project
Thank you so much Susie! You certainly know how to make a gal blush 🙂 So many sweet comments.
Everything is a-m-a-z-i-n-g, but I’m in love with the vintage wagon on top of the closets (so if it ever goes missing you know I somehow stole it, hehe). The boys must be so excited, its light and bright but still has that natural earth feel!
Thanks Susie! The wagon was passed down from my husband’s uncle. 🙂 I think I’m going to try finding a little Christmas tree to tie on top of it for the season!
This is THE CUTEST idea for a little boys room!!! I love it!!
Thank you so much Nicole. 🙂
Wow Jessica, you did such a great job with this room! I bet your boys love it! So many interesting elements here and what a difference from the before shots! Congrats!
Thanks Tee! It has certainly changed a lot since we bought the house almost 4 years ago. The biggest change this time around was changing the color palette and getting rid of the dark green trim. I enjoyed it for a while but was ready for something lighter and more fun.
This room is so bright and beautiful! I love the color of the beds and all the little decor details. Very nicely done!
🙂 Thank you Jillian!
You worked hard in boys room but looks like was so worth it, lots of great details and little treasures for them. They do have lots of room to play, important for kids.
How old are your boys? Mine are 16 months apart, they shared a room for long time. Those beds turned out so awesomely, do they love them?
Our boys had bunk beds and the things they did off those beds were tales told to us when they got into early teens, chi-ching gray hairs. Especially youngest boy, he was always our Tasmanian devil.
You did wonderful job on their room Mom, what’s next?
Have wonderful weekend ,get some rest.
They are 6 and 3. Our youngest is a little Tasmanian devil too! We had a set of bunk beds up in our attic but there’s no way they could handle them (at least right now). As for what’s next…we’ll see! I still need to work on our living room (which will be my craft room/studio, our mudroom, and our sunroom. Those rooms have basically not been addressed at all since we moved in.
I love that it’s a mixture of new and old, refurbished and untouched! Simply beautiful!!!
Thanks Jennie!
I love those Jenny Lind beds! So beautiful and love the color! What a great transformation!
I’ma sucker for spindle beds! So glad we found them and were able to make them work.
The beds are adorable! I love all the great details. The boys are going to love this.
Thank you Libbie. 🙂
Oh Jessica, this room is the perfect space for little curious minds! I love those added little details for learning and exploring. Of course, I adore the beds and their color, but the insect gallery, the spice rack Lego storage, the terrarium and all those vintage touches make this, a room any kid would love to have as its own. Beautiful!
Thank you so much Cristina! The boys are having so much fun in the space. It doesn’t hurst that it’s currently my favorite space in the house too. Makes me smile eery time I’m in there.