Post #706046 by raito on Tue, Jan 28, 2014 6:35 PM

Hi all. Not quite my first post, but my first thread.

My son Leo is getting big enough that he's going to need something other than a crib. Especially since a friend of mine and his wife are expecting, and we'll be giving them his crib. What to do, what to do? Why, tiki/beach it up, of course!

Here's how his room currently looks:
This is the side of the room with the crib that's going away.

Going counterclockwise, this room has on the right the door, and the closet door on the left. My wife got some mural stencils, and we painted them when he was born.

Still CCW, this is the window. Pretty boring.

Last wall. The decorations are photos and stuff we got on out Hawaiian honeymoon.
It also has his changing table, which is an Ikea dresser. That'll be moving to the crib wall, and the bed will go there.

The new bed is an Ikea Kura. I'm not going to picture it here because you'll be seeing more of it. The key feature is that it can be a low bed, or you can turn it over and make it into a loft bed. Leo's sister has one. For some reason, they only make them in white now. Hers is blue. You can also buy a bit of a canopy for them. Hers is blue with white dots (stars). His is green.

So some modification is in order.

Firstly, I had a couple pieces of hardboard left over from some picture frame modifications I did. So I cut out 4 surfboard shapes. I'm in the process of painting them. They'll get carpet taped to the inside headboard of the bed. That has some crossbars, and I sized these to fit between them. Leo picked out the base colors, and I've been striping them as I have time.

More to come...