Blessed Beyond Measure: Big Boy Room...Finally!

Back when I was very pregnant with Avery in 2014, Eric and I worked hard to transform our guest room into a Big Boy Room for Asher. It took me forever to figure out what type of theme I wanted to go with for the room since there was nothing in particular that Asher was really crazy about. I perused the internet for bedding that I liked and found something that I loved at Land of Nod. It was adorable and reminded me of Maine (get a preview here) and the love that Eric and his family have for it with it's buoys. Unfortunately it was more than I cared to spend on a quilt for a two year old, but when Eric's mom offered to buy it for Asher's birthday I agreed and got to work on the rest of the room.

Since the bedding was red, white and blue I decided to go with navy and white stripes for Asher's room. It was a BIG change from the previous beige that the guest room had been and I was nervous that it would be too much for the room, but I gave it a shot anyway and was pretty happy with the result!

Me painting the room at almost 8 months pregnant! Don't worry it was No VOC paint! ;)

The base coat. It made me nervous...such a different look!

To put the stripes on I went with the tried and true method of painting the base coat, putting the tape down outside of the lines and then painting over the tape with the base coat color.

Once this dried we painted over with the stripe color and got perfect crisps lines. It worked awesome once we found the right tape. The first painters tape I bought was terrible and started falling off the wall soon after we put it up! This picture shows the process BEFORE the tape was removed.

Crisp lines after. Only 3 walls to go!

Once the walls were finished, we just had to put in the furniture and the decorations. For the furniture, we got a big boy bed for Asher from IKEA, a dresser that Eric's parents had in storage which we painted white and put new hardware on, and some lockers that used to be in Eric's brother's room, which we painted red. For the decorations I found some cute nautical things at Hobby Lobby, a rug and nautical lamp at Target and then some other props that I had purchased for Asher's "Maine Event" 2nd birthday party and some that I already had around the house. Finally I found this piece of "art" at the church rummage sale which I immediately had vision for. While I felt a little bad at the thought of painting over Jesus, I also felt it would make a great door sign for Asher's room.

The "artwork" I found at the church rummage sale. I thought it was a little funny that the nautical wheel said "My Pilot" rather than "My Captain". Apparently there are still Maritime pilots, but it still seemed odd to me as captain is much more common.

So that is the back story. I had planned to post about this room two years ago, but never got around to finishing it at the level that I wanted to share the final pics. This summer I finally took the time to get it completely finished so here it is:

Asher's Bedding and Life-preserver pillow (Land of Nod), Bed (IKEA), rug (Target), scratch-off state map (Uncle Rob), fishing buoys (made from white lantern balls half painted red, fishing net (Hobby Lobby).

Nautical Buddy Storage (Target)

Dresser (Eric's parents with new paint job & new hardware), bulletin boards (square cork from JoAnn Fabrics with red fabric over), laundry basket (Hobby Lobby