Boy's Room Makeover

Before

Host Joan Steffend and designer Susie Burke update a young boy's room using an Americana theme with a nautical influence.

• A strip of wallpaper bearing red and white stars is applied across the top of the room. The lower part of the walls is painted a navy blue. The seam where the paint and wallpaper meet is hidden with white trim.
  
• The bunk bed is replaced with a twin-size bed with a trundle underneath. The headboard is painted white and embellished with red-painted wooden stars across the top. The footboard is created out of two table legs and the leaf from a drop-leaf table. A king-size duvet is cut in half and finished with a chambray sheet trim to make two twin-size bed covers.
  
• Hand-towel hooks are used to hang the window valance.
  
• The leftover dish towels are applied to the dresser fronts with spray adhesive, stapled to the back and sealed with polyurethane.
  
• A padded mirror frame is created out of plywood, batting and fabric. Buttons hide the staples and seams. White hooks are added to the bottom.
  
• A desk is constructed out of the other half of the drop-leaf table and mounted perpendicular to the bed with L-brackets.
  
• Two windows are repurposed into a chalkboard and message board.
  
• A reading nook on the floor is comprised of a large red pillow and a lap desk created out of an old medicine cabinet.
  

Fabric Drawer Fronts

Steps:

1. Cut fabric 2" larger than drawer fronts.
   
2. Attach fabric with spray adhesive.
   
3. Secure the fabric to the back of the drawer fronts with staples. Trim excess.
   
4. Seal with polyurethane.

Itemized Design Elements

$57 — wallpaper border (American Blind and Wallpaper Factory: Raymond Waites Country Village — #5801046)
$39 — paint (Hirshfield's: Wash & Wear II - #88119610, color #8466)
$26 — molding
$96 — twin beds (Michaels: wooden stars)
$95 — bedding (T.J. Maxx: Ralph Lauren Home Collection - king duvet cover, #209647; twin flat sheet, #017757)
$42 — valance (JoAnn Fabrics: All the Trimmings — red chenille rick-rack trim, #5698840; Design Studio — blue chenille rick-rack trim, #729290, #720697)
candlestick lamp — #5648795
$35 — dresser (T.J. Maxx: dish towels)
$26 — mirror (Target: white hooks; Hancock Fabrics: Maxant covered buttons — ADB-1R)
$2 — chair
$25 — message center (The Home Depot: chalkboard paint)
$12 — lamp (JoAnn Fabrics: candlestick lamp, #5648795)
$6 — sailboat picture frame (Marshalls: #024054458)
$9 — pillow rest (Target: #067080888)
$15 — lap desk (Office Depot)
$3 — clock
$7 — ceramic cap (T.J. Maxx)
$6 — frame (Marshalls: #008271671)

$500 — Total Cost