Even the Boys Got a Cool New Room

One thing that was nice about this extension is that everyone got a new, bigger bedroom from the deal.  (This whole thing started because we wanted--no, we NEEDED another bathroom).  The boys went from sharing an 8 x 10 room (it can be done) to sharing a 12 x 13.5 foot room.  Max's favorite color is green, Luc's is Orange.  I wanted to make both of them happy but the room gets poor natural lighting, so I couldn't make it so dark.  I made the room light blue with darker blue trim and then used their favorite colors in stripes above their beds, and randomly in their room.

 

Even though the room is much bigger, space still gets chewed up with two boys; one of which is a serious packrat. 

In their old room, there was a built-in book case.  When they demo'd the room the bookcase came out in a solid piece.  It was just a large box, so I bought some trim molding and David fixed the book case to look like a nice piece of furniture.  For about $3 in materials, the boys got the tall/strong book case that you see here:

Since boys don't have a lot of clothes that hang on hangers, I was able to stow both of their dressers in the closet.  The two stripes together are my ridiculous attempt at symbolizing harmony between the boys.  (You know, like a black and white cookie? Look to the cookie!) 

 

Luc's favorite thing was that I painted their closet door and door in the darker blue.

 

He's still angling for his own room, but this will have to do. Besides, what he doesn't know is that it's not Max messing up his bulletin board....