Now that I conquered painting sunshine onto the dismal pink mocha walls of the gloomy basement, it was time to repeat that in my son’s room.
Pink mocha travesty
Bemoaning the paint can we found in the garage which accurately declaring the puke colored walls of his room and the basement as pink mocha, my son couldn’t wait to remedy that travesty.
I couldn’t blame him. Nor could the movers.
When they hauled our furniture and boxes into the house a couple of weeks ago, they chatted with my son, who told them of the horrid pink mocha paint on his bedroom walls.
They laughed and agreed he needed to paint those walls asap!
So twelve days after securing the keys from the real estate agent, moving in to the house, unpacking moving boxes, painting the pink mocha basement, and visiting Colonial Williamsburg for a day, it was time to brighten his gloomy quarters!
Wanting another train mural
Initially my son wanted me to repaint the train mural on his walls, which I can’t blame him.
Those walls were my favorite, ever. So happy and fun, I loved hanging out in his room if we were playing a board game or something.
However, I told him in another year or two, he’ll want an older boy’s room, and I’m swamped between homeschooling and working on this fixer upper we bought.
Besides, I had a feeling we needed to keep the walls simple for easy resale in the future…
Creamy yellow compromise
Suggesting yellow, one of his favorite colors, would brighten his room while providing a neutral backdrop for all his amazing art projects…and also nuetral for a future resale.
Using the same creamy yellow as I used in the basement, I had suggested a more modern butterscotch yellow, but he preferred the creamy tone.
Once again, the creamy sunny yellow paint alongside the sponge-painted pink mocha provided dramatic relief. (see header photo)
Redesign: military theme
In lieu of the train theme for his bedroom, I suggested we gear towards a military history theme, since he has so many art projects and souvenirs that lean in that direction.
Since they take up space anyway, and he’s quite the artist, and obviously enjoys everything enough to insist that we move them 1500 miles to Virginia, why not display them?
They look pretty good in the photo below, but it would be amazing if we came up with creative display ideas to make his plain walls interesting. So that’s the goal.
He also has a huge historical hat collection, that we can display on the walls in an interesting way.
Additionally, he has a terrific colorful rock collection that would look great on display in clear cases.
And of course, he needs a new quilt and a good window treatment, of which we are discussing options, now.
Window treatment ideas
Since my son is leaning more baseball theme than military history, I dug out some baseball fabric I had to audition for his window treatment.
The curtain rod came with the room, and my son isn’t wild about it. Nor was I, but it was handy for now.
My son sketched out some ideas which look doable…in all my free time! =)
View from the landing area atop the stairs
Oh, and here’s another view from the landing area.
My son’s newly painted room is to the left, where there is a peek at his tall bookcase, upon which is his Spartan helmet that he made a few years ago.
A top his window we are auditioning fabric for possible window treatments.
To the right is the master suite.
Just to my left is the kids’ bathroom, and behind me next to that is my daughter’s room.
Across from her room is the linen closet, which is where I’m storing my fabric collection.
Meanwhile I’m storing the linens in the appropriate room.
Then next to the linen closet the stairs go down.
It’s sort of a cool loft that’s not a loft, which is very dark.
The walls of this area are lavender grey, sort of dismal. Not as bad as pink mocha though, so we’ll paint these walls a little later.
My daughter’s room is next to paint.
