bloggers ate my babies: new and improved big boy room

we never really redid hayden's room after he got out of his crib years ago. we left up the star border and just added a comforter and pillows that also had stars on them. but there was no real big room renovation.
now that we had to get bunk beds in that room so that talan and hayden could share a room, we figured it was the perfect opportunity to totally redo the room and make it into a real boys room.
after dave put down the original comforters i had wanted, i found some at ikea...and for only $19.99!! sure beats the original comforters with a price of $80!
i had decided on a skateboard themed room and knew that it would be bright. much different than the rest of the house! but what i had in my head would be perfect for hayden and talan.
we took home a ton of blue paint samples and narrowed it down to 3 choices and then had hayden pick the one he liked the best. he ended up picking the color i was leaning towards which worked out great. i also picked up a bit of lime green paint to paint some of the accessories in their room.
on the weekend i started painting the room, we also ordered the bunk beds. we figured we would wait to order them until we knew the painting would be done.
a week later, the bunk beds arrived. but unfortunately, they were damaged during shipping. we had to then wait for them to ship out new ones to us. in the meantime, we decided ups would most likely not want the old ones back, so dave put up the bottom bunk as it only had some slight dents that you really couldn't see anyway once it was put together and up against the wall. we figured we would just store the new bottom bunk that they were sending and one day use it as another twin bed.
we got the bunk beds the very next week and dave went to work putting it together as soon as he got home. as he was taking out all of the parts i noticed a bit of the wood on the top bunk headboard looked a little odd. when we got closer to check it out, we realized it was again broken.
at this point we were beyond frustrated. the house had been a mess for over 2 weeks and we were told we needed to keep the broken beds and boxes just in case ups wanted them back. at this time we realized that the 1 mattress we do have (we were only planning on having to buy 1) was so thick it left very little room under the bottom bunk and would be too far above the rail to go on the top bunk. so we set out searching for a thin, but decent, mattress.
a little over a week later we finally got our third set of beds which turned out to be good. finally!!!
a few days after dave put the beds together we went out and bought a new mattress for the top bunk and hayden was so excited to finally be able to get to sleep up top! we decided that for now, the mattress we do have would be good enough for talan for awhile. it is a little tight under there, but he's not even 3 so it'll work for now.
once the beds were up we started buying and getting all of the accessories together for the new skateboard themed room. i bought 2 skateboard decks that we would use as artwork and then found 5 blank decks on ebay that we would turn into a coat hanger and shelves. i also bought new letters to spell out the boys names and painted them green to put above the windows. dave got to work getting all of the hardware and building the shelves and coat hanger which we used skateboard wheels for the pegs. i also went out with mom to buy material and she graciously made curtains for the room (again!)
it all turned out great and we were finally able to put the whole thing together the other weekend. there may be a few things we add in the future, and we may paint some of the blank skateboard shelves but for now, it's done and we ALL love it!!!

walking into hayden and talan's new room: