Tuesday 10 March 2015

A Room for a Birthday

We've recently started to put together the nursery for our latest little addition to the McWoodstree family. There's still a few little things to tweak before it's finished and I'll pop it up. It made me realise that the last bedroom we did was for O almost 2 years ago. Where has the time gone?

We had made the decision that for his second birthday we would buy him a big boy bed, mainly because he'd discovered how to climb out of his cot. Instead of just buying a bed we thought it would be even more special to move him out of the nursery and into his very own brand new big boy bedroom.

The initial inspiration came from the curtains. I had made these (my very first attempt) for the nursery when he was a baby. These set the colour scheme for the room. I took a left over swatch of the material off to Bunnings to colour match the paint so it would be an exact match.

For the lettering it was as easy as searching online for a font I liked. I can't remember what the font was, but my favourite website for free fonts is fontspace. I printed the letters out and traced them onto the wall before I painted the. If I were to do it again I'd paint them in white first before painting the colour over the top. Though I think it turned out pretty well anyway.


Of course the room has developed and grown over the last almost 2 years. Mum's beautiful quilt has been finished and completed my vision. We've also added an Ikea toy holder as somewhere to keep the millions of his stuffed toys and a rainbow mosquito net that was handed down to him from his cousin. The most recent addition has been the shelves as somewhere else to keep some of his more special toys and all important money box.




I'm now contemplating buying a big decal of either a pirate ship, robot or dinosaurs to go on the blue wall. This is the best thing about the room that we initially created - whilst it had enough character it is still such a blank canvas to be able to add things to as his likes change and he grows up. We started with a Thomas doona cover for his 2nd birthday, but his favourite characters now are Octonauts and half the Marvel universe. Luckily it's pretty easy to change.

A
xoxoxo