Room remodel



Shaw is getting all growed up ril gud and it was time to remodel his room from a boys room to a young man's room. Baby blue is gone. Shaw picked out the candy apple red with black accents. 

When he was born, we bought a pretty nice crib that could be reconfigured to a toddler day-bed with one of the sides taken off and then with some added bed rails , the sides become a headboard and a footboard for a full size youth bed.  We finally got rid of that and we'll build a new frame and headboard to go with the full size mattress and box spring.  For now, it's just on the floor under the new shelves.  The crib is on the back porch.  I'm gonna build it in each of the three ways and take a pic and sell it on Craigslist.    

I insisted on keeping the white boards and chair rail below in an effort to keep the room from getting too dark.  I had suggested, and Shaw liked, the idea of a black/red checkerboard pattern but once the red was in, I feared that a straight-up checker board pattern with alternating red and black would be way too much.  This still gives the feel of a racing garage or something but without getting too dark.  An old chair was cleaned up and re-purposed and painted black and it seems to fit right in. 

Notice that the closet is now a desk.  We removed the doors and added a desk top and some more practical shelves for the new purpose.  We also made a consious decision to forego a traditional hanging rod for clothes.  We live in Arizona and most people only need one coat and a couple of hoodie sweatshirts.  Since he's coming up on his teenage years, I figured a suit or two and 3 or 4 button down shirts would be just fine.  Notice he has a foot and a half of rod on the right of his new shelving.  The shelving is removable so that if there is anything that is taller than 8 inches that needs to be stored or displayed, he can remove a shelf or two. 

We moved to this house almost 6 years ago and Shaw lived in baby blue in this room. It should last him another 6 years in red and black to get him through his teenage years.  Enjoy the new room, Shaw.