January 26, 2023

vintage boys room makeover

I love making our home as cozy as possible! I was so excited to redo our boys room into a vintage war room! Both my boys love all things history and war so I knew their room needed to reflect that.

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Here is a before photo of their room. It was unpleasing to the eye and was actual chaos most days. I knew I wanted to brighten up the room with some paint & make the trim a muted color. When we bought our home every single room had this gray paint and it is actually my least favorite color in my home. I feel like gray paint makes rooms look very dark and cloudy. So off to lowes we went for supplies!

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Farrow and Ball has some of my favorite paint colors but their paint is very expensive to buy from their website so I got a free sample card from their website and just have lowes color match for me!

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Room paint colors:

walls- antique white

trim, doors & peg boards: svette sage

*both Farrow and Ball paint colors matched at lowe's

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their peg wall was actually wayyy easier than I thought it would be! It was just a 1/3 board with screw in pegs from amazon [all things linked at end of post] and then I nail gunned the boards in making sure to use a leveler. Once they were attached I went back and found the studs to secure the boards with some screws.

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The pictures from this. room are all thrifted from goodwill or local thrift shops from us! I also will buy pictures thrifted just to use the frames and print things from etsy or online! Picture frames can get really expensive so I usually am always picking up some for $1 here and there to have on hand.

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