Teen boys bedroom makeover! {Newbie party started}

Ideas for decorating a teen boys bedroom
My son Alex who is a freshman in High school asked me a few weeks ago if I could update his room to a 

Boys "teen" room. Apparently he was over the Magic picture and red, white and blues. I did not see anything wrong with his current room.  However, I understood his feelings and said I would see what I could do on a small budget. I am all about budget decorating!

My budget was $100.00.  I went slightly over, but that's OK it was worth it in the end.

Let's take a look at his old room first.

{Before}

Not a great photo, but it was with my old camera.
Now onto the current look.
Teenager style...

I wanted to incorporate a little music..as he is in the Marching band at school and plays the trombone..he loves it!

Recipe for success...nothing wrong with a little inspiration.

The pharmacy light I had in our family room until recently when I found an old cool one.

I bought this long wonky picture frame. I loved the graphics that were already there, and just replaced the center one with some sheet music.

Created a gallery wall from things I already had.  I painted the star black, as it was previously red.

Bought some new comfy bedding.

Added a few black faux leather pillows..better known as pleather in my vocab.

My son's dream is to go to Clemson University.  He wants to be a Medical Doctor.

We could use a Dermatologist in the house for the future of his Mother's skin of course.

I may in time add more to the gallery wall. For now, I used what we had.

This was no easy gig though. I wish Mike would have helped me. Lots of holes and patching later.

I  also took the drum shade off his free standing light and added to the ceiling fan.

I made his curtains some time back from drop clothes.
tutorial here

I taped them off and hand painted them.

They still work in the room, so no need to change them.

Displayed some more of his special stuff, his big hobby is still Airsofting, aside from his music.

Cute little card from his Girlfriend on Valentine's day.  I also bought this wooden I think book display at Goodwill for a buck.  I found this neat old music book as well for a$2.00.

It is from 1940 and has a lot of great music history in it.

Hope you enjoyed Alex's room makeover as much as I did doing it.

He was pretty happy!

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I can't sew for nothing!

Well,  let me retract that a tad, I can hem a pair of pants if I had to, thanks to my Mom showing me years ago.

I am in LOVE with stitch witchery, it truly is amazing stuff.

I showed you my painters tarp curtains

HERE and HERE...

I bought another canvas the other day and thought I would attempt some pillow making.

EASY PEASY once again.

I started with this...

I started with my square, which I used a slip cover from another pillow as my template Canvas came from Walmart, however you can get paint canvases of course at Home depot and Lowes as well.

I then used stencil tape  to create one wide stripe, then I painted it with a craft paint, you can  also see my kitchen recipe stencil I have taped here as well. STENCIL came from Hobby lobby.

As you can see, you would never know this was not hand or machine sewn.
  What I did after I stenciled is put my stenciled square face down on top of the one another with the stitch witchery at all but one end, I cut long strips to put across each end.

I took my iron and put it on steam and ironed across each section carefully.

I love how neat the stenciling came out too. I used a very small artist brush for the stenciling part and did my words  randomly

 I tied the bottoms with some twine as the pillow was too fat and I could not pull it together to use the stitch witchery.

From just one paint canvas, I could probably make 10 pillows.
I must get busy.
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First one was a smashing hit!

So get your most creative posts up and ready, and be ready to  make some new friends.

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Who knows you may just meet your new BFF, and you can remember when and where it happened!

In the meantime, can you figure out what I am doing?

 No I am not going to the Dentist, although I am late for my 6 month check up, and you all know what a Teeth freak I am...not good..

 Hmmm...I am not going into someone else's home and causing trouble over there....

 I am listening to tunes right now....

As I prepare to make my chili for the super bowl party.

So what do you think I am doing in between, any guesses, Bet you have no clue!

Link will be up later on tonight.....see you then. Have fun watching the SUPER BOWL!

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