Today I’m sharing all the progress photos (and colour reveal!) for our newest room redo. We’re updating the smallest bedroom at our house and swapping our kids around. Check out the kid’s bedroom progress and closet shelve details that I worked on.
Alright, if you caught my post last week about the kid’s bedroom redesign, you’ll know that this was the only bedroom without board and batten.
I slowly worked at adding the horizontal and vertical pieces of 3-1/2″ trim across the room. Once it was installed, I patched (then sanded) the holes and seams, and caulked all the inside edges. Followed by a quick coat of primer.
In hindsight, I should have also sanded the edges of the yellow stripes. There are little ridges that you can still see with the new paint. Not a big deal, but not 100% perfect either.
Choosing the Best Muted Teal
After I did my Instagram Stories vote for a colour group, I went to the store and picked up a bunch of similar swatches of teal. From there, I cut the paint decks so I’d only see the squares I wanted to.
Colour-wise, I needed something that would look good against the wallpaper and bed. And it had to match the overall vibe of the rest of the rooms (so nothing too bright). I also wanted a teal that was more green than blue.
One thing to know about paint colours: they will appear brighter/bolder once they are on the wall. Comparing the colours in the swatches above, the ones I chose (top right picture) were all the more muted tones.
In the end, I really liked Spruce Green and Harrisburg Green – but wished for something in between. Once, I needed something in between two colours and didn’t find a compromise, so I bought a quart of each and mixed them together.
This time, I went to the Benjamin Moore website (these were all BM swatches) and searched the two colours. From there, I noted all the “similar colours” that they have listed, and went back to the store to browse in person.
Spring Break was the winner!
(Although it wasn’t one of the colours listed on the website, it was next to one of the suggestions in the old paint deck.)
I brushed all the edges, then used a small foam roller to fill in all the big sections and flat areas.
It took two coats, and was already looking good before the wallpaper was added.
Building Custom Closet Shelves
But before I get to the wallpaper, I want to talk about the closet organization.
This is the smallest closet of the three bedrooms, at less than 4′ wide. It was also the messiest one, and the spot where I shoved a bunch of random stuff.
(Aka clothes that were too big for Félix, the duvet blanket he didn’t use, and broken bean bag chairs/poufs).
I debated putting the bed in here (it was the perfect width), but knew that we would benefit from added storage.
Once the dresser was taken out and everything cleared/cleaned, I got to work adding custom shelves. I used kids’ shirts as my guide for how high the shelf should be (plus the shelves that I made in the other closet too).
I also added a shelf on the top section since there was a lot of open space. It was more to balance the design, rather than to make anything useful for kid’s storage. (Although, I did put some of the extra stuff up there, so good for that, ha!)
The shelves were painted the same colour as the board and batten, and I left the rest of the closet white.
(Oh, and added a rod to hang clothes below the bottom shelf too – perfect for little ones).
Finally, the biggest part of the bedroom makeover was adding the wallpaper. It was also the most expensive aspect of the renovation…
>> Here is the dragon fire wallpaper we chose << (it’s the regular sized dragons with the black background).
This was not my first rodeo installing wallpaper, and it certainly won’t be my last.
But true to form, I was running out of wallpaper again! I swear I ordered extra and everything, but as I made my way around the room (about halfway) I started to get nervous. You see, the problem with doing only small sections is that there is a lot of extra waste on the part of the pattern you don’t use.
In the other kids’ room, I added more board and batten to one last wall. Unfortunately for here, the local stores did not carry flat stock as thin (1/2″) and the difference was very noticeable.
In the end, I made it work with some created cutting and pasting. I swear it looks okay, and there really is only one part that is “wrong”, but it’s like a fun ‘where’s waldo’ thing, ha. You’ll have to come back next week to see the full reveal!
And yeah, our house is slowly becoming more rainbow-y, but I’m not even mad about it :)
(More details about the colourful hallway here.)
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