Random: Simon's Room

We have three bedrooms in our house, all of which have vinyl wallpaper. And it was completely obvious it had to come off. We are people of color...in that we need our house, more specifically, our walls, to be colorful. In our first apartment we painted the walls bright blue and apple green. We had a bright red velour chair that I loved. In our subsequent apartments/houses, we've used paintings or other things to sub in for the fact that we couldn't paint the walls. And now that we own our own house, we plan on going crazy. Perhaps it will be lame and overdone since I'm not an interior designer. Yes, I do art and graphic design, but the large scale of a room or house makes me feel lost somehow. And that's where L is great for me...he balances that out because he's great with bigger spaces. I'm sure we'll keep the color explosion in check hopefully.

Anyway, all that was to segue into how we changed Simon's room though, as you'll see in the pictures below :) I'd like to point out that the tree pictures around the changing table and the mobile over the crib were created for Lyra's room. The sea creatures I created specifically for Simon.

Before: Main wall

Before: Changing table side

After: Main wall

A few of the bazillion books we have for him.

I love these little tubs for toys!

(This is also the most accurate wall color that we painted...I didn't photograph it well in the other photos)

After: Changing table side

Note the "R" for our last name that Stephanie did for us.

His sea creatures and the mobile that he loves.

The design I made for him and some of the many stuffed animals for him.