Ben’s room is coming along … slowly. It’s always hard fitting in home improvement projects during the few precious hours you have at home at night during the week, but we are managing!
The room is painted – I really like the color and am so happy we picked it! And we’ve also moved most of his furniture back in there. The old dresser remains in my office. I keep trying to get rid of it and no one is biting. A shame really, it’s very cute! The new storage pieces, from IKEA’s STUVA line, are working out great. He’s got so much more storage than he did before this. And as soon as we can get some things hung on the wall, I can get some stuff cleared out of his closet too.
The yet-to-do list includes:
- get carpet fixed (scheduled for Monday)
- rout the baseboard
- sand and oil the baseboard
- install the baseboard
- cut the wood for the bed
- sand and poly the wood for the bed
- assemble the bed
- put it all together
- hang photos, bulletin board, light
- install wall decal?
One of the final decisions I’m making is about putting a wall decal behind his bed (like this one or this one or maybe this one or this one). Since it’s a large wide-open (green) space and the bed is treehouseesque, I’m thinking about putting a large tree decal behind his bed. Too much? I can’t decide.