teen boy bedroom {the ORC edition} week six: the big reveal!

Today is the end of the One Room Challenge. For this challenge, I chose to redo my 16 years old son's bedroom. His room was never really updated since we moved into this house 6 years ago, so it was time to do something special, before he goes away to college!

And because he will be leaving in 2 years, I wanted to keep the update simple and on the cheap, which I did: I spent about $300 on his room. Not bad for a good paint job, a brick accent wall, and some seriously sturdy shelves.
It all started with a visit to Ikea and this picture:

Brick Master and I really liked the feel of this "room" and realized we could make something like that happened with his room.
So I repainted the walls white, and then we installed one brick wall, the feature wall when you enter the room.

All of his art went back on the wall and then some, Brick Master is a huge Star Wars fan, and he likes to acquire prints when we travel, like the painting from Paris skyline, the cartoon print from the Tate museum in London, the airplanes prints from Pearl Harbor, and the Lego"Free Hugs" from DC. And let's not forget Miss C.'s Star Wars paintings she made for him as presents, or the boomerang Mon Cheri brought back from Australia.
The next thing we addressed was a cool bedding, he currently likes his comforter and bed set so we opted to not change anything there, so instead I finally finished a quilt I had started many years ago.... and it is perfect for the room with its black, white, grey and orange!

don't you love that giant houndstooth? so bold and graphic!
Finally we took care of displaying Brick Master's many collections: of airplanes with this little shelf,

and of tanks, and WWII vehicles, and helicopters, and Star Wars with these shelves below:

(and karate trophies, he is now a brown belt, hoping for the black one soon!)
That's what I called some serious shelves!

I made them out of very popular plumbing parts, it is quite sturdy but expensive, compare to regular shelves.
But it really showcases Brick Master's collection:

perfect view from his bed.
So overall it is a great upgrade of his bedroom for about $300, with $100 for the 4 brick panels, $120 for the shelves (plumbing parts) and about $80 of paint, wood and miscellaneous parts.

And the best part, I have a happy teenager!