Our New Home: My Teenage Son’s Room

Earlier in the week, I showed you our home tour {here}.  In it, I showed a quick snapshot of the window treatment in my son’s room, with promises to come back later with another post showing you inside of his “man cave.”  I took pictures earlier in the week, but at the wrong time of day, since the sunlight was streaming in the window.  But it’s been gray and cloudy the rest of the week, and I haven’t had good light to reshot the photos, so I finally decided just to go with what I have!

We’ve been making the transition over the past year or so to a more grown-up color palette and decor.  You can see his red, white, and blue “little boy” room {here}.  I made very few changes–just took out the red, white, and blue accents and added red and gray ones.

I’ll do a source list another day, but the color on his walls is Sherwin-Williams Grayish.  The powder room is the same color.

I was kind of going for an industrial look.  The galvanized pipe curtain rod is {here}; I love how it turned out!

We’ve decorated using a mix of his dad’s Army-guy stuff (still cool to a 13-year-old–really boys of ALL ages!) and vintage pieces from his grandfathers and great-grandfathers.If you’ve read other posts on his room, you’ll recognize most of the same pieces–the boy does NOT like change!I made a small gallery wall over the bed.  It took some arranging and rearranging, but I think I worked the symmetry out pretty well in the end.  I’m going to get a different bookshelf from World Market, but I’m still saving my Craigslist dollars before I buy it! 

 

 

Boys’ rooms can be tricky to decorate, at least in my opinion, but he’s satisfied with how it turned out, so I think we’ll keep it this way for awhile!

I’ll be back soon with a source list.

Thanks for stopping by!