Decorating a Boy's Room

So how do you decorate a boys room? When Victor was born and I started collecting things to go in his room I knew that I didn't want a baby nursery. I wanted a room that would be a good fit no matter how old he was. Call me lazy but I just didn't want to re-decorate when he outgrew elephants and clowns. You might call his room Patriotic Transportation.

This is his room in our old house where I went kind of crazy experimenting with paint. He liked it but I wanted something more timeless in our new house. I had the painters paint all of my new walls, ceiling and trim the same bleached sand paint so I could take my time adding color. I painted Victor's trim shortly after we moved into the house. After that I decided that bleached sand was a perfectly good color and haven't done any painting since!


Instead of getting ready for our trip yesterday, I spent the day (and night) decorating Victor's room for his birthday next week. He stood ready to hand me hammers and drills until he passed out on the bed at around 11:00. I kept working, staying up till 2 a.m. to get it finished. I'm so happy to have one more thing crossed off my to-do list!

I bought this rack from Pottery Barn on clearance. Now the boy has a place to hang his robe, a towel and a sweatshirt. The floor has been working really well for him so far but I didn't so much like that system.

This is the secret door in his closet that I wrote about a couple months ago.

We found this ore at the lake several years ago. It's hanging over his (unfinished) closet.

I found the old wooden racquets at a garage sale and I picked up the artwork of ships and planes at various discount stores as well as the clock. Eventually I'm going to put a window seat under the window for him that will have a couple extra drawers for storage.

This flag hung at the White House! Did you know you could order flags that have flown at the White House? Apparently they just run one flag after another up the poles all day. You can call your local congressman and ask for a flag request to be mailed to you. I think I only paid $7 for this one.

I bought this old wooden sleigh for five bucks at a garage sale. The blue bookshelf is the first thing I tried to build for my house. A friend of Stranger offered to let me borrow his tools but when we went over there he wouldn't let me touch any of them and ended up building the whole thing himself. After that I started collecting my own tools from garage sales. I built this headboard from an old wooden door. The little night stand I bought at a garage sale for $5. I want to paint the bookshelf and night stand. What color do you think I should use? I'm thinking black or dark chocolate brown.

I bought these little star quilt hangers from pottery barn so I could figure out how to make my own. I've never made any and in fact this is the first time I have ever used the stars! They need to be painted too, probably black. The quilt is black and red and gold. Those are supposed to be suns but my sister said she thought they looked like turtles so now it's the turtle quilt.

Do you think some day I will get all my doors stained? I'm afraid it's too far down my list to happen any time soon.

Here is a happy boy looking very cool.

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