Aaron's big boy room(Olive Kids Decor)

Finally finished Aaron's room. I said I would take a before and after photos. However, I forgot to take a pix of the room before we tore into it. So all that is left is the crib. You can see how the walls were with the bunny border. DUH....I know! I am too lazy to go thru all my pixs looking for a photo. This one should do of the crib(below).

Before.....

After....

I like the after better. Have alot more color on the wall. I really didn't like the green checkered wallpaper on the bottom of the wall. I like this green color much better. I was happy to get rid of the wallpaper. I liked the bunny border but just didn't look that great in pixs. This Olive Kids border is so much better. Bigger to see and more vibrant. Plus, Aaron loves it. Here is a pix of Doug working on putting the chair rails back in over the border. He had his air compressor outside in the snow storm....and thru the window. Easiest way to reach Aaron's room from the garage. Have I said that I love this wall color? When picking out paint we made the mistake of going with the paint chip off Olive Kids website. UGH! IT was a grass green color and didn't seem to match the border at all. I knew when we bought it ....that it just wasn't my color I had in my mind. So before we left the store I picked out a second color That I liked ....it was still from Behr Premium paints but it was in the Disney Section and it was called: English Meadow. MUCH, MUCH, Much better color. I like soft colors and not very bright vivid primary colors. I am sure that grass green would have looked ok.....but I couldn't handle such dark green. This color was more like it. So, if your buying OK ...check into the Disney colors from Behr paints. They seem to have more fun kid colors and they had coordinating colors ontop the paint chip. That line was much better. I used eggshell finish. The top half of the wall we kept as is. It was my sister's Char paint job. She painted a faux finish in blue to look like a sky. So we kept that theme going. Thought it look cool with the planes and all. I love using green and blue together. Those 2 colors coordinate nicely.

Just another view of the room. I kept the Lamp shade I had and the drape. I liked the toile pattern too much to get rid of it. At least it's the blue and it matches.

We have a funny story with the bed. We bought 2 mattresses for it. Put the bed together and found out that we only needed one mattress. DUH! Were so dorky, we didn't realize that a trundle bed would be higher than a normal bed. So the bed sits higher and so does the mattress. We put the 2 mattresses on the bed and laughed our heads off. You should have seen how high the bed was. Almost higher than the headboard. I told my hubby, something is terribly wrong here. No kidding huh? What a bummer! Well, we fixed that problem easy enough and used one mattress. However, we ran into some other "issues" because of the bed frame. I will explain them down the line here in pixs.

Oh, here is a cute pix of Muffin. Shih Tzu's love Olive Kids too! Here is a good pix of how high the bed frame is. Usually mattress sits low to the ground. They make trundle beds this way to make room for the extra mattress & Drawer underneath. I didn't get the trundle bed with this bed......but I suppose it still made for the trundle underneath. DUH! This pix shows a good pix of the cute Olive Kids sheets. The comforter is super cute too. Very nice and warm but surprisingly a nice thin comforter. Not bulky at all. Love it!

Here is Aaron kicking his heels. He's trying out his new big boy bed. I suppose after the poor kid was in his crib a year too long.....perhaps that is the reason he's so giddy over his new room. This pix also shows the other problem we had with this bed. The toddler railing: we had to custom make to work on this trundle bed. Usually these guards go between the two mattresses. Well, we only had one. So My Dh is pretty handy with the tools. He connected it to the bottom of the bed frame. So it slides under the bed frame when not in use. This ended up working much better than the original design. I didn't think I would like moving it in-between the mattresses every day. Seems like that would make the mattress lumpy and bumpy with that rail system in the bed? Ummm? The other problem we had was minor but still bummed about it. We couldn't use the bedskirt with it. The Olive kids bedskirt was so cute too. My Dh is still trying to come up with a way for us to make the bedskirt work. Any suggestions? We need the bedskirt.....Aaron room first thing you see coming up our steps and you can see right under the bed. Since the bed is higher. Makes for great storage underneath....and I want to use it for that purpose ....so the bedskirts a must to hide the mess under there.

Below is just some more pixs of Aaron enjoying his new big boy bed. I really like his bed. Even tho we had problems with it/the bed itself is super nice and works well with the Olive Kids bedding. IT ended up looking very black against the room colors. Which is great, because the Olive Kids bedding has alot of the color black in their planes, Trains and Trucks bedding.

This is cute: a pix of Aaron sleeping in his new bed. He was so excited when he got back from Grandma's house and saw his room transformed into a haven of planes, trains and trucks. He just loved his new room. We had a hard time getting him to do anything that night. He wanted to hang out all night in his room. He still enjoying it now. I thank Grandma and Grandpa for getting him use to a big boy bed for us. He's been sleeping in a big bed at their place every weekend. It made for a super easy transition for us. Thanks Judy and Dave! You Rock!

I got this thin blanket at Target. Matched really nice with the OK bedding. It's warm but very thin and fuzzy. We peel the comforter back. I like the blue checks on this OK bedding too. Makes it so you can flip it over if you want. Double sided! Almost as fun as scrapbook paper~hee!

I kept Aaron's original bed table. Thank goodness I did. There is hardly enough room the way it is. This table fits perfect where it's at. I jazzed up his original white furnishings in his room with some special knobs. I put the fun plaid painted knobs on this white table.

The other photo is Aaron climbing on his bed. Another vantage point in the room. Tiny room, but made it as functional as we could. We didn't want to move him out of that room. As this room surprisingly has a big closet and we designed it special with crates and such. So we wanted to keep him in the small room. Maybe someday he can have the basement all to himself???? Notice in the pix I put the other Olive Kids Throw pillow on the toy chest. The toy chest doubles as a seating bench too. Love that toy chest! Aaron loves the throw pillows. Those Olive Kids throw pillows are the best. So super cute! They really add to the room.

Speaking of, here is a closer look at the train throw pillow. How cute is that??? The pillow sham was a hoot too! So much fun! I just really love the colors in this bedding. I usually don't like bright strong color....but these are just the right shades.

I was really surprised the value you get out of this bedding. I bought the Olive Kids online(right from Olive Kids) but Target and Kohl's both sell their planes, trains, and trucks.

I almost put a hole in the pocket book by thinking of buying pottery barn kids bedding but found the Olive Kids site. Saved myself some money and got a great bed set for my son. I was able to buy all the accessories and than some.....and still ended up less than what PB would have been Just for their sheets and comforter. Yikes!

Just another closer view of the toy chest and my cute little munchkin! Isn't that plane pillow just the best? Super cute I tell you. It's very velvety soft. LOVE IT!

Last but not least.....we have a pix of the plane drawer pull on the dresser. I have several knobs left to use but haven't gotten that all done yet in his room. I found these very cute, inexpensive felt bags at Target. They go so well with his theme of his room. They had them in the dollar bins. I am going to pick several more of them up next trip to Target. As Aaron is really lovin them. He's moving them around his room. I figure for a buck I can get more and he can fill them up with things.

We were happy with his room and I think Aaron was the happiest of all. Which is what we were aiming for the whole time. A special thanks to Olive Kids. Thanks for making wonderful product for the customers and making it AFFORDABLE! LOVE IT! Even if you didn't have their bedding the accessories alone are super cute. I bet they match alot of kids rooms. They have several different themes for kids. I like it! I found out they have a blog here check them out if you got time or are looking for kids stuff: http://olivekids.blogspot.com/ or check them out at their store: http://www.olivekids.com/

Olive Kids Stuff

Look what I got in the mail the other day....Yippeee! Went shopping for Aaron's bedroom. He has all baby stuff in his room still. I know I am slow to transform his room from baby/to toddler/kid room. I wanted this decor to last longer than the baby stuff. So I tried to find one really boy theme. This seem to fit the bill. Actually I spied a really cute set from Pottery barn kids and saw the PRICE and said.....awwww.....NO WAY! So I compromised and found this set from Olive Kids. The price was right and I was able to get accessories for his room as well with the money I saved. I decided after searching online/that ordering directly from Olive kids would save me time and less hassle. Plus, they had FREE shipping-love that! everything was shipped in a timely manner/and in good shape. Love that too! Here is a pix of the bedding and some accessories :




I ended up getting the round rug. Very cute for a accent rug. I just loved the theme because Aaron LOVES trucks so much and cars and anything that mechanical. The pottery barn bedding I passed up because it was too expensive had only planes on it. So I was happy with this set because it had trucks and other things in it.



Here is a pix of the bedding from Olive kids site. It looks really blue in this pix but it's not that blue. It's lighter.....but I just love that pillow sham! I think Aaron will love it too. Here is a link if anyone is interested in Olive Kids: http://www.olivekids.com/

Pictured above is the bed I bought for Aaron. Finally getting a big boy bed. His crib was a convertible crib/but I highly suggest to anyone that those are a waste of money. As they are ready for toddler beds so fast and are in them so little/and than it's time for a twin bed. I am hoping this bed will last him for along while. We aren't getting the trundle. We thought about it but decided after measuring his tiny size room/that it wouldn't work. I kinda copied my favorite pottery barn idea on this bed too. PB wanted way too much for their beds. So I found this one from JCPenney online. It was the same color as that pottery barn bed and I was looking for a cottage type/bead board bed and found this one from JCPenney. Love the color too and I think the color will match his already white furnishings in his room and the blue bedding set. The bed is actually black but it looks blue just like in the picture above. I am excited to get his room put together. It will be fun to change it up.




These are fun drawer pulls that I search HIGH and LOW over the Internet to find. Olive kids were out of these for the Trains,Planes, and Trucks .........so I search alot of websites and almost gave up/but tried one last search effort and found them. However, I knew it could be "chancy" since I knew they were out of them everywhere. Sure enough ....they only ended up shipping me the truck and train. They said the plane was on back order. Luckily, I had order a few extra so I still have enough to do his drawers. I am putting these on Aaron dresser in his room. Since I am not buying him a new dresser/and his dresser is WHITE....I thought I would jazz it up with these pulls and tie in the theme of the room to the dresser.




Above: is a peg board I found online that someone makes them to coordinate with Olive Kids stuff. I thought it was fun so I purchased it to go with his OK stuff.

The other pix on the right: is just another extra blue sheet set I ordered from Olive Kids. It was discontinued item and I got a heck of a deal on it.....Whoooo hoo...love deals! Plus, I thought Aaron will be peeing in his bed alot ...so it doesn't hurt to get extra sheets. LOL!




I needed some art prints for his wall.....so I got the coordinating three pictures. Just like shown in this pix above. I wish I could say these were cheap but they want way too much money for basic looking prints.




Another set of drawer knobs. I thought if I put all those shaped pulls on every pull for the drawer it would be too much of the same. So I ordered these to put on as the main drawer handles and I will coordinate the shaped ones with these throughout his room. As his night stand could use pulls too and maybe his knobs for his closet.

Here is another view of the pillows I got to jazz it up in his room too. The plane pillow is double sided/has firetruck on the other side. I plan on putting this on top his toy chest at the end of his bed.

The Train pillow will go on his bed.


That's it with his room plans. I can't wait to dig in and change it up. We are waiting for awhile til we have time to do this project. In the meantime we have to find a mattress and some stain, wetting resistant mattress pads. The biggest part of redoing Aaron's room will be putting in the new wall border and repainting. Right now I have a chair rail and a previous border we need to get out of there. To do that we have to take the chair rail off and take down the wallpaper that is on the bottom half of the wall. We are keeping the faux painting that is on the wall now. That is on the top half of the wall. The chair rail and border separate faux painting from the wallpaper. Confusing I know....but I promise to take a pix of the before and after. Whenever we get around to fixing up the room. Aaron is excited to get his big boy bed. Here's hoping it will all work together like I am picturing in my head~hee~ I love to decorate.........so this is my latest project.