Mikey's Room Redo

It's certainly not finished, but is really coming along.  Keith and Mikey hung the maps and the clocks.  That's why they are centered and leveled and straight.  I think they look amazing.  I did the lettering yesterday.  I remembered I had 2 alphabets of vinyl letters under my bed that I bought for another project years ago.  It was good he insisted on just "LA" and "DC". 

I moved the "headboard" in and ironed on the laminate trim around the front where we sawed off the former computer desk.  It stained well and nobody would ever know it hadn't always been a headboard.  I love the color of the walls now that we have some of the furniture in and I think the comforter and sheets he picked are perfect.  His telescope finally has the room it needed to look appropriate.

One of the most time consuming things was helping him build the models.  We did the Eiffel Tower, the Space Needle and the Westminster Castle.  They are definitely not for young children.  I wanted to get the Statue of Liberty too, but we'll see.  The other surprise is that we had to stop the clocks.  Even after messing with batteries and making all five tick in sync, it was sooo loud.  They look great though, right?

This is the wall opposite the bed.  The dresser is to the left of here, but it doesn't have knobs or accessories yet.  The is the only Nerf gun rack that I know of in existence.  I'm happy with the way it turned out.  I still need to touch up the black stripe on the moulding frame, but other than that it's done.  Keith mounted it for me on 2 pieces of hardwood 1x into the studs so that it would stick out far enough from the wall to be able to take the hooks in and out when Mikey wants to reconfigure.  My plan was to paint the outlines of the guns on it in black, but then we thought about how that would affect future purchases of new models and decided not to make it permanently labeled.

I took a bunch of photos while we were going along but I'm too lazy to do a real blog tutorial.  It wasn't very complicated.  They cut the  pegboard for me at Home Depot--3x5.  I bought the fake-wood moulding and mitered it and glued it on with liquid nails.  I  was going to use wood  pegs with screws from the back, but the power tool hooks were perfect and $1.99 a  piece, so I went that way.  TaDa.



I asked Mikey if he wanted a framed photo of Ian for his room and he said yes, but not one of them together because he didn't want to be sad every time he was in there.  He isn't anxious to move in.  I hope when he comes back from science camp next week and it's totally finished, he'll be ready.  We'll see.