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The project:
Being inspired by colourful playrooms and bedrooms we saw online and wanting to use our high ceilings to their advantage, we decided to remodel our daughter's bedroom into a hobbit themed room with different play zones and levels.
We wanted a room that would be fun for years to come and utilise the space in a unique way. We added open storage for toys and books with a built in window seat, a climbing wall up to a loft bed, and a hobbit hole cubby house beneath.
- Materials:
Though the majority of the furniture was sourced from IKEA, the base materials we got from Bunnings online and Bunnings Victoria Point.
- Tools:
A great deal of sandpaper, applicators for joint compound, brushes and rollers, as well as various little tools.
- Step 1:
The first thing I did was plan how I wanted the room would look and how everything would fit together. I used masking tape to measure out where everything would go and assist with visualising the final product. Though things did end up being changed slightly from the taping stage, it helped me decide on products I would use and how I wanted the room to be organised.
- Step 2:
I started with building in the shelves as we were planning to rip out the cupboard and we wanted a place to store everything while we worked. The cubbies we purchaed from IKEA but we used project panels from Bunnings around all the sides to hide the edges and make them look more cohesive.
- Step 3:
Next I ripped out the cupboard and built out the framing for the wall I was replacing it with. The front wall would have an archway into a pantry for the cubby house as well as an upper window that would lead to the loft bed. I didn't have an easy way to get large gyprock panels home and into the space so I used smaller, repair panels over the framing. I regret doing this as it meant I had a lot more seams to fill and smooth out and took a great deal of time. I didn't take many photos of the inside of the cupboard space, but above the archway I built in a floating platform as a halfway space from the climbing wall up to the loft bed.
I also learned doing archways is much harder than Youtube videos make them look. I wasn't super happy with how my plastering went so I ended up doing a decorative trim around the archway.
- Step 4:
Next I planned out the climbing walls by cutting the plywood, laying out the hand holds, cutting holes for all the grips, and eventually mounting it all to the walls. You can also see the hole I cut into the side wall of the cupboard that leads to the floating platform I mentioned before.
- Step 5:
Next we built the loft bed and painted everything white, except for in the upper cubby space which we painted a dark blue.
- Step 6:
We added timber in a decorative design to the top of the loft as a safety feature as currently the loft is mainly a play space and not an actual bed. We also had a new pendant light installed, I digitally drew and had printed the hobbit door tapestry to enclose the cubby house, and I made cushions for the window bench as well as the floating platform.
- Step 7:
The last stage was mostly decorations. We hung curtains, added pictures in the cubby house, as well as shelves in the pantry area. The final touch was adding wall stickers to bring the whole space together and make it feel as though it's a hobbit house with flowers out the front and a tree growing out the top. Our daughter helped with the butterfly stickers :-)
- Step 8:
And that's a wrap. Our daughter and her friends love her room, so we consider it a job well done even if there's some paint mishaps we still need to tidy up. Hope you think so too!
