The Making of a Boy's Room, Part 1

It's official, my son now feels old enough to move to basement.  When did he get this old??  We are here for the design of the new basement bedroom not my tears because time is going so fast.  We have been working for some time on finishing the whole basement, and as we work slowly to get it done, the bedroom was obviously a part of the process.  Part 1 gets us the walls!  We went with a mountain theme, given he hiked a few 14ers this year, this seems perfect.

We added mountains to 2 of his walls, and the idea came from none other than Pinterest.

First we get to the choosing of the paint colors, which are Evergreen from Eddie Bauer Home, Native Henna from Valspar, and I matched my baseboard white for the mountain peaks.  Then we started to sketch the design.

The great thing about this design is you can create the mountains to perfectly fit your space.  As you can see we made the first layer pretty tall.  We had 10 foot ceilings to work with, so the higher we went the more dramatic his room became.  His tall ceilings allowed us to choose a dark color without making his room look too small.

Next layer the native henna, admittedly the taping process was not super fun, but it's turning out pretty cool.

Loving the extra help.  He's not excited to move to the basement?!?  Can you tell?

The two tall peaks, which will be right where his bed will go, are the last 14ers we want to hike this season, Grays and Torreys.

Added his name to the wall, and the start to the basement bedroom is well on it's way.  Wait till you see what finishing touches are on the way to complete this bedroom design.