{the taking forever... still not finished but making progress boy's room update}

{I'm way annoyed... I just upgraded to the newer version of posting through blogger and I HATE it. Arrrggghhhh! It's giving me all sorts of headaches... can't move the pictures where I want them, can't type in between pictures.. only at the very top or bottom, cant, cant, cant.. Is anyone else frustrated with it too? Just wondering-}

Okay now that I've vented, I feel a little bit better.. but only a little. So, how do you like it so far??? I know I said I was going to take pictures a few weeks ago of the new things I had found for the boys room at Ikea but life happened and here we are. Sorry it took so long.--- I'm still looking for some storage solutions and would love to find some old lockers, the walls are obviously bare and I haven't decided what all is going to accompany them, I'm going to paint their desk a different color, probably white or green like their sheets {haven't decided yet}, the cord on the space orbit light still needs to be attached and ran down the corner of the wall and most likely painted the wall color to blend since I hate cords, and amongst other finishing touches they still need some floor length curtains on the window, but this is it for now and I'm likin' it!


Added Ikea items are: ceiling light fixture, corner orbit projecting light, little martian night lights in window seal, abstract polka dot duvet covers + pillow cases and alien green fitted sheets and big square pillows. Saturday while at Walmart I came across the most perfectly matching orange colored round pillow/throw set on clearance for.. are you ready??? $3.99! Woot!!! They were actually marked down to $7.99 on the sticker which I thought was still worth the buy and then at the register they rang up as three-freakin-ninety-nine!!! I almost jumped for joy and did the moonwalk, but instead I contained my emotions 'til I got them in their room and then I added some screams and squeals too! Isn't the round pillow cute with the dots on the duvet, say YES!

Oh and the gritty little haunted house plug-in is from Bath & Body and guess what??? It doesn't just light up... it FLICKERS!!!!!!!! Doesn't get much better than that, I tell ya! Now run out and get yourself one, or two.. or three... hee hee hee  I know I'm going back for more!

{I think I've found it!}

The bedding for the boys room makeover, that is... picture above is the material of the duvet and sham from this much liked site Design Public, I found from another blog that posted about this other really cool product that they offer. {I'll post about that separately}. 

On Design Public they had really cute sheets with the duvet set but they were orange and with the walls being orange I wanted something a little different, I found these green sheets on Walmart.com and they are only $19.99 a set verses $80.00+. I can live with that!!!

I'm thinking I like this quirky ceiling light fixture from Ikea too! Looks kinda space like, right???

Throw pillows and wall decals also from Design Public! I can't wait to order it all and see it put together in their room. 

This is the Blimp Space Light I've known I wanted to use in the room since the beginning. It's also from Ikea, the boys are not so patiently waiting for this one... they keep asking me everyday when I'm going to get it.

In painting the ceiling navy blue {for the outer space effect} its caused a lack of light in the room, which I already knew it would.. so I want a nice bright ceiling fixture that casts the light outward all over the room instead of down in one spot. I also want to add these wall lamps on the wall by the head of their beds for reading at night {and of course more ambience}. The fun Blimp Space light will be just for fun and then I'll probably add a cool track lighting fixture by a shelf or just add lighting to the shelf itself. 

Ooo, the thing that would just shoot right off the GRITTY scale is if I could somehow drill little holes throughout the ceiling and add little twinkle lights like stars. Think how fun it would be to make the design of one of the constellations, like the big or little dipper. Hmm.. I really need to think of a way to do that, this is going to clog my brainwaves for awhile.. I can just tell!

~sandee.

{sneek peek: boy's room makeover in progress}

Okay, so I FINALLY finished the paint job in the boy's new room.. and I thought I'd post a picture! I'm very pleased with the way it turned out, the orange is so vibrant and the navy blue stripe and ceiling were just the look I was going for. Keep in mind though, the room itself is STILL at a very incomplete stage. Now it's time to start looking for the bedding, accessories, lighting, curtains, and to decorate the place. In the meantime, they are still using their old airplanes bedding which is really bugging me because it so doesn't match... AND I'm not to sure about the color of the table that I got for them to build legos, do projects/homework on, now that it's in the newly painted room.. so I now possibly have myself yet ANOTHER project on my list of "to-do's" to change the color of their table. If I do end up wanting to change it, that will be the last thing I do. We'll see... 

The table I got for inside the corner to create that Pottery Barn type setup with the beds works quite perfectly though, so that put a smile on my face and the kids are totally loving it too!!! They think their new room ROCKS and it's not even near being finished yet. The whole set up will look much better once I get the bedding I want, with extra pillows and a bed skirt so you can't see the bottom frame of the bed. One step at a time though, right... 

I love these glass jars for storing things, aren't they gritty??? This is Marcus' rock collection, he keeps a little magnifying glass in it so he can look at all the crystals and variations in the different rocks. This is sitting as a center piece on their table for now. I still need to get a big set of shelves to display and store a lot of their stuff too.

 

.. And here is one of those two old schoolhouse chairs I was so fortunate to run across to accompany their table. LoVe them...

I have loads of ideas running through my head and am hoping to find everything I want to incorporate into their room and for good deals. Right now the bedding is giving me a bit of a headache, because I've only found two sets that I would really consider and one doesn't come with all the pieces, and they are both much more pricey than I would like. My search goes on.. if I absolutely can't find anything else than I guess I'll just have to delay my instant gratification and save for them. Arrgghhh.... 

~sandee.

{update: moving boys to a different room}

Okay.. the orange paint is finally finished!!! It took longer than I'd hoped because we had so many other things going on this week and I needed my man to help me tape off the line for the navy stripe along the top of the wall. I can't wait to post pictures of it, but I want to wait until I finish painting the top of the wall/ceiling navy and get a few things moved into place. I'm sure there will be numerous updates because I won't be able to acquire everything I want for their room all at once. Speaking of everything I want for their room... I found some more rooms of inspiration through one of my favorite catalogs Land of Nod. Notice the orange & blue together throughout, LoVe it! I'm really liking this solar system bedding a lot... I'm thinking it would possibly be a better choice for the boys, it doesn't seem as juvenile as the one I first saw at Company Kids, although it's really cute & would work too.

Aren't these pieces of vintage wall art so nostalgic and gritty to say the least.. I'm pretty sure I might have incorporate these into the decor of the room.-

{top of the project priority list}

Moving the boys to a different room: 

• some may remember my post on my personal blog this time last year about my thoughts of switching the boys room and trying to figure out a way to create this fabulous space saving bed set-up without buying it for the astronomical Pottery Barn price. WELL... I think I might have figured something out!!! {mine won't include the great storage underneath, at least for now.. but the basic set-up is better than nothin'}. I'll post pictures as soon as I get it all put together in the room, but first I'm...
• repainting: I was going to do a tan color but then decided to go with more color {does that surprise anybody}, then I was going to do a green with a navy blue stripe on the top continuing onto the ceiling {like space} but then I didn't like the green so I've officially decided on ORANGE and we are all LOVING it so far. It has me wondering why I've never done an orange room in my house as of yet... It will still have the navy blue stripe & ceiling. Inspiration for painting the room this way came from this bedding & this gritty light that I plan on incorporating into the room.
• so fortunate: I was also WAY excited to get two of those OLD SCHOOLHOUSE CHAIRS from the photo below. There is a lovely blog I follow daily and about a month ago she posted that she had bought six of these chairs at a furniture consignment store and found that she only needed four. She said to email her if you were interested in the other two. I ended up being the first to email her and the BEST part of the whole thing is that she gave them to me for FREE!!! Now I was able to mark off finding two unique chairs for the other table I'd found for them to sit at and build legos, do projects, etc... 

~sandee.