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Boy’s Room Makeover: Sherwin Williams Perfect Palette-Part 3…The Reveal and a Giveaway!

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Oh boy, oh boy! Today is the day, the big reveal! I get to show you how I turned our ugly guest bedroom/office/dumping ground of randomness into Noah’s very own big-boy room! You might remember my posts here and here where I talked about the “before” and “my inspiration” for his room makeover. Well, before we go too far, let’s take a little looksie at the before pictures one more time, since I just showed you the after. Are you ready to cringe?
The Before

Yup. Remember that ugly wallpaper? That awful bed? All that junk? Well, say good-bye because it’s all gone. Well, not all gone, some of it just put away properly instead of thrown into the room.  Garage sale inventory and an organized basement were two more great perks from this room makeover, holla!
The After

We had the bigger furniture for his room already. We just converted his crib frame into the full-size bed option it had and pulled the matching dresser in from the room he shared with Penelope.
The Before

How about another before shot? This is the other side of the room, directly across from the bed. Oooh, baby! Not a pretty sight, eh? Full of all the kids’ books we own, entertaining supplies, college textbooks from the good old days. Ah well, it’s all organized and put away nicely now.
The After

And now! So much better.
Now remember I used Sherwin-Williams new Chip It! tool to find my perfect color palette.
This is the picture (above) that I “chipped” with Sherwin-Williams’ new Chip It! button. This button lets you use any picture you find online or upload yourself to create a perfect palette for inspiration. You can get the Chip It! button just like the Pin It button for Pinterest. First you drag the ChipIt! button below to your toolbar.
Chip It!
Whenever you spot a photo online that you like, just click the ChipIt! button and then click the photo itself. And voila! You get the picture’s paint colors. Simple Simon, dudes.
By using the ChipIt! button I was able to pull colors into the room that were similar to my inspiration picture. I pulled in the gray, blue and orange colors and then added the green since Noah loves green (his two most favorite colors just happen to be green and orange). I also found the perfect color coordinating (and holy cow is it soft!) organic fabrics from Birch Fabrics over at my lovely blog sponsor, Fabricworm to use to make pillow covers, wall art and re-cover a lamp, too. (I showed you how to recover a lamp in this post here.  and I’ll show you how I made the pillow covers later along with a few other pieces I did too!)  With these additions, the room had nice pops of color throughout and the fabric brought the bed area and reading nook area together nicely.

**The fabrics I used are Ellie Fam and Commute both lines are organic cottons from Birch Fabrics found at Fabricworm.

Fabric Covered Wall Art in the Reading Nook

I decided to paint his room Lazy Gray instead of Sensuous Gray from the ChipIt! board, as the former is a wee bit lighter in color and seems to work better in his room, which is really only 10 x 12 feet. It only has one window — so it doesn’t get a whole lot of light — and I felt this paler shade of gray didn’t make the room feel too dark and closed in.
I added a pop of coordinating orange color to his window by making a simple valance/cornice board with orange fabric (tutorial to come!)  I opted for a valance instead of drapery because of the room-size, plus three little ones I know seem to think curtains are just really long napkins. 😉

Here is the view opposite the window:

I used Abacus Pool from Birch Fabrics to re-cover a plain lampshade from Ikea (tutorial found here!) and to pull that pretty shade of blue into the room.

Noah made his own wall art for over his bed, what a kid! To go with the theme of the fabric used in his room, he drew a plane, train, car and bike and wrote each word above the picture, this was also good writing practice for him 🙂  I framed them in simple white frames from Ikea.

I used Dana’s Rollie Pollie pattern and home decor fabric from Ikea to make a fun (and giant!) stuffed pillow for Noah to sit on while he reads books in his book nook. Instead of filling it with stuffing, I just filled it with the tens of millions of stuffed animals we have accumulated over the years. Perfect since now they are all outta sight, outta mind!

And we actually have had these little piggies on Noah’s dresser pretty much since he was born. They are from Ikea, though they don’t carry them anymore. They add a nice pop of color and touch of green to that corner of the room. I love how he put a band-aid on one of their legs to tell them apart. He said, ‘The one with the band-aid is named “Parade” and the other one’s name is “Ice Cream.”‘ How cute that he named them!
Okay, so that’s it. Room makeover complete! What did you think? Any questions?

Now onto the giveaway!
To enter, tell me about a room in your home that you’d like to make over using the Chip It! Tool for a chance to win a $1,000 Visa gift card and $200 Sherwin-Williams gift card.

Rules:

No duplicate comments.
You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:
a) Leave a comment in response to the sweepstakes prompt on this post
b) Tweet about this promotion and leave the URL to that tweet in a comment on this post
c) Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post
d) For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.
Entries from all participating blogs will be pooled for winner selection; only two entries per household. This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
The Official Rules are available here.
This sweepstakes runs from 7/23/12-8/10/12.
Be sure to visit Sherwin-Williams’ brand page on BlogHer.com where you can read other bloggersí posts!

XOXO,

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    Comments

    1. Allison C says

      The room looks great! We just bought our first house and there are so many rooms to redecorate, but one is just beyond hideous. They had denim curtains and a striped wall of cream, white, green, and blue. I have painted about 1/2 the wall already and it has taken me two days to do just half of the room. Many layers of paint were required. I also want to make over our sitting room (aka soon to be game room) which has this ugly green gloss and matte strips as well. That is not going to be fun to get rid of either. And then there is the kitchen….

    2. Amanda says

      I would love to make over my bedroom. When we moved into our house I focused first on the rooms that other people would see and in the process have completely neglected my own room. The walls are just stark white and I don’t have so much as a picture hanging in there. It is sad!

    4. Kandice says

      We’re moving into a new house, and my toddler will be transitioning into a new room – perfect for a complete makeover!

    6. Tara says

      I would lone to decorate my kids room we just got our first house to live in as a family and I am dying to nest in it a little bit!

    7. Jen Nelson says

      Very nice, I love the color on the walls 🙂
      I am still waiting to start my 4 year old sons room, he still has all his baby decor up and light green walls, he keeps telling us “I’m 4 now, can I have a big boy room”! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂

    9. Kathy G says

      I have similar ugly wallpaper in my dining room and I would love to take it down and give the whole room a do-over. I found a photo of some wallpaper in a Pier One catalog that I love so I am going to attempt to use the Chip It tool to get the wallpaper colors. (It was just striped paper so I should be able to imitate it with two colors of paint!)

      Thanks for the opportunity with the contest. Love your gray room, it’s perfect for boys.

    10. Mommarock says

      I would make over my craft room. It was my son’s room before I moved in. It has flat paint on the walls now, oh, and dirty foot prints on white walls. Yeah, nice huh! I really just moved in there, and the beautiful fabric that I have planned to move in there, deserves beautiful walls as well!

    11. Karen says

      We just redid out bathroom and would love to do our bedroom next! I love the big boy room! It looks amazing!!

    12. Sarah says

      What a great room! My four-year-old son’s two favorite colors are green and orange, too! Haha. I would love to make over my 11-month-old daughter’s room…we just moved, and her room is MUCH bigger, so all of those white walls are overwhelming!

    14. Courtney says

      The room is awesome! I’d like to redo almost every room in the house (we just moved here), currently I’m working on the dining room!

    16. C and M says

      The room looks great!! I am so excited to try out Chip It for my son’s room makeover. We’ve been in our house almost 2 years and his room hasn’t been painted or completely decorated yet.

    18. Claiborne Snyder says

      I love the Rollie pollie! It’s storage, it’s a chair, it’s awesome!

    19. Melanie Brown says

      My kitchen! We’ve been talking about doing a makeover since we moved in 6 years ago, but it’s hard to get going. We have bought a backsplash already, but need to find counter tops first so we can install. This would give us some motivation and money to get the project started!
      The room turned out lovely. I also have a son who wanted orange, so he has grey walls with an orange racing stripe around the room.

    20. Bobbie Mackey says

      We finished the nursery for the baby last year, so this year we are hoping to get our sons room done. I really like these grey walls. It would be easy to decorate with, even with his changing interests.

    24. kitty crafter says

      wow, what a transformation! The room I want to re-do using Chip It! would actually be my son’s bedroom too. It’s currently a sad, drab yellow and he loves orange. You’ve inspired me to give his room a try, thank you!

    25. Kelly says

      It looks amazing!

      I’d re-do our bathroom using Chip It! It is just borrrrrring white and boring tan tile and we’ve done nothing with it since moving in 6 months ago…and trying to make a dent in every other room of the house! 🙂

      Thanks for the great giveaway!
      KRDuttine at gmail dot com

    26. Lesley says

      I have to start by saying that I absolutely LOVE the artwork above the bed! PERFECT!!! This tool seems wonderful. I can’t wait to try it out. We started building an addition (actually more than doubling the size of our house) four years ago after we had our first child. My husband is doing all of the work himself and we are buying materials as we can afford them so it is taking quite a while. We have since had two more children and I am pregnant with our fourth in four and a half years due in September. My husband hopes to have the space livable by the end of this winter! We will have four new bedrooms to decorate, a new playroom, a new craft room, a new living room and we have also decided to homeschool… so I will have a whole new school room to decorate as well. We would LOVE some help financially and creatively with all of the new spaces that will finally be done after all of this waiting and hard work!!! I can’t wait to play around with this tool!!!

    33. Anonymous says

      My 6 kids decided to trade around rooms so now my boys are in a pink bedroom… I really need to redo the rooms! Thanks and your new room looks great!

    34. AbigailShim Frog in my pocket :P says

      wow, well for us we want to makeover all our rooms. We just moved in here a few months ago. But the room I cannot wait to paint and remodel is my boys room. It used to belong to girls. So there are huge flowers running up the walls and butterflies all over. pink blue and purple. Its awful for my boys, Being that they are into super heros. :)i cannot wait to make them a super hero room.

    35. Angela Paris says

      WOW this looks so great! My kids share a room, Ethan is 4 and Livi is 16mo. I’d like to makeover the room to suite them both but still be coordinated!

    39. Alice says

      We are planning our nursery and still need help with color schemes – this will really help as I have some images in mind that would be wonderful as color inspirations.

    40. Alice says

      We are planning our nursery and still need help with color schemes – this will really help as I have some images in mind that would be wonderful as color inspirations.

    41. Erin says

      i would use it for my kitchen. the walls are a black textured wood paneling with orangey wood cabinets on one side of the room and creamy white-washed cabinets on the other side. it’s hideous!

    42. justjenn says

      I would have commented on this fabulous makeover without the giveaway! What a great transformation it is. I’ll bet he is so excited.

      If I were to win something I would re-do our living room walls. Our English bulldog puppy has chewed through our mantle so we need to re-do one entire wall and figured we should re-paint everything to spruce it up.

    46. hollymade says

      Cute room! I would love to redo our living room. Right now it’s pretty boring, no color and nothing on the walls. It could use a little style!

    47. Heidi says

      I’d like to redo our basement library. Currently forest green with dark cherry furniture; cozy but a bit dark, especially in our long dark winters. I want something lighter, and some way to disguise all my craft supplies!

    49. Katelyn says

      We would love to redo our downstairs basement into a functional tv/playroom! The wood panel fireplace would look much improved with a fresh coat of paint!

    52. jadaksmom says

      My bedroom needs a wall make-over in a BAD way. We just updated the bedding and the walls are just horrific. Luckily until it can fit in the budget I have blinders on.

    57. Entwined Essentials says

      We live with my in-laws and have ended up taking over all of their bedrooms downstairs. Because of this my daughter has to share her space with the computer/art supply cabinet/play room for all the grand-kids. I would love to be able to redo this room.

    59. Anonymous says

      I’d redo the formal living room, which in our homeschooling home is where you find the computer, bookcases, more bookcases, piano, and couch. Kel from Lmessimer (at)aol (dot)com

    60. Ramona says

      You did a fabulous job! Love, love, love the colors. I love that he drew his own artwork inspired by the fabric. So special!

      I actually bought the same green strip fabric you used for the floor pillow from Ikea a couple weeks ago. (will be used for a bag. bought an awesome white cotton with black sketchy designs and pops of the same green that will be used for the lining.)

      Yes, I definitely could use ChipIt. I just finished a bathroom and have to start on the second one in a couple weeks. Then it’s on to the living room. We’ve been in our house for 22 years and are past due for a facelift. Thanks for the great post.

    63. Kira says

      Love the room makeover! We just bought a brand new house and all the rooms are the same color. My kids rooms need some more spunk. I would use ClipIt to makeover my little girls room. She wants purple and I would use clip it to match the colors of the bedspread she wants.
      kiragraff(at)gmail(dot)com

    66. Carmen says

      I love the room! My daughter is almost ready for her BIG GIRL bed. I think its time for a room makeover for her too!

    69. DeniseMarie says

      So cute – I love grey! My office desperately needs a makeover. I’m currently staring at bare, blank white walls and too much stuff that needs organizing.

    70. Jessica says

      Awesome!! This is a grand makeover! I would love to redo our living room and make it more usable for our family. It’s the only room where we have for living space and for the kids to play. Would love to make the basement a more kid friendly area too. I would love a room makeover in my home! 🙂

    80. Ashlee says

      I love the room! The colors are perfect. We have been wanting to make-over our master bedroom. It’s the only room in our house we haven’t put much work into.

    82. Houseful Of Nicholes says

      I would love to make over our master bedroom. Right now it feels like another room in my very large daycare-esque house. I need it to feel like an escape from the day for my husband and me. Pronto! With four children, one bedroom to escape to is a huge luxury!

    84. Brielle says

      I would love to make over our living room. Since we were married 4 years ago, this has been the room that has collected gifted and mismatched furniture and accessories. Currently there are 4 different types of mismatched colored wood furniture which is off-set with modern armchairs, a flowered couch and a blocked multi-colored rug (not the colors of the flowered couch).

    86. Juliane says

      I would love to make over most of my house but the room I would most like to help is my bedroom. I moved into my grandmother’s house after she passed away and at the time I wouldn’t/couldn’t change anything but 9 years on it is definitely time for a change. The walls are an odd minty green and I have cheap curtains that don’t clash with my duvets but don’t go with them either.

    90. Michelle Hudak says

      My daughter’s bedroom. She just turned 16 but the wallpaper border on her room was installed when she was 3 and she’s no longer into flowers with smiley faces on them and butterflies. Time to turn her room into a “big girl” room, I suppose {{sigh}}.
      shel704 at aol dot com

    92. Tammy says

      I would love to redo the office. The walls are white, the carpet is nasty and its just junky. Need to clean it up and make it work as an office.

    93. JoEllen says

      I would love to makeover my kitchen! All of my other rooms have been redone in the last little while and my kitchen is patiently waiting for its turn =)

      joellenzafacon at gmail dot com

    94. Carla H says

      Great job on the room – it’s so inspiring! I have 10-year old triplet boys who are moving into their own rooms this summer. With three different personalities, my boys have picked out the theme for each of their rooms and have also picked their bedding. I plan on grabbing all the colors for their rooms from their bedding and using it to paint the walls and lots of their wood furniture! ChipIt will be perfect for that!

      couponcarlah@gmail.com

    95. Tenia says

      I would love to redo our master bedroom and I love SW Tidewater with so many of their grays, Big Chill, Pewter Cast, Night Owl.

    96. Hunter Cox Family says

      I love to see the transformation of rooms! There is so much you can do to make a space beautiful! If I could use the chip it tool and update a room it would be the master suite! I would love to update that area with a fresh coat of paint!

    97. Dianne says

      Looks great! You have mentioned that your son and daughter previously shared a room. I have a 3 year old girl and 6 year old boy who have to share a room for a few more years and would love suggestions on how to decorate. Please help!

    98. Anonymous says

      i love it! i’m doing our nursery and have considered a similar color palette! scg00387 at yahoo dot com

    100. Amy b says

      I would love to do my boys room as it is still the same red it was when we moved in 3years ago and used it as our daughters nursery

    101. Christine says

      Omg that fabric globe is so adorable!! I would love to bring a little style into our bedroom. We put all our effort into the living and dining room but the bedroom is just hodge podge.

    103. mel says

      I would like to redo my room because the paint is 10 years old & has black smudges and has marker stains from little kids. It’s time for a change!

    108. mara says

      Sweet I can use this button when I find inspiration on pinterst but no color information, thank you so much! I will definitely use this to find the color for my kids shared room, it needs a repaint, since we now have both a boy and a girl in the same room. grecomara at gmail dot com

    109. Dallas Ann says

      I would love to redo our family room. After just having a baby, the older kids and I spend a lot of time in there. I’d love to spruce it up and add some color to our lives.

    110. Rachael says

      I’d re-do the spare room in the home we just bought. It’s a horrible shade of Bubble Yum! pink with Winnie the Pooh wallpaper halfway up the wall. Bleck!!! Oh the things I could do if I won!!! 😉

    111. Marlene says

      The colors coordinate perfectly in this room and really made it look like it was done by a designer. It looks beautiful.

      I would love to do over my office and make it a relaxing gray like your son’s bedroom.

    113. onescrappychick says

      Oh boy, which room would I pick? It would be a toss up between my upstairs bathroom, my bedroom, my living room and my kitchen! 🙂 Love your son’s room, you did a great job!!!

    114. RitaMarie says

      Your new big boy room is great. Love the colors. I have a catch all, not very pretty room that I want to turn into our reading/quiet room or I could do my son’s room, it could definitely using sprucing up.

    120. Lynn H says

      Great job on the room makeover! I would like to redo our master bedroom. The chip it tool sounds fun. I love Sherwin Williams paint!

    123. Anonymous says

      My 16 year old daughter’s bedroom. She’s been bugging us for a while now, she wants to re-do her room. It’s a mess. It needs a good paint job!!! Winning this would give us a great big head start!

    124. DeniseL says

      I love the calming grey color you used. Perfect for a boy’s room. As for house I need the chip it for every room, but especially our master bedroom. That room is awful – paint is just the first step 😉

      dmarie824 at aol dot com

    130. angie lilly says

      I would love to makeover my kitchen usign this tool! It is such an awesome tool! Its like this website, Design Seeds, that I follow and love but you can use your own pics!!!
      Angie
      14earth at gmail dot com