Transforming a nursery to big boy room FOR TWO!
Ahhhh remember baby Amos's nursery? I loved that room. It was my favorite room in the house. Alas, the problem with falling in love with a nursery is babies grow up and need big kid rooms. In this case, last year we decided to move both boys into the same room so it needed to be a big kid room for TWO.
I loved the grey (and am too lazy to repaint) so I knew that was staying. I knew we'd need a bunk bed, which Papa Ron lovingly agreed to build. (No, you may not have him.) We moved the toy storage and train table in and added a dresser repurposed from the living room. Both the bed and dresser were painted with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint from Flower + Furbish.
The last piece was removing the trees and adding color in a new and fun way. I love the look of bright bold colors on a calm background and G (Nicholas's mom) made the most awesome modern cool kids quilts for the boys bed. Inspired by those colors, I bought a rainbow of vinyl and cut big polka dots to scatter randomly around the room.
I'm so thrilled with the results and the boys are too!
This is what it looks like outside my house right now. It's raining cats and dogs which isn't exactly prime DIY weather. See that playground in the background being soaked to the core? It really needs to be restained but between waiting for it to be completely dry and then remain completely dry for 16 hours afterwards... well, there's a reason it's never getting done.