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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Boys' Room Remodel - Part 2

As you know, we remodeled my middle son's room to accomodate both him and his younger brother.  He wasn't too happy about it, but with their older sister moving back in, we needed the room.  He was more agreeable knowing it would entale a remodel to upgrade his room from a baseball boy's room to a teen hangout.

IKEA was a big help in this endeavor.  We had everything except for their beds. 


I sold their old loft beds and started thinking platform for both form, function and space saving.  Sears or JCPenney, can't remember which, had the perfect beds, but wanted an arm, a leg, and my first born to ship it.  So, looking around, I found out that Wally World aka Wal Mart sells the exact same bed online and ships free to their stores!  Yes! 

Typically, I'm not a Wally World fan.  Sure, they have great prices, and I shop there for little things and some groceries, but certainly not furniture.  I have to say - I'm impressed.  The beds we got were Sauder brand.  Not high quality, but something to last these transitional teen years.  They assembled exactly per instructions and were really well designed.  Who knew?  So, here's the latest addition to our morphing teen room - beds! 


Last but not least, we have to figure out what to put on the walls.  This will be a challenge as each boy is VERY different and has his own ideas of what is cool and what isn't.  No rush - the walls can wait...



We're trying to avoid the whole poster thing, but what else is there?  I've seen some of these wall decals, but do they really work?  How do they look?  Are they expensive?  I'll put my mind to worrying about that next week.  What do your young teen boys have on their walls?

6 comments:

  1. I love the wall decals, if I could ever figure out how to use my camera I would take a picture of my boys room. My boys shar a room and since one is 12 and the other 6 they have very diffrent taste. The decals are great, they come off very easily too. Some are very expensive, Pottery Barn has some that are between 40 and over 100. I found mine at Michaels. (my little one just turned 3 when we first did the room so I had dinnosours for him and a simple black guitar and music notes for my then 9) I also found some at Target. ( little guy now has "cars" decals, but we will proably switch again) My sister happend to be at Target one day when they were having a great sale and she got a decale of the outline of NYC for my nephews room, it looks great!! I love what you did for your boys, the room looks great! I hope they enjoy it!

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  2. Kathy - I remember seeing some at Target. May have to go over there and look again. Those online seem very pricey. Michael's, huh?, I hadn't thought of that either. :-)

    April

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  3. My teens have weapons on their walls...funny right? They like to collect swords from Vision Forum and they have a wrack to hold their pellet and air soft guns. They have XL Bunk Beds and 2 Big book shelves and a window and two doors, so there isn't really too much wall space, but all available space has a weapon hanging on it. lol

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  4. for wall decals, go here www.whatisblik.com They have lots of cool designs and are easy to put up.

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  5. Mrs. Taffy, You should see my oldest boy's room. Swords and knives everywhere. He's got them all over the walls as well. Boys and their "toys" - lol.

    April

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  6. Joy, Thanks! I'll check it out! April

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