KRUSE'S WORKSHOP: Kids Bedroom Makeover Part 3

Spending money isn't my favorite pastime but there is one thing I'm always willing to buy - curtains! For Emma and Owen's room, I thought I wanted white wood blinds but quickly realized our windows aren't deep enough for standard 2" blinds. Plus, I was a little worried about the kids yanking on the strings to make them go up or down. It feels like we are constantly opening and closing curtains in that room for privacy and sunlight so the idea of messing around with blinds wasn't appealing. So I switched gears towards curtains - something soft with a subtle pattern.

And this is where Target comes in for the win - AGAIN. I saw these Nate Berkus curtains and instantly knew they were perfect. Although, I had to order them online so I crossed my fingers that the color would look good with the wall color we had just painted, Revere Pewter. As a bonus, they were buy 3 get one free so I paid about $17/curtain, which is pretty reasonable. My heart thudded a bit as I opened the shipment a few days later - but alas, they were a perfect match!

They aren't exactly light blocking curtains, but if they are pulled shut during the day and all of the lights are turned off in the room, it's still dark enough that Owen can get his nap in.

With the curtain selection out of the way, we turned our heads towards the ever growing pile of toys. Now most of the toys are in the kids' old bedroom turned playroom, but I was looking at all of that wasted space under the bunkbeds and knew we could utilize it for storage.

Brent had some old kitchen drawer boxes in his workshop calling my name. Yeah, I know...who has this kind of stuff just laying around? We do. Because you can always figure out a way to re-purpose something so it doesn't end up in a landfill. Add a set of wheels and we've got rolling toy boxes! And these drawers were pre-finished on the insides so we didn't even have to apply laquer to the insides since that was already done!

Brent added some blocking to the undersides of the drawers and attached the wheels.

At this point, I knew we weren't quite done. I didn't want the toy boxes to look like boring old flat boxes under the bed, so I asked Brent to cover the boxes with some hardwood flooring out of the attic of our shop. A friend of ours recently put in new flooring in her home and she let us take the old hardwood flooring that was coming out. There wasn't enough of it to actually use it as floor in our house but this is the perfect kind of material for smaller projects.

I didn't take any photos of the actual process of attaching the flooring to the boxes, Brent just used a pin nailer to attach the flooring to the box from the inside so there wouldn't be any nail holes visible from the outside. He mitered the corners and I filled the tiny gaps with wood filler and lightly sanded before priming and painting.

I was trying to pick a shade of green as close to this coffee mug as possible so I chose the shade on the right. After they were painted, I realized I probably should have chose the one of the left. It is a liiitttllle bit more green and less yellow. The rug I ordered with some green in will be here in a few days so I may end up re-painting the toy boxes if the whole rug situation works out. I'm just feeling like the green I chose is a tiny bit off.