Henry's Big Boy Room

Before-as a guest room

Sandi was very gracious to transform our guest room into a big boy room for Henry! She offered to come and paint it for us, any way we could dream up. After lots of deliberations (including adding a red stripe to the scheme somehow), we decided on blue and white stripes around the room. She came down and did all of the measuring, taping and painting, and voila...we got this great result...I love it and Henry LOVES his new room. (She even attempted to stripe the closet! However, we have some old plaster walls still remaining in this house and when she peeled the tape from the closet walls it peeled some plaster off with it. She decided to just paint the bottom below the chair-rail in the closet blue and leave the top white. It's a cute closet!) She did a great job in the room and we're so thankful for the blessing of her help. Patrick was thrilled to have something done without him having to do it!!! (This may surprise everyone, but I don't usually step up to the handyman jobs around the house.)

Yesterday we really started putting things together in there. Patrick picked up Henry's bed and I assembled it with the spare set of sheets that we got for him. We still haven't put up the bed frame, I think we're going to leave it low for now until he gets used to sleeping on a big bed. We also ordered bedding that should be here in a week or two, and we have decorations to hang on his walls. I think we're going to get all of his clothes moved into his dresser and closet in there and get the decorations hung up tonight. We also still need to get some more boy appropriate window treatments...those were the ones we used for the guest room. I'll take some finished room pictures once everything is set up.

Henry is loving his room. Before we put the bed in there last night it was more of just a playroom for him which he thought was great. When we moved the bed in, he was even more thrilled and wanted to lay on it and play with his car/truck pillows. The next thing to do will be to get Henry sleeping in his new room on his big boy bed. I have a ton of anxiety about this, just mostly nervous about how he'll do with the transition. But I just want to do it because I think my fears about it are worse than it will actually be. Hopefully I'll be posting some pictures of him sleeping happily on his new bed soon!