The Untempered Schism

While Oliver and Manuel (The Boys) were in Spain, I did it! I cleaned and decorated Oliver's room. This was something I was SUPPOSED to do when they were in Spain in January, but my back had other plans that ended up with me having surgery in February. So. . . The poor kid's room sat there, all barren. But not anymore!! The best thing about cleaning and decorating was when he said, "Wow, Momma!! My ROOM! I love it!! You're the bestest Momma EVER!" Yep. Totally worth it!

Without further ado, here are the pictures!

Here is his work area. He can color, use abcmouse.com, gaze at the world and country and have deep discussions with Grampy bear.

Here is a far away shot of the same area, just to show the artwork.

Here is his reading nook. It is easier to have his books in bins and baskets, right now. He can't put them on the bookshelf properly--he just stacks them until they topple like a Jenga tower--so the bins work very well. His WONDERFUL PreK teacher had books like this in her classroom and it worked well. There is another large crate of them out of the picture and I have another one tucked away so I can rotate the stock, as it were.

Our reading chair. He is physically almost too big to be rocked, but I love that he still wants to be rocked.

His bookshelf filled with bins for all the little (lonely?) people. . . And cars and trains and puzzle pieces and blocks and a few empty, just in cases. (Two British references, there. I'm not thinking about my mostly imaginary trip to London in January at all. Nope. Not at all!)

A long shot from the other side of the room.

(I'm hoping you're getting the theme. Heh.)

His awesome loft bed. With ALL of his friends waiting for him.

The Milky Way Transit Authority map is crooked, but I wasn't going to climb back up there again to fix it. It isn't crooked anymore, though. Manuel made the climb to fix it.

And what? It that a TARDIS traveling through the Time Vortex? Why, yes. Yes it is! (I hung the map there just in case The Doctor gets lost. Heh.)

A close up of the TARDIS. That was a HUGE PITA to put up, thankfully I had my friend (and Oliver's (Fairy) Godmother), Laura there to help me.

Here is the view from the foot of the bed. That moon and stars mirror was mine during my quasi-hippie phase and I'm glad it fits in with the theme of his room.

Storage under the bed!

The rocket waiting for a train town to be built. There is a train town there now.

A close up of Clifford, Mortimer the Rat and Jacka the T-Rex. 

And on the other side of the dresser sit his new lamp, star turtle and The Wonder Pets!

This renovation didn't cost much. . . We had the art work already (except the big TARDIS poster and the three little frames), all the little red bins I got at the dollar store as well as the wall decals I probably spent $15 there, the three white crates I got at Target for $2.99 each, the TARDIS wall decal was what I splurged on--it was $22 on esty. So, not a ton of investment. I just need to find curtains. That is something that I've been on the lookout for, but never seem to like anything I see.

So. There you have it! And two days in, everything has been played with and read and put back where the things belong! Woo! He really is good about putting things away if he has structure, which he hasn't had in the past. I'm sure, with some gentle prodding, this will work for us.