Hi, Friends. Hope you had a great summer weekend. Ours was spent inside in the family room, which has become my work space. We did some major decluttering and organizing and hope to bring this space back to it’s family room status with new carpet, furniture updates, etc. by Thanksgiving. Of course, all on a DIY budget!
Today I’m going to share a bit more of Seth’s bedroom. This small space has gone from a baseball themed room when Josh was 8 to a cool pre-teen room with bright blue walls and silver metallic furniture, to it’s current status as a room with industrial elements and hipster style!
Earlier in the year Mark and Seth built the pipe and wood standing desk in the closet space. You can see that HERE.
And, I recently shared the industrial light fixture we made from a vintage chicken feeder HERE.
A few weeks ago, Seth was away for a week on a missions trip and Mark and I took this opportunity to finish the space.
The main problem with this room is it’s size – it’s tiny! It was a great size as a nursery, but really takes some thought to make it workable for a young man and all his stuff! Seth has a LOT of clothes. For that reason, we needed a dresser that would have lots of storage without being too big for the room. It took some time to find just the right piece, but I finally found the perfect dresser at a local auction the week Seth was away – a blond midcentury dresser with great lines and lots of drawers.
Of course, the color was all wrong, but that’s an easy fix with paint. When I bid on things at auction, I usually have a fixed highest bid in mind that I won’t go over. For this piece, I did go a little higher because it was the perfect size and style for Seth’s room. I finally won it for $100.
I chose to paint the dresser a dark brown – I used Behr paint from The Home Depot in Expresso Beans. It’s a rich, deep, dark brown. We gave the dresser a light sanding, primed (because I wasn’t using a chalk based paint) and painted it with two coats of the Expresso Beans paint in an eggshell finish. I also gave it a few light coats of a water based poly in satin finish for protection.
I also picked up new drawer pulls at The Home Depot that are modern and work well with this piece.
You know how everything old is new again! Earlier in the year, Seth was at a church yardsale and saw an old Technique Stereo for $20. (Did you have one of these – I know I did and so did Mark! Classic 80’s!)
Seth was sooooo excited when he brought his treasure home and has been building his vinyl collection. The new dresser is the perfect size for the stereo and speakers.
Seth found these cool posters on Etsy. They are the patent drawings for headphones and a record player. I picked up some cheap frames from Michael’s and hung them above the dresser.
Seth also has a thing about headphones – we think he has a headphone problem! Like, how many headphones does one need? You can only wear one pair at a time! But, he loves them and wanted to hang them on the wall. We purchased these Bjarnum folding hooks from Ikea and they work perfectly to hold the headphones and also work as a cool display element with the framed posters.
We had the framed posters hung and the headphones in place and then I saw these old speakers Seth had laying on the floor and thought they would look cool hanging above the framed posters. I had the vision – but hubs made it happen. He centered an eye hook in the ceiling above each poster and then used silver jewelry wire (what I had on hand) to go through the top two holes in the metal speaker frame and through the eye hook for hanging. The only problem was, the back of the speaker was heavy, and just hanging wasn’t going to keep that heavy part against the wall. So, we got some heavy duty Command Strips and that did the trick to hold this heavy part to the wall.
It was a fun week for Mark and I to work on this space for Seth. Near the end, we felt like we were on an HGTV show hurrying to finish up before Seth got home for the big reveal! I’ll admit we had fun playing his records while we made the bed and did some finishing touches!
Sadie came in to see what was going on. I think she’s trying to figure out where that crazy music is coming from!
Seeing this picture of Sadie made me realize that I’ve never shared the floor treatment we did in Seth’s room! I’ll save that for another post, since this one is already too long. Hope your week is off to a good start! I’ll be back on Wednesday with a giveaway and again on Thursday with another Lowe’s DIY Challenge sponsored by Hometalk!
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Doreen, this room looks great. I love the painted dresser. The color makes it look like a nice stained piece.
Great room. You guys are super cool!
Really looks like it is out of a magazine. Great design. I'll bet he has the best looking room of all his friends!!! I like all the creativity and that it was a group project too!
Love it and love the dresser.
Wow, you SHOULD be on HGTV! I know what you mean about boys' rooms needing to grow with them. My son is 11. As a little boy he had a vintage cowboy/western themed room. Now he has a space room (knock-off of Land of Nod, by me!) I'm already looking forward to the next change in a few years, the ideas are swirling in my head! Your room is gorgeous and different and ingenious……I'm sure he LOVED it! How could he not?:)
xoKathleen
The room looks fabulous, the way you incorporated his things into the decor is great.
The bedroom is so awesome!! The dresser transformation is amazing! I am so glad you shared the Etsy shop you got the cool posters from. I think I'm going to get something from the shop for my sons game room makeover!
Love the room! And that floor!!
Debbie