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

[archangelbeth]

I'd just seal it, or paint it some reasonably nice color, and then... whenever he gets stickers, let/encourage him to stick them on His Bed.

We have a Brio table which is the Sticker Location. It keeps the things from getting stuck to any other furniture (save, pre-Briotable, the insides of certain cabinet doors), keeps them from being stuck on skin till they wear out and turn into curled trash that cannot be thrown away while she's anywhere around (and even then, she might wonder where it went), and satisfies her need to Horde Everything.

Little year-of-the-dragon kid...

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea; I stuck most of my sticker collection to the back of the furniture under my loft bed. My only regret was when we finally gave the furniture away when I was a college student--I lost my stickers! Waah!