For almost a year and a half I have had no clue what to do with the boys room. The room is rather small and when you add 2 cribs in there, it is even smaller and crowded. So my dilemma (well 1 of 2 dilemmas) has been how to arrange the cribs that optimizes the space and gives them more room to play in there, especially now that they are older and playing A LOT more in there. Oh how nice it will be when they are old enough to move them into much smaller, toddler beds…and then bunk beds – but that’s another story for another day! Anyway, back to my dilemma, I have tried probably 3 different options on how the cribs are arranged. I’ve had them end to end on the same wall, the cribs on opposite walls from each other and now in an L shape in the corner. I think the L shape has worked the best as far as optimizing the space in the room, but the least aestheticly pleasing – I’ll just have to live with it.
So I have figured out what to do with the cribs, now onto dilemma #2 – the walls. We had this really cute tree decal that I put on the wall when the boys were itty bitty, but one of them decided to pull them down one day during their “nap”. Well I moved some things around and got that wall taken care of, it has their names in wooden letters on the wall. But there was still this big blank wall staring at me every time I walked into the room. It was driving me crazy because I had no clue what to do.
I was walking in Hobby Lobby one day and saw some of those vinyl lettering phrases and thought, that would be cool…so I found one that Jonathan and I really liked for their room. I came home and put it up – I loved it! The only problem is that our walls are textured and the paint we used on the walls is a semi gloss. Put those 2 together and vinyl letting does NOT stick to the wall. I was back to square one…..or was I? Since I really liked the phrase that I found, I decided to trace the letters and then paint them on the wall, viola!
If you know me, you know that when I decide to do something, I want it done yesterday. Well, the optimal time to do something like this is when the boys are sleeping. The boys sleep in the room I am painting…
So, it took me about 1-2 weeks to get it all painted. Once the letters were all done I added a few stars to it and then got some pictures printed that we had taken of the boys to put around the phrase. It turned out great!
I am in love with it and its something that can stay on the boys’ wall for a while and won’t have to be changed when they get a “big boy” room.
Here is what the wording alone looked like:
And, here it is with all the pictures around it:
Would your boys sleep together in a twin bed? We had two kids in one (very small) room for a while and our daughter had bunkbeds and our son was still in a crib. Once he was about 18 months old we moved him to the bottom bunk and put one of those bed rails on it. There were many times that we found both kids sleeping together on the bottom bunk with space to spare. The other suggestion I have, Ikea has a loft bed that is smaller than a twin. My sister has one for her two kids. One sleeps on top (it’s about 4 ft off the floor) and the other sleeps on a mattress underneath. It’s not really a bunk bed but it works out perfectly for them since their room is really tiny. Or if you get two of the little loft beds, you can store books and toys underneath and they can play in “forts”.
And the real reason I was commenting….I love the wall. Very cute.
Love the wall!! Did you paint their room before you did it? The wall looks a different color from what I remember. Looks awesome. Haha – love your comment about wanting everything done yesterday -so true!
Thanks! The wall color is still the same – I used a flash so it made the color look a little different.
Haha, thanks! I think Hayden would very much dislike sleeping in the same twin bed as Ian…he likes his space. We have seen those loft beds at Ikea, they are definitely a possibility.