The Kids Rooms

I'll beg for forgiveness now for the poor quality of photos, but being sick does nothing for my already shaky hands. And I've forgotten my "real" camera on the island twice now, so I can't rely on it to compensate for my poor skills.

While the kids were gone for 8 days, Mike and I had grand plans for the kids to come back to Extreme Home Makeover-style bedrooms. But Mike ended up working A LOT of overtime, we ended up crabbing A LOT, we squeezed a date or two into our week, and I had to make multiple trips to Bellingham for various appointments. The next thing we knew, the kids were due back!
So the girls' rooms didn't get the paintjob we (or they) had hoped for, but everyone seemed tickled with the transformations (and no I didn't do before pictures because their rooms were pigsty's before).

First up: Brady! His room was two shades of light blue before; his is the only room we got painted. Our first plan was to do cool Nautica stripes on the walls. With the amount of time we had, we decided a nice light-khaki was the right color palate ;) There is going to be blue and yellow corner shelves installed, but there was an incident with dry-time and sticking-to-surfaces problems; I'll be sanding and repainting the shelves in the near future.


Victim of the shaky-hand... My mom got Brady this old school map while whe was in Bakersfield and we finally got it up on the wall. We kind of worked his room around this theme and I'm really happy with the whole concept.

Natalie's room came with purple walls, and we're still working on what to do with them. She wanted a panda bear theme, which is easier said than done! I found a few panda bear items, then went black and white for the rest. I also went to Costco.com and found a huge library of images and found a panda bear that I had printed poster-size that I'm going to hang over her bed (I just have to get to Michaels to get a frame, and going there with 3 children just doesn't appeal to me).

I went cheap-o and repurposed a bunch of matching frames in her room by removing the back and just leaving the glass (I did this in Makenzie's room too), and adhearing wall vinyl onto the glass. I did this because our house is textured with 'heavy knockdown' and is not vinyl-friendly.

Makenzie's room is a sea of pink. And she wanted a Hello Kitty room. The pink seemed an easy start point, though I still plan on toning down some of the PINK of it all... I put little Hello Kitty bows on her shadow boxes, and lined her lampshade with the bows. I don't think there's any question what theme was trying to be achieved in this room! A world-wide marketed icon makes decorating easy!

Attack of the blury hand again.