Hubby is gone on business so I have the whole house ripped apart. What was I thinking??? ARGH!! I started by just wanting to put new shelves into Tommy’s room. Well Tommy has been asking for a while to have his room repainted as it is till decorated as his winnie the Pooh nursery. He is a big boy now!! So with a very heavy heart I painted over the winnie the pooh murals on his walls. They were a gift from my neighbor for my baby shower. It was amazing. I was young and didn’t have much money when Josh was born so I didn’t have a nursery for him. We actually shared a room. So with Tommy my hubby blessed me with the dream come true nursery. I loved it!!
I will add pictures later as they are one Josh’s computer and he is still sleeping. Hubby took my camera to Memphis with him so I don’t have it and I can’t get Josh’s camera to let me upload the pictures onto my computer.
THE BIG BOY ROOM:
Tommy requested a blue room with a Pirate theme. So that is what we are doing. I came up with some great ideas and am excited about completing this project. One entire wall in Tommy’s room will be floor to ceiling bookcases. He has a very small room and no storage! So he will only have a few things in his room now all toys and books must fit onto the shelf system. And when he no longer in this room the shelves will be my library. I bought some quality Ikea shelves so that I will be able to use them years from now.
Don’t ask to see a picture of my living room right now!! ARGH!! ALl of Tommy’s toys and furniture are in the living room. you can’t even walk. I have to get his room all put back together today. I am finished painting I think. I painted one coat of tinted primer and one coat of paint. I think it is pretty good.
This fabric was the catalyst to the wall color. Tommy’s walls are painted the color of the water in the fabric above. This might cause a problem for what I want to do for a mural, but we will see. I found this great website that sells paint by number murals to put on walls. (you can find anything on the Internet, right??) I plan on painting a treasure map on his wall by his bed.
Doesn’t that look cool!! This might be stretching my abilities, but I want to give it a try. I used to be pretty artist years ago. I might have painted the walls too dark of a color to paint the mural so it might take alot of coats or I can paint white primer in the area I need to put the mural. I am not sure I will figure that out when I am at that point.
If the map works out ok, Tommy would like to me paint the Pirates only Sign as well. 
I also want to paint some letter and spell Tommy above the door. I am going to try to paint something similair to these. There are too expensive. They wanted $20.00 a letter, which is CRAZY!!
I am not sure which fabric I will pick for the curtains. I am afraid if I use the blue fabric that there will be too much blue in the room. I plan on painting his little knick knack shelf black with red pegs. So maybe one of these fabrics would be a better choice.
What do you think????
NEW XANGA MEMBER………….
Hey everyone I am so happy to introduce you to my niece, Sus. She just started a blog and is new to xanga. Stop by and say hi! It is so nice to have a niece you can call your friend. She is a wonderful mother of two little boys and an elementary school teacher. During my vacation I was able to spend alot of time with them. I used to care for her alot when she was little so it was so wonderful to see her parenting her sons. It was so very nice and now I can continue talk with her and hear about the boys! And she even likes to cook!!!
Stop by and visit, samnsus!! I hope she will enjoy blogging and the xanga community!
I am off to pull off the painter’s tape, scrub Tommy’s floors and start putting his room back together. This will probably be an all day event!
You said you were going to IKEA? Well, every pirate needs a treasure chest! treasure chest
Instead of pirate/jolly roger curtains, what about red/white vertical stripes? Maybe make them ragged at the bottom? That’s pirate-esque, right? redwhite
Oh, it all looks so good! I say have fun with the curtains, do something creative on top of a plain color…maybe a rope net overt the top or something like that. That room just looks too fun!
That is such a cute room! I love it!
Instead of that curtain fabric (which IS cute) why not try something creative like a rope net over plain fabric, or one of those pull down blinds with a big jolly roger painted on the canvas…
That is going to be such a fun room.
what fun I think it will look fabulous I really like the idea hope he enjoys it when your all done!!!
very fun room Tommy will have. I love decorating and have always done something with a theme in my kids rooms all these years.
I love the paint color and the mural will be so cute. I think red bedding with touches of black and blue like in pillows would look great with the larger print skull fabric.
How neat, I think it will be very cool! 😉
Have fun!
I love the black fabric…both of the last two. You could use them both in some way.
You’re inspiring me. After being gone on our “mini-vacation,” our house is a pit!
Shari
What a cute idea…but it makes ME tired just thinking about it! With the murals on the wall, I think I’d go with less “busy” curtains and bedspreads, but I’ve never been a very good decorator, so you probably don’t want my advice!!!