A room fit for a cowboy

When we finally got our house I was excited that finally decorate Cohen’s  room. His last room was so tiny that I just really stuck to colors verses a theme. His last room was browns and creams and while that was nice too, it wasn’t exactly I had envisioned for his room.

I first thought I wanted to do vintage airplanes but after his first birthday I decided I had to have a cowboy room. Mainly because it allowed me to reuse all his decorations that I worked so hard on!  The color scheme stayed the same; Navy blue, maroons, browns and creams. I didn’t want it over the top cowboy, like someone threw up cows and hay all over his room, and it what we did works great cause if I decide I want to change it years down the line all I have to do it swap out the decor and it will still work.

Here is what it looked like when we moved in. Boring and dirty dingy flat white.

First we moved the crib to the guest room. This was his residence for a week.

 

Then we got to work!  I say we but by that I mean, Husband.

We would put Cohen to sleep and start sawing and nailing. It was loud!! Even though he was in the next room, he never woke up. When he’s in bed for the night, he’s out!

After the board and batten was installed, I painted the top half. It’s by Behr and the color is English Channel. We got the paint and primer in one. SO worth it. It took barley two coats which is rare for my walls since they have no texture and require 3+ coats even with the lightest color.

Then the time consuming part came. Painting the board and batten. White after white after white… Doesn’t seem bad but it’s on a flat wall and the boards are primed MDF so it showed all the brush strokes. It took 3/4 coats and if we didn’t run out of paint it could have taken a few more!

 

After a week of hard work, the room is finally done.

Wont you come in??

 

The curtains are the same ones he had before, I just added some scrap fabric I had to the top of it. The red valance under the curtains is attached to the wall with furniture brads and it’s just a sheet! It’s the red sheet I got from goodwill and made his crib sheet out of. The excess became a curtain.

  

The pillow I made… andddd you can tell. I am not thrilled with it so it will be going soon.

The window seat now has a bench built on top of it and was framed out.

Garth Brooks “Rodeo” lyrics in a rope font, framed

 

The chalk board table!

 

He LOVES his room. He always runs in and grabs his toy gun or his chalk and goes to town! I am pretty proud of it, too. So cute!