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]

You know, you might go block colors.

We picked up a kiddie rockingchair with a ghastly paint job and repainted it in red blue and yellow. The back rails and rocker rails are red, the seat and crossbars are blue, everything else is yellow so no two sections that touch each other are the same color. Very bright, very chipper, very kid-like.

Then if you choose to do the bedsheet curtain trick, either with a stable gun or the tension rod, as previously suggested, bright red or blue sheets are in the outlet store's bargain bin pretty often.

Or four different shades of blue? Navy, royal, bright, and pale? Can't get any more "boy" than blue and it'll meld with the curtains until Pooh gets old and is replaced with something less toddler and more colt.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Hm, just got off the phone with my dad and a similar discussion. Maybe do the ladder rails in ascending shades of blue, darker to lighter? And maybe the verticals green. Maybe some yellow somewhere, he likes that color.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

If you do the stars thing, you could do stars or a moon in yellow.