Marcus's new room

A few of you may remember the daybed incident. If not, you can read about it here. When we decided to move Marcus to a big bed, we just moved the guest bed over and called it good. However, I really wanted to still have a comfortable place for a guest to sleep, but I didn't really want to go buy another bed. It was a conundrum, people. Then one day we were at Savers and Tim saw a wooden toddler bed and suggested that maybe we get it for Marcus so that we could have the guest bed for another year or so. I didn't like the idea, had always felt that toddler beds were a waste of time, and vetoed the suggestion. But as the day went on, the idea began to sound better and better. I imagined that I could paint over the ugly Elmo motif that was currently on the toddler bed. I'd paint it a lovely blue and then paint the pale yellow dresser (leftover color from the sweet baby boy nursery days) the same blue. Then I could get a vinyl letter M and put it on the headboard. Awesome!! So, I sent Tim back to Savers to buy the toddler bed for $20. It wasn't there anymore.

A few days later, I told my sorry tale to my cousin, Rachelle, and she sympathized with me because she is cool like that and then on Monday she called to tell me that there was a toddler bed FOR FREE on Craigslist and it looked like it fit what I wanted exactly. Here it is before:

Bleh, not quite sure what they were going for here. But it does have the headboard I wanted.

After. Marcus helped paint the middle boards. Also, did you know that there are a million shades of dark blue? Because there are. It took me forever to decide between Inkblot and Cornflower. Cornflower won. I haven't got the vinyl M yet, but it is going to go right there on the headboard. Doesn't it just look like what you imagine Baby Bear's bed looked like in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears?"

Here's the the dresser, sporting its new coat of paint. We also bid farewell to the changing pad that used to sit on top of this dresser. I'd like to get a poster like this one with his name to hang above the dresser, but they are a little pricey.

Marcus likes his "blue room." I also found a cork board at DI for $2.00. We just painted the frame blue and it fits right in. We taped some pictures that are special to Marcus on the board to make it his very own. I'd like to get a magnet board too.

Here's the room from another angle. I'm thinking I'll get a red pillowcase to add another splash of color. Also, I'd really like to find some kid art (bright primary colors--maybe paintings of cars and trucks) for this wall. It is pretty bare right now.

What do you think?