We’ve been updating our teenage son’s room for the previous couple of months. It began with a complete reorganization plan since he had collected a whole lot of issues he had collected through the years and wasn’t able to let go of. To honor that, we had so as to add additional storage within the type of cabinets and dedicate his closet to storage too.

Teenagers want their personal area to chill out and sleep and prepare for college and work and now have an area that displays their character adorned within the colours and patterns they like. Once I requested my son what colours he wished for his room refresh he mentioned “brown, grey, and black”. Okay then.

His little boy room was a teal blue for ten years and we repainted it in a mid tone taupe. A number of years in the past we traded his twin for a full measurement mattress. Lately we made added extra cabinets to retailer keepsakes and upgraded his mattress linens.

Like a whole lot of boys, my son was obsessive about Legos in his youthful years and spent a whole lot of time constructing ships. He has a shared curiosity in aviation with Matt and so they’ve constructed a whole lot of mannequin airplanes collectively. He additionally loves music and martial arts so his room displays all of the issues that make him who he’s.

The IKEA dresser we’ve had for years (very long time readers will bear in mind I used it for this venture). I moved it into my son’s room, painted the trim darkish brown, and swapped the knobs for an oil rubbed bronze button model.

The wall cabinets and brackets are from Lowe’s and match the area inside dresser area of interest properly. He wanted a spot to retailer his Lego builds from years in the past, they’re cool and he’s pleased with them so we added two wall cabinets for displaying them up excessive.

Above his mattress he favored the thought of film posters, these favorites of his are framed in cheap black poster frames from Michaels. The nightstand cupboard I picked up at Residence Items and the linens and headboard I bought for him on-line (sources under).

The DIY board and batten wall remedy we put in years in the past nonetheless seems so good. I’d repeat that methodology once more if I used to be putting in board and batten in one other area.

His closet doorways have been the ever present bypass contractor doorways like these put in in so many houses. As an alternative of changing them, we paneled over the entrance of the doorways with a skinny sheet of plywood hooked up with brad nails. Then I stained them walnut, the identical coloration because the wall cabinets throughout the room, and I added glossy black elongated pulls.

Should you’re curious what his little boy room seemed like ten years in the past on this similar area, see this publish and this venture.

Now the area is a “brown, grey, and black” as requested and a mirrored image of who he’s right now.

sources: grey bamboo sheets / striped pillowcases / tweed lumbar pillowcase

grey fake leather-based headboard / striped panel curtains / plaid comforter 

closet door pulls / ladder cabinets / shelf boards & brackets / poster frames

higher wall paint coloration: Benjamin Moore ‘City Sophisticate’