COWABUNGA / Caden's Room Before and After

Caden's Super Hero Room is 99% finished!

I just need to pick up the pictures I ordered for the little frames

that are on the picture ledges...

And buy a bed skirt or something to cover the box spring.

The total cost for this room was as follows:

Large Spider man framed picture $24.99

The medium size super hero pictures were $9.99 each x 6

IKEA picture ledge Large $14.99

IKEA picture ledge Small $9.99

Wooden Initials $9.47

IKEA Small picture frames $1.99 each x 3

$125.35

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

Ninja Turtles from Grama and Gramps

Caden is so proud of his lil bedroom

renovation, and I am so glad I

threw my nautical theme out

the window and embraced his idea

of a Ninja Turtle room.

I took his ideas and mixed them with some of mine,

we added a few more super heroes to the mix and Voila!

(Luckily I was able to talk him out of the Ninja 

Turtle Bed spread and orange paint!)

He's Happy and I'm Happy...

On to the next room!

Easy as CRC / How to Decoupage anything

I went to Hobby Lobby looking for some

letters to help decorate Caden's room.

I asked one of the store associates where the

letters were, and she said they

had different kinds of letters all over the store.

SHE WASNT KIDDING!

They had Large wood letters that were already painted,

they had wood letters that were stained,

they had large metal letters that had lights aroung them,

they had metal galvanized letters,

they had cardboard letters,

etc etc.

I loved the metal galvanized letters,

but I didnt want to pay $30 each letter,

since it wasn't the focus piece of the room.

So I went wit the $2.99 wood letters,

and decoupaged the 2 "C's" and painted the "R" 

Decoupaging is a super cheap way to 

customize anything from wooden letters to

an old thrifted lampshade 

(Yes, me and an old roommate did that with clippings we 

found in old magazines, and it looked awesome!)

AND DECOUPAGING IS EASY,

Check it out:

12" Wooden letters

Trace the letter onto the paper you want to attach to the wood

Cut out the paper letter that you traced

Paint the edges of the letters before you Paint on a layer of Mod Podge to the wood letter

place the paper letter on top of the wet mod podge, let that dry and than do a final sealing layer on top of the paper

Get inspiration from anything...I got the inspirtion for this "R" in an elle decor magazine. That is a picture of a book cover!

I also did a final sealant layer over the painted "R", so it would have the same "shiny" finish.

Total Cost:

$8.97 (3 wood letters)

$.50 (striped scrapbook paper)

$0 Paint was from projects I did years ago

$0 modge podge was from old projects I did about 8 years old

TOTAL $9.47

Super Awesome Super Hero Decor / Caden's bedroom plans

The package I ordered from IKEA

came today!

I ordered a few picture ledges and some 

picture frames for Cadens Room.

That cute baby looks just as excited as I was to see this package!

His room decoration had been on hold for about

6 weeks because I originally bought yellow

paint for his room, thinking I was going to

do a nautical theme....

But After searching for boyish Nautical

themed decor, I gave up!

We decided to do a Super Hero Room,

which was much more fitting for him anyway!

After I found these pictures at Ross,

(for an amazing deal)

I decided that the original yellow paint I 

had bought was no longer going to

look good....

since most of the pictures had a LARGE

amount of yellow.

So I took the blue paint I used for the hallway project, 

see it here:

Hallway Reno

AND added some leftover cream paint from the 

room addition,

see it here:

4th room addition

And voila, I had the perfect color for Caden's

Super Hero Room!

Now that I have the pictures all ready,

and the IKEA package has arrived,

Tomorrow I will finally fill the blank space on

all his walls.....with THESE:

wood-backed vintage comic picture

wood-backed vintage comic picture

The layout I plan to use when hanging the decor

IKEA picture ledges

Caden's figurine mess

wood-backed vintage comic picture

wood-backed vintage comic picture

Wood letters that I decoupaged and painted

Closing the french doors on this project / 4th bedroom done

The fourth bedroom/playroom/guestroom is done!

Our contractor gave

us a good deal...and he did exceptional work!

framing began 3 weeks ago, and it would 

not have

taken so long, but the painting kept me behind.

MONEY SAVING TIP:

If you have any contracting work done that

includes drywall etc...if you tell them you are going

to do all the priming/painting, they will give you a much better deal!

Here is the link to more "before" pics

Going postal/adding a 4th bedroom

Framing

Primed!

After the drywall was complete I had to prime it.

ALWAYS PRIME BARE DRYWALL BEFORE PAINTING!

If you skip the priming step, the drywall will suck up a ton

of your paint, and you will end up needing a lot more paint than

you would have, had you primed.

(And that equals more money in paint)

Painted

 The door came unprimed,

so I had to prime one side...let that dry

and than prime the other side and let that dry...

Paint one side...let that dry

and than paint the other side and let that dry...

Finished

And since there are two doors, I had to do that two times over!

 FINALLY!  The walls are primed/painted, the doors are primed/painted..

Now I just need to add some large trim on

the outside wall (The trim on the inside of the room is done).

BEFORE...an extra long odd shaped room, missing some wood flooring and lacking trim

AFTER....a playroom with french doors.  More welcoming, more function, 4th bedroom=more home value!