Boys' Rooms

Brian and I have decided that we're going to move Carter to the extra bedroom at the end of the hall (the one that shares the jack and jill bathroom with his current room) and keep the nursery a nursery for the new baby.

We're hoping to give Carter a little more of a big boy room, though we don't think he'll be ready for a regular bed yet. So I think we'll get another convertible crib that will function as a crib and a toddler bed. He'll also need a wardrobe or dresser and a bookshelf. I think we're going to also get him a table with a couple of chairs (yes, the room is very large - 15.5 ft by 11 ft plus a 8 ft by 3 ft dormer).

I'm planning on getting Carter new bedding so we can start over with colors. I've been searching the internet for ideas the last few days because I don't want to have plain solid colored walls, but I also don't want to go too crazy and overwhelming with stripes or circles or something else. Here are a couple of pictures of a paint job I really love. It's a little modern, but I really like it. And I'm not against copying other people at all!



Who knows if this is what we'll actually do, but it's my favorite so far. We'd like to start painting in the next few weeks.

As far as the nursery goes, we'll probably also repaint it and do new bedding so it doesn't feel like Carter's room anymore. We'll keep all the furniture the same and in the same places though. We're currently leaning towards doing the paint something like this (similar colors too) ...


I'm going to continue to scour the internet for ideas for the rest of the week, but hopefully we'll make our final decisions soon!

There are only two other rooms then that haven't been painted since we moved in. The jack and jill bathroom between the boys' rooms and our guest bathroom. While looking for bedroom ideas, I came across this bathroom and I think we're going to copy it for our guest bathroom ...


Hopefully they'll be some pictures to post of our actual rooms soon! I worked on moving all the books out of the extra bedroom today. We had 2 large bookcases of books and I spent most of the day (when Carter let me) reorganizing all the bookcases in our house and purging what we don't need. We were supposed to have a playdate with Caitlyn today but poor thing has a cold so Amy had to cancel this morning. Hopefully she'll be feeling better soon so we can get together! Amy is also pregnant and about 8 weeks behind me.