Bedroom for Ezra

Ezra's room is one of the nearly finished rooms. The door was built last week by Carpenter and he will finish hanging it this coming week. For his decor, I started with 2 shadow boxes of maps & nautical miniatures. I've been saving these for about 8 years - all packed away - as they were given to us by someone wanting to redecorate who no longer wanted them.  We had them in his room when Pastor Tom was over cutting some lumber - he saw them and offered Ezra another large shadowbox that matched them he had owned for years with sailor knots and a map backing.  YAY! We are coming along.

  I choose this fabric for the window valance trying to bring in the water-blue aqua and keep in some of the black accents of the hardware and ceiling fan and also bring in some of the colors of the maps. 

I made the curtain from natural canvas twill and we used metal holdbacks.

I found the mattelasse fabric and it matched just right and so was able to

make him a wonderful spread for the bed.  Neighbors were discarding the

furniture for something new - so we were takers! It goes great in there.

Now we are finally finished and have rearranged the furniture a few times (a woman's perogative!)

 Curtains are finished - and I am making fabric blinds (his are hung and ready) for all the windows as I long ago decided 47$+ per window is too much for the budget since we have 40 windows! And I despise $3 mini blinds! Will post in another blog post on how to make them for under 5$ each!

 Time to rearrange - we like this set up better - it really isn't a big room so this suits better.

 He decided to display some primitve weapons my dad had given him from his years in Asia to complete is decor of "Old World Travels".

 Measuring for curtains and valances!

 We had a large map and didn't really have wall room to hang it so Ezra decoupauged it on his dresser top! Love it! The huge elephant is solid teak wood and was hand carved in Bangladesh and my dad gave it to us.

Time for Ezra to move in his own space!