Loft bed, decorating ideas solicited

[celticdragonfly]

Maggie now has her own room, with Brendan's old loft bed in it. She is sleeping there part time, and part time in the big nursery bed. The goal now is to get Jamie his own bed and move the big queensize into the guest room.

He loves to climb up into Maggie's loft, so we were thinking a loft bed for him too. Or possibly bunkbeds if that was easier to find, although the 2nd bed seems silly. We went shopping Sunday and did a bunch of hunting online too.


OW. ow ow ow. My goodness how expensive.

So now we're looking at building our own to this set of plans --->

I'm going to get help building it. What I'm wondering about is decorating it. Karl's first reaction was oh, just leave it plain and seal it. And we could do that.

But there's so FEW places I can put ornamentation in his life. There's not much in the way of "little boy decor" I'm going to want around. I can't get him beautiful fancy outfits, sigh. No pretty barrettes or hairbands. I don't want him to think I care more about his sister because she gets all the ornamentation.

So I'm wondering about decorating it. I could get out celtic knotwork designs and the woodburner, and do it up like I did my spinning wheel - probably the slowest option, but it would be nice. I could paint it a solid color, a nice cheery blue maybe. I could paint it more than one color - one for the frame and another for the ladder? Or I could paint it solid and then paint some kind of decorations on it, or decals or they do those wallpaper cutout things, or... what?

I'm hoping to get a run in to Hobby Lobby, without the kids, so I can poke around and look for ideas.

And I would really love suggestions, please.

Comments

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Ah! with a nest in the crook of a tree branch!

And if it's against a wall, a stuffie bird in the nest!

Silk leaves and a hot glue gun to give the tops bars a little fluffiness. whee!

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Wow, you guys are going off in amazing creative directions I'd never thought of. Okay, probably mostly because I don't have those skill sets.

Anything we do has to be STURDY and hold up to the depradations of a very energetic, very curious little boy.

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Hee, also the joy of brainstorming is that we aren't the ones sitting there well after bedtime with our skirts hotglued to the carpet and burn marks on our fingers and silk leaves in our hair. 8-)