Boys Room Sneaky Peeky and what to do with heirloom pieces.

I've been working like a dog on my son's room: painting walls & furniture, sewing stuff, organizing, etc.  I hope to have the full reveal to share soon, but here's some teasers....

I've got a great idea for these red strips of molding.  Here's hoping what I see in my brain will actually work in reality.

And because the warm weather decided to revisit us for one more blissful week, I demanded asked hubs take apart my younger son's room as well, so I could take over the garage one last time before winter to paint his furniture too. So I've got two boys rooms in the works.  Yes, I'm a crazy person.  Yes, I am covered in paint most of the day whilst checking on math and english assignments. All in a day's work....

You might remember that their furniture is a set of Heywood Wakefield twin beds, 2 dressers and a nightstand that belonged to my Father in Law.  We've used it with all our kids thru the years, and it's gotten pretty beat up.  Because HW furniture is worth a heck of a lot of money these days, I looked into having them redone with the signature 'champagne' finish used when these were made.

How 'bout not.  It was just a wicked amount of money.  So I kept them as is for the last 20 years.  They have a modern vintage feel to them, but honestly, I was tired of working with the dingy, damaged champagne finish.  My choice was either give them to another family member (which I didn't want to do because my own kids have used these for so long), or just bite the bullet and paint them.

I opted to finally paint them.  It was hard putting that first brush stroke on, let me tell ya.  But I'm really happy with them.  Each boy gets 1/2 the set for their own room. One set is red (a mistint form Walmart), the other will get the denim blue color you can see below. These are actually chairs we picked up for $5 from hubby's work when they remodeled their atrium. Their modern curves work great with the vintage pieces.

This is my task for today...spraying each and every piece with the denim blue.  BTW, I found this discontinued color at my Restore for $2 a can.  I bought 14 cans.  It's Rustoleum, so I think that will cover it.*snicker*

Their rooms sit side by side, and will be different colors, but if I ever decide to put the set back together for grandkids (please oh please), it think the red and blue will work perfectly together in the same room again.

If you haven't already linked your kid's rooms to my impromptu linky....please do so!  There's TONS of inspiration down there.  You guys are wicked creative. I'll leave it open for another week or so.

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