Rita has a five-year old daughter and two-year-old son who share a bedroom. A decorating dilemma indeed. What to do, what to do? She definitely didn’t want to neutralize the space into a beige middle ground that neither child was happy with.
So she did what siblings have been doing since the dawn of time: drew an invisible line down the center of the room, boy on one side, girl on the other. Then she joined them together with yellow polka-dot and striped walls and matching green-polka dot sheets.
Spitting up the space really helped improve the flow of the room too, not to mention Rita’s back: no more changing sheets on the top bunk! Rejoice! Take the whole tour on her blog Suburbs Mama.
4 Comments
Michelle
September 25, 2013 at 8:46 AMNice work! However, I honestly think I liked it better before. The polka dots seem a little too feminine for a boy. And, it appears to be a rather small room so I like the idea of bunk beds so that the kiddos have more floor space to use to play.
Brittany
September 26, 2013 at 9:26 AMLove Rita’s blog, her bedroom is almost the exact same as mine (carpet, furniture layout, color scheme, wall slant) so much so that I almost looked out my window and down the street to see if she was a neighbor I didnt know I had with the same house:) and I ALSO have 2 kids sharing a very small room that currently have a bunkbed. I concur on the dreaded changing of the top bunk sheets….I plan to move mine to 2 separate beds in time, and I like the look better, even ifit means less floor space…my kids play in the loft or living room anyway….and the letters are adorable!
Smart Girl
October 18, 2013 at 11:29 AMI totally like the after better! I always try to put beds in the middle of the room just so they take up more floor space. For my kids, open floor space = crap all over the floor, not play space. Love the polka dots! But yellow is pretty girly. Lol.
Jo
November 7, 2013 at 9:49 AMI really prefer the “before” space because it looks like a mix between a boy space and a girl space. The “after” space looks predominantly feminine, with the only nod to masculinity being the blue bed-sheets. The “after” sheets also really emphasizes particular colors being for particular genders: the “before” sheets were much more colorful, despite the primarily blue and pink colors.