Mellow, Yellow Kid Room

I’m sharing a hastily thrown together but cute kiddo room today! This space started as a guest room and was quickly changed into a kid room when it was clear the time had come to split up their shared room and give our kids bedrooms of their own. The change was sudden – we hoped to get hardwood floors in here first – so we are making it work with what we got right now.
The bed and toy shelf came from the old shared room, the Heywood Wakefield dresser from our room in the great dresser swap of 2016. The wall color (an old favorite: Behr Rainforest Dew), curtains (painted and hung on a bamboo rod from the nursery), and photos were all guest room relics, which I kind of anticipated keeping when this transitioned into a kid room. The stars aligned and my child’s current favorite colors are green and yellow so everything worked and stayed. All I needed to do was rearrange, and purge, toys.
The sellout Eames rocker rip-off is the only thing I purchased. I haven’t acquired a real fiberglass chair yet so I did the dirty deed of buying this cheap repro. I feel gross about it, but not gross enough to forego because it makes the space. I almost went with this cheaper rocker, but I was worried it might be school bus yellow (not my thing) instead of a green-leaning chartreuse (totally my thing) so I tracked down this “olive” chair instead and paid a little extra for color assurance. Maybe these two are the exact same chair and I needlessly spent money, maybe not? The color isn’t what I call olive, but it is the exact shade of yellow I was expecting and looking for so I’m happy with the purchase. (Oh, and yes I’m excessive and painted the legs black…)I always get a lot of questions about this fan, so here’s a whole post all about it. The short of it is: I love this 2007 fan model so much (we used in a previous house) that I tracked down two on ebay and spray painted because I’m trashy.The photographs are from a series of miniature golf building photos I took long ago (#artdegree), most from what I will venture to say is America’s mini golf architecture apex: Camelot Golfland in Anaheim, which happens to be the mini golf course of my childhood (#blessed). They add a good amount of wacky for my mini golf loving kid who also loves building who also has a mom that wouldn’t at all be opposed to birthing a future wacky architect.