06/15/10

Wesley's room makeover is today. :)

Wesley's room was not originally going to be changed that much this go around. Once we painted and began to get our thoughts together on it we hated for his to not have some sprucing up, too. We did not really change the paint color. He originally wanted "John Deere green" on his walls. Uh... NO. We chose the neutral "Moose Mousse" so that his colors in his tractors would not be competing against the wall color. lol

His room has always been a bit comical. Wesley loves thumb tacks and loves to use them. If you notice, most of the things on his walls are crooked and it is because he has put them up himself. Usually it was at night... when he was supposed to be asleep.

We changed his room quite a bit so my before and after shots will not be the same as Mikayla's were. I forgot to mention in yesterday's post about Mikayla's room that we have gotten all new blinds in the house during this re-do/renovation project. They needed it.... the metal blinds that attract loads of dust and grime, and bend if you breathe on them, were in bad shape. Not to mention the kids blinds were broken from cats and the kids playing with them when they were little.

As with yesterday, click on any of the photos you'd like to view larger.

Before
Check out all of his wall hangings. We love his tractor/John Deere hangings.... just not always where he chose to put them. It was our fault in a lot of ways because we kept telling him we'd put them up later. He finally took matters in his own hands. lol
This was as you walked into his room.

After
This is now how it looks when you walk into his room. :)

He has a wall space right when you walk in that we spruced up, too. I love it!

Before
This was his wall to the left of his bed in its original spot. Notice his wall hanging abilities above his chest of drawers. lol The barn in the right corner was given to him by Mom and Dad when he was three. Daddy had it made for him and we painted it to be as close to "John Deere green" and also for our farm name of "Greenview Farms." That is a treasure he just loves.

After
Most of the same view.... chest of drawers were moved to where the head of his bed used to be. We painted the frames on his tractor pictures and moved them above his book shelf that had also been moved.

That is my old desk that he uses. As you can see in the before picture it held a lot of collectible tractors. Now he can show off some different things.

Before
Closet area.... his John Deere collectible tractors all reside above the doors on the shelf.

After
Everything stayed the same for the most part with the tractors, but the wall hangings were appropriately hung on the wall. lol

Before
Bed in the "old" position.

After
Bed in the "new" position.
If you read yesterday's post on Mikayla's room I talked about her shelf that was over her closet. We took that down, sanded it and spray painted it black, added new brackets and "voila", Wes has another place for his collectible tractors.
The photograph above his bed is of Daddy's tractor - Ford 5000 series. I took that a couple of years ago. We had it blown up to a 16x20. Wesley picked it out. It looks beautiful with the shelf above it displaying his other tractors.

These last two pics are just closeups of the pictures of tractors Wesley loves.

The first pictures are ones I photographed a few years ago of one of our friend's Farmall tractors and of Daddy's Ford tractor front. Wesley picked these out, too. I loved how they turned out in the black frames with white matting.

These were the other pictures Wesley had before above his bed. These are the frames I spray painted black... and I love how the tractor pictures "pop" now.

At this time I don't think I am going to do any window treatments in there. I can always change my mind, but his walls have so much on them and he will be having more shelves for tractors in his future so I want it looking more crisp around his windows. He also has two wall hangings coming that he doesn't know about (so does Mikayla) and they are surprises. I will show those when they arrive. :)

Wesley is so excited over his new room. I asked him what his favorite part was and he said the picture and shelf above his bed. He layed in there yesterday just soaking it all in and enjoying the newness. Simple things make him happy. It makes me happy to know he loves it and that his room is neat and all together now.