We finally finished making over the nursery into a shared room for Christian & Gavin! It took about 2 weeks, but I'm so happy with the results! Since Gavin isn't quite ready to transition to a big boy bed, he is still sleeping in the crib in what will be little Finnick's nursery. Christian is beyond excited about his new bunk bed, and keeps asking when Gavin can sleep in there, too. Finn will be sleeping in our bedroom until at least 4 months old, so we have a little while before we have to transition Gavin...which is good, because I'm SO not ready for that yet! I'm not sure when we'll start on the nursery, because I'm "nested out" for now!
The boys' room was a lot of work...more than I had originally anticipated. I decided I wanted to do a board & batton look in the room, which meant putting up a chair rail, vertical trim & painting the lower half of the wall. The whole idea behind this is that the higher gloss paint on the bottom half will be much easier to clean up with dirty, grimy boy hands living in there.
Dustin hung the chair rail & trim and I caulked & painted...teamwork at it's best! This actually would have been a super easy project, except that we ran into a paint color problem. The trim in the entire house is antique white, which I've never been completely in love with. So I just assumed that I could paint that antique white on the bottom of the chair rail and all would look fine. Unfortunately, I started painting, stepped back, and realized it looked awful. All of the furniture is bright white. The blinds are bright white. The antique white looked horrible. So we had two choices...tear down the chair rail and trim & leave the walls plain, or repaint all of the trim, doors & baseboards in the bedroom a bright white.
Well as you can imagine, once I get my mind set on something, I do NOT want to go back...so off to Home Depot I went to purchase a bright white paint. Painting baseboards and doors is NOT fun. I was pretty much cussing and grumbling the entire time. However, I am so pleased with the results and very happy we decided to go that route. Of course, now I want all the rest of the trim in the house bright white, but that's a HUGE project that we will never, ever do. So I can just enjoy the one room of pretty white trim.
So enough chit-chat...onto the photos!
Here is a before...
Gavin was quite the helper. ;)
Hanging chair rail & vertical trim.
We got the bunk bed put together just in time for Christian's birthday. We don't have a second mattress yet for Gavin, and we're really in no hurry either!
And the finished product!
Here is a complete before & after...Gavin's nursery & now a shared boy's room.
I love these leaning shelf towers! I got them on sale at Target and I think they're perfect storage. Plus I put them together all by myself. ;)
Another before & after.
This table we got from IKEA and I just put a coat of stain on it.
And last but not least, the closet! Having 2 boys move into 1 room means I need a lot of storage, so we got this awesome shelving unit from IKEA and attached clothing rods to it...lots of storage & looks good, too!
Funny little story though, Dustin installed the shelf in the middle of the closet while the laundry basket was still in the closet. And the first day I went to do laundry...well, the basket is now a permanent fixture in the closet, because it doesn't fit in between the shelf and the closet door! And it's a metal basket, so it won't bend. We cracked up laughing when we realized what he did.
But that's it! The boy's are loving the new room and so far, no accidents from bunk bed. Knock on wood. Now that I say that, Christian is sure to fall out tonight. :)
Thanks for reading!
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