Owen's big boy room

Since Owen will be moving into his new room in the next few months (hopefully, more like 6 months, so that I can keep him in his crib a little while longer lol!), Steve and I decided that it's time to start working on it. Our guest room was being used as storage, so there were lots of toys, boxes, and other miscellany in there. I was afraid it would be a slow, painful process, but we've actually made quite a bit of headway so far.

The first order of business was getting Owen his own big boy bed, as my old daybed has hearts on it, and isn't exactly the epitome of boyishness. Though he will be getting more formal furniture when he's older, once we decide when/if we are going to have a third child, we went with this fun Ikea bed in the meantime. You can set it up as it is in the picture, and once the child is older, you can flip it over and use it as a loft bed, how fun! Also, when it's flipped, you can put a mattress on the bottom, so it becomes a bunk bed.



Once Owen's bed was put together, we worked on clearing all of the junk from the room. I wish I had taken a before picture of just how cluttered the room is, but needless to say, it's looking much better now. Nearly everything has been organized into Rubbermaid storage bins, so now it's just a matter of finding a new home for them. Steve dragged my old Ikea dresser out of the closet, so now there's tons of room in there for Owen's stuff. Once the containers are out of the room, it will finally look like a bedroom again, how exciting!