Big Brother Room

Over spring break we finally had the opportunity to convert Chase's room into a "big brother room." I have been wanting to redecorate his room for a long time, but we knew baby #2 was coming at some point and thought that would be the perfect time to do it (since the baby will get his old furniture). I painted for a few days this week and his new bed came in. We are still waiting on his dresser, but other than that, the room is DONE!

Here's a "before" picture for you. It isn't exactly how it looked before, but it's pretty close. This picture was taken right after we moved in over a year and a half ago, when Chase was still in his crib (and then, shortly after we converted his crib into a daybed, we had to take all the toys out or he wouldn't sleep)! But other than that, the room has pretty much stayed the same:

And here are the "afters." New bed:

Painted cabinet:

New window valance:

(And new paint job, of course.) Here's a closeup of one of the lions:

Before you ooh and ahh over my artistic masterpiece on the walls, I must confess it was all done by projecting images onto the wall with an LCD projector and tracing them. I found a clipart image for the grass...

...and for the lions I took an actual picture of the stuffed lion that you see on the bed:

And Brian helped! He painted a lot of the grass. After a day of painting all that detail on the floor (each lion took me an hour and a half!) I could barely walk. My back was killing me! But it was worth it. We love how it turned out and Chase likes it, too.

Not like Chase jumped up and down or anything. He has been home sick since Tuesday afternoon. He has some sort of a bug (fever/red eyes/runny nose/etc.) on top of some, well... digestive issues. Let's just say the sewer is backed up and we have had to do some system flushing.

It's been a fun week.