So I’m a proud Mummy of two handsome boys, N & N. If they were a popular confectionary of a similar name usually consisting of chocolate and peanut then my oldest N would be the chocolate, sweet and consistent, and my youngest N would be the peanut, a bit nutty.
These two boys share a room and it needed to be fun…something to help chocolate N be a little less consistent, a little more caution to the wind. Something to help peanut N contain his wild imagination with four walls so it did less collateral damage outside of those… So we started with a bunk bed, a built in wardrobe and their favourite colours. Chocolate N loves red, Peanut N loves blue. They have shared interests in cars, motorbikes and football after that Chocolate N loves Lego…consistent, Peanut N loves snakes, insects and spiders…nutty.
We did the simple things first adding cool car pictures, haynes manual mini curtains and then it was time to let our imagination run. Something for exercise, something for imagination. A beautiful rock climbing wall answered our exercise plans, we painted it in a bright orange and used the brilliantly bright coloured holds to punctuate the expanse. It looked amazing, and even better the boys loved it. We placed a ladder next to it so that they could easily access it if they couldn’t find an easy hold.
For imagination, we looked at the bunk bed. My husband and I being big Volkswagen fans the answer became obvious that bunk bed needed to be a camper! A big red split screen camper van that the boys could sit in and on the “roof” off having adventures scripted by Peanut N and given rules by Chocolate N.
Boys rooms are fun…make room for boys!