Jack's Room

Soon after we bought our house, Jack's room was painted big boy blue.  He was three and a half and he wanted something any three year old would love: the ocean.  With a volcano!  We did ocean and sky all over his room with some fish and a volcano thrown in for good measure.
I have a tidy 7 year old boy.  Envy me.
And for some reason I gave into his request to let him paint the fish for the mural.  It never materialized.  Lesson learned.  Anyway, here's how it looked in various stages (at one point the kids all shared a room and this became the play room).
pictures from when it was the play room
playroom storage area.  It wasn't a good idea and didn't last long.  But you can see the volcano behind everything.
Four years later he wants something "cool".  I want something I wont need to paint again for at least 4 years.  So we went to the paint store and agreed on a light grey color

It looks darker because of the window light. 
It's true what they say about light colors making a room feel bigger.  And while I'll never go back to "apartment white" -you know that dirty whitish color that seems to dominate most apartments-, I am getting sold on the idea of lighter colors.
The plan is to add some stencils if I can find anyone with a Cricut machine (anyone?) and to change the mural once I get the spring gardening done.  I'm REALLY excited to do this mural.  At first I was thinking a Periodic Table since he's really into physics right now, but that would be a LOT of tedious work. So I went to Pinterest to get ideas.  I liked this one (since he also likes geography:
Source: marthastewart.com via Kristi on Pinterest

But then I found this an knew it would be perfect!
Source: irreverentcollective.com via Kristi on Pinterest

We introduced him to Calvin and Hobbes last fall and he really wants a Calvin and Hobbes mural now.  Deep Breath. I think I can do this!  Something like this would be easy with only a handful of colors needed.  We're still deciding exactly which one to do and combing through the books to find the right one.
I'm in the process of doing Jock's closet as well.  It's slow going because of the nice spring weather (I'm outside most of the day now), but I've already been able to eliminate the need for one bookcase.  I'm torn about the one on the right above.  It's not fancy or nice or anything, but my grandpa built it for me when I was a little girl.  I'd love to get to where each child only has a bed and a dresser as room furniture, but it's hard to let go of sentimental stuff.  If you've been able to do it, let me know what you did!

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