Designer Nan Sloan creates a jungle escape in a bedroom shared by two brothers, ages 9 and 11. Taking inspiration from the wild kingdom wallpaper border, Sloan paints the walls a deep green. A cozy seating area is created under the window with a window seat and a fake palm tree created with a yucca branch and silk palm leaves (both from a floral supply store). To make the window seat, Sloan paints a cabinet black and adds bun feet and animal-style napkin rings for door pulls. It's topped with a cushion made from a piece of foam wrapped in a zebra-patterned shower curtain. The beds are put back in place and dressed with new animal-print ensembles. Tent canopies, made from painter's drop cloth and 1x2 boards, are suspended from the ceiling with wire. The drum-style nightstand in between the beds consists of an old nail keg with an oilcloth-covered top. Two coats of magnetic paint are applied to the wall over both desks and framed with bamboo. Sloan cuts animal shapes (traced from cookie cutters) out of magnetic paper to hold photos to the wall. Other design elements include two yard-sale chairs painted with animal-print motifs and photo boxes for storage.
Itemized Design Elements
$40 - two gallons of paint (Hirshfield's - Benjamin Moore - Very Green #2040-30)
$40 - cabinet used as window seat
$14 - bun feet
$6 - animal print napkin rings for door handles (Pier 1 - #1868798)
$19 - shower curtain and foam for window seat (shower curtain - Kohl's, Excel)
$41 - fake palm tree
$78 - two bedding ensembles (Kohl's - Bed-in-a-Bag)
$16 - throw pillows (Kohl's - Delft Blue and Papaya Orange #4721801702)
$70 - tent canopies
$24 - nightstand
$16 - two chairs
$39 - bamboo rods and magnetic paint (bamboo - Pier 1 #1870245; Liquid Magic magnetic paint - Kling Magnetics, Inc.)
$10 - magnetic paper
$59 - two lamps and shades (Target: wood-carved lamps - style 825 #8280319296; animal-print shades - style 732 #2102416680)
$10 - jungle animal wall hook (Pier 1 - #1360289)
$20 - blue and green photo boxes (Target - #5080703086)
$502 - Total Cost
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