We had a great weekend! I hope you did, too.
Any time that we do some DIY I have a great time. You know how it is.
This weekend the project was less than $100, and we made over a whole room.
Yes! Less than $100! Crazy, right?
It was maybe more of a mini makeover, but it made a dramatic difference in the younger boy's bedroom.
Let me refresh your memory on the before sitch:
We had the bunkbed happenin' and they stayed a major mess. They were hard to make up, and they stayed piled with junk all the time.
There was just TOO MUCH STUFF to really be able to make the room look neat, and not nearly enough storage.
Awesome signs were just stuck in corners where they didn't really stand out.
I made the Drop Cloth Cockpit (which the Littlest loved), but it just encourage more piling of junk behind the flap.
So, there were lots of problems that needed to be solved.
1. De-crapify the entire room
2. Make the beds more user friendly for the actual users. The Middle-un is 13 now, and he is tired of climbing up into bed every night.
4. Organization after de-crapification.
We were in project mode when we got up on Saturday morning. Even with grocery shopping and a birthday party on the to-do list, we were determined to get it done.
And, much to his chagrin, the Littlest had to help out with the de-crapifying. It's mostly his junk anyway, so he should have a say in what stays and what goes (with me having the ultimate authority, of course). He did great! He was ready to donate lots of things that he wasn't ready to let go of just a couple of months ago. We were even able to toss lots of McDonald's toys. Yea!
We would never throw away books, but we are donating a ton of them. Both of the boys that share this room are readers, so we are always going to need more room for new books.
Then, we un-stacked the bunk bed for easier access for the Middle-un. He had been saying that it was getting harder and harder to climb up with out waking his brother up. Problem solved.
Since we un-stacked the beds we had to reconfigure their storage in the corner of the room. There were two corner units that we took out completely, and just shifted the dressers and hutches around.
Now for the ridiculous number of pictures with more explanations.
This is what the beds look like un-stacked. Notice how the posts on one bed come up higher? I don't really care. I doubt most people would even notice it!
I kept the same bedding and shifted the plane wall art to the middle of the wall. We added the C's above each bed with reading lamps mounted beneath.
So far, we have spent $22 dollars on the lamps. Everything else we already had.
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We moved the map that was thumbtacked to the wall down a bit, and used pine boards to frame it out. We simply nailed them to the wall, securing the map beneath.
The boards were about $13 at Lowes.
You can see that we moved the propeller to wall with the window, and now you can see the prop from the hallway, which I like. There were no curtains in the room, so I bought a rod and a single flat white sheet at WalMart. I simply ripped the sheet down the middle and hung each half with clips, folding in the rough edge.
The rod was about $14, and the sheet was $10. Now we are up to a whopping $59!
We took one of the hutches off and it's now being used between the beds as a stand alone shelf. We moved the dressers to be side by side, and relocated the Charter sign to this wall. Eventually, a small tv will reside where the globe is sitting.
I bought a few more fabric bins (which are empty right now!), they were only $4 each and got 3.
$59 + $12 = $71
That's the total!
I know that it's not a complete makeover, but it really makes such a difference in the room. It feels so much bigger without the everything being so high in the room. The bunks were up high, and the wall units were massive in the corner. Now it feels much more spacious and more suitable for older boys.
We were able to store all the Littlest' Legos in bins that he can slide under his bed. And, now we are working on putting away bins before getting out something else.
Since we finished, he has spent a lot of time in here. He loves his reading lamp, and the signs above the beds. The Middle'un is thrilled that he doesn't have to climb anymore.
Over all, it's a big hit. And, we didn't break the bank or our backs.
Note: The wall color looks absolutely awful in the pictures! It's really not that green. It's more of a khaki color.
What room do you need to give a good de-crapifying to?
