Our Kids Room Makeover

So here it comes the long awaited project we have been planning to complete “Our kids room makeover”. We wanted to have a space where our kids can have all their things in there, have fun by themselves at least for sometime without our surveillance. Yes that was our goal, to keep us free and be on their own :P.

We started making a list of things we wanted in the room to plan our space. So we wanted to have an activity area in one corner, a chalkboard over the wall, an art desk, lots of storage for toys and books, their bed and a reading corner, provision for TV in case they have to play video games. We planned out the space by selecting our furniture pieces and assigning the corners they can all go.

This is the list of furniture pieces we have used in our room from Ikea.

• KURA Ikea reversible bunk bed.
• 2 pieces of STUVA/FOLJA
• 2 pieces of TROFAST storage
• TROFAST Storageboxes
• Leather handle for Stuva bench
• Worldmap rug
• Bedding and accent pillow cases from crate and barrel and shein.

we have taken some inspiration from pinterest for our wall decor and activity area and have decided to go with a 3d hills look for the wall from above the bunk bed we were going to place in the corner of the room.

This is the room where we have already installed the wood trim and painted the wall with chalkboard paint we got from lowes.

We have marked the measurements of the bed on the wall and made rough sketch of how the hills should go over the bunk bed.

We then made a plan of what the measurements of the hills should be on paper before we print it on the plywood.

We first painted the walls before doing the plywood job.

The paint colors that we used on our wall are BEHR undersea shade and grey is BEHR Imperial Grey. We have also added traingle wall decal from amazon later.

And these are the colors we have used for the hills.

Most of our job was done with 2by 4s, 1by 4, huge sheets of plywood for the hills and the ceiling sheet we wanted to add which is about 2 by 8 and marked the hills as per the measurement and started cutting the plywood.

This is the dry run of how the cut panels on the wall.

The below video gives a complete tutorial of how we painted the panels, made the activity area and how we fixed it to the wall.

TIP: We have placed a block of wood to hold the sheets in place for us to make it easy to screw it to the wall.

While fixing the rock climbing wall, we had to drill some holes in the wall because the rock bolts (came with the set for rocks biught from amazon) were a little long than the width of the plywood sheet we had put up. Checkout this video which shows how we had fixed the plywood panel into the wall.

Also, for the activity rack, we did not want to directly fix it to the drywall since kids are going to hang over it, so we wanted some additional support. So we have taken another plywood sheet, painted it in the background colors and fixed it to the stud on the drywall.

Also, did a clear video on how we installed the ceiling plywood sheet

We have given more instructions in case you dont know how to connect the strip lights.

Hope you liked the videos and do let me know what you think. Due to the covid lock-down we weren’t able to finish the art desk yet, but will keep updating the post when we finish it.

And we made a new addition to the room by adding a kids desk. Ikea shelving are a great choice for hacks. This kids desk has been built over ikea stuva benches. It was a lil tricky at the edges though, but otherwise all it needs is a plywood sheet to get screwed to the bench. If you are using this for kids room, make sure you give good coats of poly/wax to sustain the stains.
We have given 4 coats of poly and 3 coats of wax and the markers are absolutely wipable