Jae's Room

I helped the boys clean out their rooms and rearrange their furniture this week (or, rather they helped me....a bit). We did Tristen's room first and he is SUCH a hoarder. He had junk stashed EVERYWHERE -- and it really hasn't been all that long since we cleaned it out last. Then we did Jarek's room and the amount of junk he had didn't even compare to Tristen. In fact, the amount of stuff in general (toys, furniture, decorations) in Jarek's room didn't compare to Tristen's. So, I started feeling guilty. We never really finished Jarek's room after we moved in. I decorated Emme's room right away because it was the first GIRL room I got to decorate, then we did Tristen's room in a space theme. I had big plans for Jarek's room. My mom started collecting the Chevron Cars for Tristen the year he was born and I had planned to put shelves up all the way around Jarek's room to put the cars on, but four years later they're still sitting in the top of his closet in the boxes I packed them in the last time we moved.

My mom and I painted this mural for him:
But that was as far as we got. I looked for Chevron Car bedding, or curtains, or wall paper borders, and couldn't find anything. Then the Disney Pixar CARS movie came out and I figured that was close enough, so we got the bedding. At the time he had bunkbeds in his room, so he got both a twin set and a full set. Then for his birthday last year we got him a car bed. And that was all he had in his room yesterday when we cleaned it out -- a mural on one wall, his car bed, his dresser, and the old computer. Poor kid! So I went shopping last night and bought him a CARS poster to put above his bed and the little chairs to go with the computer. I decided he needed curtains, so I used the full size sheet set to make some today. I also touched up the paint in his room (as well as along the stairs, the loft, and the hallway -- I could KILL whoever invented flat white paint!!!), and it's finally starting to look like a cute little boy room :) I'd still like to get some shelves to put the Chevron Cars up on the wall his bed is against though.... maybe if we stay here another four years ;)