As you saw in the
previous post, the boys’ room is finally done. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments. We are all finding an excuse
to hang ‘round in the room to enjoy the newly renovated surrounds. The
abomination that was previously their room… is now one of the nicest spaces in
the Sow’s Ear.
And it couldn’t have happened without the vouchers
Masters Home Improvements generously threw our way. There is no way we would’ve been
able to complete the room this year given all the other work we’ve undertaken around
here. Thank you Masters.
We are so pleased to have the room renovated and the boys are thrilled to have a bedroom to be proud of. This post will give you the details of some of the items we used to decorate the room (all the hyperlinks will take you to the
Masters products we used).
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Renovated boy's bedroom in a Queenslander house.
We wanted a cleaner more minimal look for this space using a white on white colour scheme for the walls, windows and ceiling. |
The room was sanded to remove the very worst of the flaky
paint. Jason replaced the window architraves so that they were consistent to
the other rooms and he also removed the picture rail which was not original to
the house. We replaced all the damaged window fittings too. He bought some reliable new
safety
goggles for the deconstruction phase, but I think he just wanted to complement his hi-vis
uniform.
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| Beautiful ceiling rose has come up nicely. Vintage Danish glass pendant was purchased second-hand |
We spent a hefty portion of the room budget on paint and
painting
accessories which we purchased in-store at Masters. The room is painted in
our signature Dulux Acrylic Wash n Wear Vivid i.e. straight outta the tin. It
works for us and makes a great palette for a crisp looking interior - one coat of undercoat and two top coats on all the walls, doors and windows.
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| Freshly painted white walls are a perfect match with framed art work |
We framed some vintage Cuban movie posters we had using the
Masters
white timber picture frames. The frames come with a mat board already to go, making them an easy and cheerful option to display prints and photos.
One of the main problems with the room was the lack of
hanging and shelf space. We would trip over school and library bags which were strewn
across the doorway. Now the bags have a handy place to reside on a port rack near the
door. We bought the
black
contemporary satin hook board to keep their bags off the floor. No excuses for bags to be anywhere else now!
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The boys have a place to hang their bags when they enter the room
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| Some stylish floating shelves to display their treasures. Attractive baskets make for good sneaky toy storage under their beds. |
For some reason, we have a penchant for
floating shelves. We installed two for the boys to display their collected items, as they are into figurines and models. It is also handy for their books.
Another big change we instituted was
a brutal cull of the boys’ toys in their room. We’ve rationed them to a couple
of
square
storage baskets for their special things. It’s attractive storage for under
the bed. Their bigger toys are under the house now.
The boys have been using the room for nearly two weeks and so far they are keeping it tidy. Hooray! (It might be a different story when they are back at school and kindy though...!)
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| Gloss white doors make the built-in cupboards disappear in the room. |
The built-in cupboards were also repainted. From brown to
white, it looks like a completely different room. Adding
new
door knobs improved the overall look too.
I also bought some new coat hangers for their built-in cupboards. They store all their shoes in the cupboards, as they already had shoe racks. A cull of their clothes and shoes occurred while we were renovating the room too.
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| Sleek door knobs bring a new edge to the doors. These knobs are my favourite and are similar to the Arne Jacobsen designed Vola knobs. |
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| The architectural glass and decorative architraves need only the simplest of window treatments. The blinds are always up during the day. |
We don’t have any window coverings in the Sow’s Ear but we
thought it would be prudent to get some block-outs for this bedroom and the early rising
occupants. The boys’ bedroom gets the morning sun! The white
Roomaker
Oscar roller blinds were by far my favourite, discreet and unobtrusive for
the lovely coloured windows.
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| Neutral rug adds warmth to an all white room. It will also match any bedding we may end up choosing down the track. |
I liked the range of affordable wool rugs Masters had online and thought it would be a good way to give warmth to the room. The rugs must be popular as most of them were sold out when I went to order it. The
Jora rug comes in a fairly neutral tone blending well into whole scheme. A nice vibrant
green rubbish bin is a practical way to inject some colour into the all white room.
Most of the decorator items were chosen and paid for online,
which I then organised to pick up at the Masters Tingalpa store when it was
ready. This was such a convenient way to organise a bulk purchase, as it meant
that I could be in an out of the store when I had Son#3 with me. Quick and
easy. And friendly!
Obviously we didn’t purchase every single thing from Masters
to renovate the room, but we did try to use as much as possible to get bang for
our buck. We had a lot of the timber and brass window hardware already and we made
use of a lot of the furniture and soft furnishing items we had in other parts
of the Sow’s Ear.(I love using the old Italian military blankets on their beds, with crisp white sheets and their favourite cushions. The blankets are also something they can keep when they are older.)
With vintage pieces, op-shop finds and
Masters Home Improvement purchases, I think we’ve made a fairly attractive room which the
boys just love.
P.S
The winnner of our Masters $500 voucher giveaway JenJen QLD is planning to spruce up her home after it had been rented out when they were overseas. She said there was a bit of damage from the tenants, so the vouchers will be put to good use.
