Over the summer someone gave us a car bed. For free. Also? My son, Tegan is obsessed with hotwheels so this worked out perfectly. I have been wanting to do his room ever since. I just could not figure out what to do with it. The bed, though it was perfect, was blue. BLUE. I did not want to do primary colors. After racking my brain for months, I tabled it. He was just going to have to pretend that he was in a car driving through a jungle room (his baby room theme)

All this thinking gave me the itch to paint.

A SOMETHING MUST BE PAINTED sort of itch. I turned to the kitchen. After about a week I headed to the paint store. I got my paint and headed home. After I painted large splotches all over I decided that I hated it.

Awesome.

I did not have an idea for his room and now I’ve polka dotted the kitchen with molded mushroom paint in the process.

Oh, and who keeps paint colors for touch ups? You do? Shut up. I know. It’s like painting 101.

But right then as I was sort of besides myself in the kitchen the whole car room just came into my head.

You see though the color was molded mushroom in the kitchen, it looked macademia goodness for Tegan’s room.

And here it is.

–I love the brick paneling even if I did curse each section going up.

–I threaded the light wiring behind the walls. I had to put large holes, but I think it makes all the difference not seeing the wires.

–The train table is covered in a punched metal wrapping paper that I used spray adhesive to put on

–The shelf is an Ikea shelf that I painted black and then used shelf paper for each shelf

–The black road on the wall is actually chalk board paint. It takes 3 days to cure and this is probably the only picture I’ll ever have of it looking pristine. But you know what? I’m ok with that.

–The large car above the road is an adhesive wall sticker

Voila.