Before & Afters

When we decided to move Miles into the guest room, the only thing we did was buy a new bedspread. His room has looked like a guest bedroom for 3 years now.

Since then we added his gaming desk and painted his bathroom vanity. We have plans to redo the bathroom, but I don't know when that will happen, so we had to make sure his wall color coordinated with his navy blue vanity. Surprisingly, we did pretty well even though paint colors are not my strong suit. 

It's called Web Gray. It has a blueish tint to me so I like it with the bathroom and lucky enough the bedspread still works.

Carson helped me get the room ready while Miles and Darrin went to a hitting lesson. He took all the outlet covers off and helped me clean the walls and fill the holes. He was very happy to use his toolbox from Granny & Pa. 

I trimmed and Miles came behind me with the first coat. 

He left me after the first coat to go to his girlfriend's house. I painted the second coat while he was gone. I realized how hard of a color it was to paint and what a good job he did. It said it had a one coat guarantee and maybe we should have left it at that. You can see roller marks when the light hits it but overall it's fine.

The end result was exactly what I was going for. I didn't want to paint the furniture, but I wanted to somehow make it look more manly. The color did the trick. 

He's been asking me to move the furniture around, but I was against it. He was right. It fits a lot better like this. 

His gaming desk fits perfectly in this corner. 

Over the last couple weeks, we've finished the decor. We framed some baseball pics from both travel teams. The pictures look small, but they are 14x11 each , so they cover this blank wall well. I can't believe we managed to get these level on the first try. 

I found a cool, and functional, lamp. It's super bright when needed and you can dim it. He also has the bendable light for his schoolwork since he does homework in his bed a lot. 

He's had a white dry erase board in his room for a while. He likes to write quotes and stuff, so I found this clear acrylic. I bought some neon markers thinking they would show up against the paint, but they don't really. Orange does, but black is the best. We also bought some magnetic strips for above his desk so he can change out awards and pictures. 

He is so happy with it and every time I walk in I remember how much I love it too. Next up is Carson's room. He's been told he can have a new room when he's ready to part with around 50 stuffed animals and his little Tykes basketball goal from when he was a toddler. I think it will be a while.