A Bit of My Home.

This week over at Kelly's Korner, she is featuring kids' rooms and nurseries, so I conquered my son's room wanting to catch it clean.  Honestly, though, he does keep it pretty neat.  His sister's room is attached to his and is quite a bit bigger, so they always play in there or outside.  He usually only reads in his room.  Violet was trying to clean up her room for my blog as well, but her dad is sick, so we didn't want to bother him as our room is attached to hers and he was sleeping.

Lovely old houses.
 
 Such privacy.

 This is Levi's room from the stairway landing.  When we bought the house, this room had very old olive green carpet,

the kind that looked like it might have been meant for a mini-golf course.

When we pulled the carpet up,

there were old wooden floors,

except that there was black tar-type glue around the edges.

I read that this stuff was hazardous to breathe, so my husband wore a mask and chipped up the heavy stuff, and then I just painted a maroon edge all around to hide it.

I then set about painting the checkerboard on the wood,

which was one of the hardest things for me to figure out because I stink at math, and it takes some figuring to get the squares even on the edges/middle.  My brain was sore.

But I really like it.

It's my favorite of the floors that we did.

 This is the door into his sister's room.

The colors are a very deep maroon and a gray/black.

The quilt on the door was given to me by one of my best friends.  She makes amazing quilts.

The picture on the wall to the left was in my husband's room growing up.

This is the wall behind the door when you walk in.

I keep sheets in the farm cupboard that I painted for the same purpose in our first house.

There aren't many closets in old houses.

 This is an old picture given to me by my aunt.

I grew up as a child near the ocean and had an ocean theme in my room.

I love the ocean.

 Here is my husband's box of Johnny West toys he played with

and his cannon that really shot cannon balls.

It doesn't work anymore.

I can't say that I'm too saddened by that.

 My husband's toy tractor that he used to play with.

 This window holds the things I used to have in my room.

Levi loves the Popeye bank.

 I painted this picture of the ocean when I was in college.  It's a picture of my favorite beach from when I was a child.

 A school project that Levi helped me with.

 I love this picture that hangs over his bed.  I had it over my bed at college.

 He had a thing for ducks for a while, so I painted these for Levi's room.

I found them at an antique store, but one had been glued, so they were very reasonable.

The color was almost all worn off, so I repainted them.

Yes, I'm sure it's not the right thing to do to an antique, but I wanted them for my son, so I didn't care.

 The bedside table was my husband's, but I repainted it.  The bank was a gift from my dad to Levi.

 This looks out onto the stair landing.

Yes, I rocked my babies out there so my Farmer could get some sleep.

It's an old rocker my Grandpa re caned.

 My boy's room is not the typical, but he likes it

for now,

and I'm glad.

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