Room Tour

Two posts ago I posted about my middle punk climbing a post in his bedroom. I thought I would follow that up with a tour of their room. My oldest and middle boy share a room. From day one I had always envisioned a loft in their bedroom, the vaulted ceiling provided unused space so I thought it would be perfect. Lineman was NOT very enthused about the whole idea. However, I must be mighty convincing because before long we spent an entire weekend making the loft. The loft measures 6 foot by 8 foot with 6 feet of clearance below. As far as paint is concerned... I painted FOREVER with those bright colors! I enjoyed painting before my baby was born, now I would cringe at the idea of him getting into paint or wet walls.

This side next to the window is our middle punks side. I think he has about the best view since he has an island out his window that has pines and aspens. Maybe we should have traded rooms with them.

A few years ago we were at a motocross track just having some fun. As we were leaving we passed a trash can with two tires that were being thrown out. I yelled at Lineman to stop, I proceeded to get out and grab the two dump bound tires. Lineman looked at me like I had lost my ever loving mind. Well, I took those two tires and cleaned them up really good. Then I Armor All-ed them and we drilled them to the wall. I thought it was pretty creative and frugal.

Here is the other tire. I used to have posters and pictures inside them but I'm trying to de-clutter with selling the house. I absolutely love that wood toy holder there. It steps up giving dimension and it holds different size boxes that slide in. I keep the cars in one, blocks in another and so on. It is from Ikea.

Another little corner has some motocross and soccer trophies and pictures from a race.

This is my oldest sons side of the room, directly under the loft. We added an adjustable (or dim-able) light for reading. The quilt was made by my grandmother. The quilting portion of it looks like race cars, let me tell you she is one talented quilter! The posters are just out of motocross magazines, again, frugal =)

This is upstairs in the loft. I have baskets to organize the toys which still gives them lots of room to play up there. I'll be honest, it is usually messy up there but with selling the house we've kept it pretty clean. It needs vacuumed but that's one downfall, I never seem to get up there to vacuum. The space from the floor of the loft to the ceiling is enough for an adult to sit comfortably so there is plenty of room for the kids.

One problem I have is with the main support post for the loft.......
I have all the kids' measurements recorded on it. Do you think the next owners would mind if we removed the post when we move? Naaa, didn't think so.