Andrew's Bedroom

I am a bad DIYer, which is why I buy t-shirts from the clearance rack instead of making them myself. But Andrew's bedroom badly needed to be painted, and unfortunately, there's not really a clearance rack for stripping wallpaper and painting, so we set out to do it ourselves. I thought it would be easy to paint because his room is so small. Wrong. His room is small, but it actually has eight different facades, a sloping ceiling, and the windows and door frames are right up against the wall. It was a pain to paint.

Andrew insisted he wanted a green room, but for some reason, I didn't think it would look good all green, so I painted two of the walls a brownish color. As soon as the first coat was up, Andrew said he didn't want green because green is his second favorite color; he wanted blue, which is his first favorite color. Now he says he likes the green, but not the brown. Oh well.

We found some nice decorations to put up on the walls, and his room is now the best decorated of any room in our house. He doesn't appreciate it, though, and usually comes downstairs after being put to bed saying he doesn't like being alone. He doesn't know how good he has it.

 I got these funky car pictures at Ikea a while ago, thinking they would be nice in Andrew's room someday. I searched around for cheap, plain frames and finally found some at Family Dollar and they go perfectly right here.

 Did Mom make all of you one of these baby boy poems when your boys were born, too?

 We also have some decorations that Preston's Nana made, like that one about "Why God Made Little Boys."

I finally had a perfect place to put up a gutter shelf, and I love it. Yes, it is crooked, but in our house, it's hard to tell if it's the shelf itself, the floor, or the ceiling that's crooked (most likely all three).