Owen's Big Boy Room

We moved Owen into his "big boy" room at the beginning of the summer, but I am just now getting around to taking pictures of it and putting it on the blog, oops. When Mike and I talked about how to decorate Owen's room it was obvious that Mike was living vicariously through him, so Celtics it had to be! Actually we had a nice collection of vintage Celtics photographs and recent ones too that we couldn't place anywhere else in the house and thus became the inspiration for the room, down to the paint. I painted the room a very light gray with an accent wall of kelly green. Then I painted two kelly green stripes around the top of the three gray walls. In the corner I painted them in a V to mimic the stripes on the Celtics players' shorts. I have to admit I am very happy with how it turned out.

I also refinished this dresser, which was Aunt Kika's when she was a baby. Originally it was a yellowish white with gold trim and gold handles. After Mike sanded it for me, I painted it bright white, added kelly green trim, and filled the holes from the handles to put pulls instead. The fabric Celtics wall hanging and basketball lamp are from Mike's room when he was little.

Here is a close-up of the antique green glass pulls I found.



{A close-up of my stripes.}

{This is a collage I made of tickets from this past year, as well as a shirt we had autographed and pictures of Owen from his first Celtic's game in Chicago. That was a fun memory having the different players and Coach Doc hold Owen for pictures.}

The inspirational photography collection.



These are house numbers that I collected to be big "O"s.



While I was painting Owen's room he got into the paint and started putting handprints on one of the white walls that I hadn't yet painted. I thought it was cute and decided to incorporate it into the room. So I helped him put this one on the green wall.
Next I promise to put pics of the nursery... I just don't promise when that will be!