Now that the boys share a room I get to go all out with our firefighter room! Someday I would love to have the front end of a truck and some hose, but Daddy doesn't have ins like that yet...someday when he's an "old head".....someday.
When #3 and #4 shared the room we had a pretty generic vibe, bright and fun, and gender neutral. Cute enough!
But #3 pretty quickly trashed his cheap IKEA dresser (HUGE surprise), and these boys have way too many toys so we needed a change. We had taken a trip to the Houston Fire Museum and I was totally inspired! I love their setup in the kids playroom! I decided to make a locker instead of a dresser. This picture doesn't show the handles I still haven't put on (oops) or the HFD decals that are on there now.
I was just about to set the old IKEA dresser on the curb, but instead decided to disassemble it. I thought the drawer slides would still be useful. Well it turns out that the "bones" of the dresser were actually pretty good, it was just the horrendously poor materials and construction on the drawers that did it in. Little boys are rough on furniture so it bears repeating, "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!" Anyway, I took the whole darned thing apart, trimmed pieces to make this fit where I needed it, added some shelves, trimmed it out, painted it to match, added some spray painted milk crates that I scored out of my neighbors garage and voila a place for all those fire trucks and fire stations.
I also whipped out some simple ledges one afternoon with wood I got off a pallet that I grabbed out of the parking lot of McCoys! Every afternoon a pile goes out for the taking and I happened to have room in the car for a beautiful 8' pallet with almost flawless 4x8 pine boards! That NEVER happens. So the boys room is coming along. Still a few more things I want to do in there, perhaps a flames painting, or a wood sign that has some firefighter jargon on it.....I'll get around to it someday.
