the boy's room

With Surrey away at my in-laws' for a couple nights and Jeremiah counting down his final hours of summer break, we are busting our tails to get as many things squared away in the new place as possible. The first week we moved in we made big time progress, but things have slowed down a bit lot with a newborn and a toddler and no live-in grandparent help. Nevertheless, it's coming along. As you know by now, I'm certifiably insane so I am moving things around every free moment I have. Every time Jeremiah comes in from outside something is rearranged. I mean, really, every single time.

Knox's room was no exception. It took me a long while (this entire month we've been here) to feel settled on furniture placement and decor for the most part. Of course, this entire place is still a work in progress. One huge thing you'll see lacking in every inch of this house is paint. Right now there's flat white paint on every surface (other than those hideous kitchen cabinets). Actually, I'm not sure it's even paint - I think most of the trim is seriously just primer. This painter was clearly over it. 

Here's the view when you walk in the room. We reused the curtains my mom made from our old condo's guest room, which happen to be the same fabric as Surrey's curtains but in a different color scheme. Jeremiah's excited to have a place to display his cherished childhood football cards and some other memorabilia. We've got a loose blue/green theme going on in here, with a few jolts of yellow and orange to keep things interesting. 

Also from the condo's guest room we carried over a bit of a Penn State theme. You Hokie fans aren't the only die-hards around here. The pictures in the frames above the crib are from my brother's old calendars. So vintage, so special, so awesome.

And check these homemade touches out. The trophy figure hooks are killer. I had pinned something similar before I was even pregnant and not too long before Knox was born I consulted my mom about it. You may or may not know that in my high school glory days my summer job was making trophies at my mom's work. Like a boss. I asked her to gank some extra figures from the shop, and of course she went way beyond. Her and my dad went all out and made the whole set of hooks. Da bomb.

As I did for Surrey, I made Knox a little mobile. Sidenote, how in the world is that word supposed to be pronounced? Mo-beel? Mo-bull? Mo-bile? Who knows. Regardless, another pinned inspiration was a mobile with paper airplanes. After a lot of failed attempts, I finally figured out a right size paper and a right way to fold the airplanes. I almost gave up after an entire naptime's worth of trying. I'm so glad I didn't though because ultimately I think it's so cute. Jeremiah asked if I was going to start selling them on etsy (since that's where the inspiration came from) and I said a big fat hail no. Because it may look easy but it was a huge pain. And true to my crafting form, by the end of it I ended up having to throw on some scotch tape to hold things in place. Not perfect, but you can't tell unless you closely inspect. Or unless you read it on a blog. Sheesh.

And to keep things real, here's a work in progress shot of the closet. Because this house has next to no storage, here's my craft chifforobe (apparently it's a technical term) shoved into Knox's closet, doors removed. It holds my sewing machine and all my extra fabrics and craft supplies. A baby's room may not be the logical place to house these things, but it's my only option. At some point I think I'll grab a tension rod and some canvas and make a little curtain for above the chifforobe to hide all the diaper storage. Not pretty.

We're working with what we've got in this house, people. My eyes are always peeled for a good clearance item or bargain to add to our space, but for the most part it is a bunch of me shifting and tweaking things we already have. We're broke. But this guy is none the wiser for it.