My little Prince will be turning 6 years old in a few weeks, and maybe I've just been watching Extreme Homemaker a little too often... but we decided to totally re-do his room as a surprise...  He knew we were going to redo his room, but he didn't know any of the details until he entered.

I didn't take a before picture as I didn't want to tidy up the room enough before clearing it out, but it consisted of a normal bed, dresser, nightstand and 2 large bookshelves.  He has always wanted a little brother and a bunkbed, and while the little brother thing is most likely not going to happen, the bunkbed was do-able.  We used the mattress from his previous bed on a board base.... the mattress is a double-sized one.

We spent the week doing prep work with cutting, sanding and staining the boards, and then put it all together on Friday and this morning.  I cut up the old curtains from his room to make a valence for the window and the underside of the bed... now he has a secret place to play or read... I made sure to put a little light underneath so that he can have the curtains drawn, but still have light to read or play by.

Up top, the Princess and I painted a mural as he loves all things Alaska...  The little white tree lights up and we put it on a remote switch so that he can turn it off and on from up on the bed, too.

We left the dresser, and the Prince's only request was to include some sunflowers because he loves sunflowers.... he did specify that he wanted fake ones so that he didn't have to water them.We thought that the cats would probably not be interested, but our young, spunky male named Boo (BTW embarrasing Princess info: when we found him last summer, the Princess wanted to name him Snowball)  was curious and spent some time up on top. 

We had the Prince close his eyes and then revealed the room to him...  He has spent all afternoon jumping up and down saying, "I love my room!"