Superhero Room: Part 5 "The Room"

Superhero Room: Part 5 "The Room"

AKA: Come on, just show us the room already, sheesh!

(By the way, if you are interested in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4, you can link through here)

I was really excited that this little gem came in the mail today. I ordered this Superhero Cape off of etsy.com . The quality is absolutely fabulous and I would recommend it to anyone looking for this type of item. I put it away as a "surprise" for Robbie. With this new room, he has had a lot of cool surprises and I want him to really be excited for it.

So, here is the Northwest corner of the room.

Notice the superhero tin signs at the top of the room? I ordered some more online, but they haven't arrived yet. We should be getting The Wolverine, Captain America, and Spiderman really soon. I liked these signs because they weren't "scary" and intense like the modern superhero stuff. Lots of places were selling those fathead type vinyl clings, but I decided against it. I was afraid it would give him nightmares to see Batman jumping out of the wall at him. My college roommate and I had a life-size cutout of Humphrey Bogart in our dorm room that caused many a late night scream upon entering the room.... anyways....

The nightstand is actually just a little wooden crate I picked up at Michael's and spray painted black. There is a bin under the nightstand for all of Robbie's superhero action figures. You've got the Green Lantern lamp and still room for the "essential glass of water" that MUST be beside the bed to ensure sleep. The new Red Quilt and sham are really silky soft and seemed very well made.

These FUNKO Plushies were an impulse buy (also from Target) and might be my favorite thing we bought for the room. You can get lots of other characters, but at $10 a piece, I had to curb my enthusiasm and limited us to three.... but man, there are some other cuties....

Here is the southwest corner of the room. We may move these letters... We moved the coffee-table-turned-play-table from the living room into the bedroom and added some storage bins underneath.

I got the red, blue, and green bins at Target's HotSpot for $2.50 each. Can you believe they are all filled with toy cars? We also have a Thomas-the-Train Bin and a building blocks Bin underneath the table. All of these toys used to be in our living room! I took pictures of the contents of each bin and added labels.

I also added toy storage in the closet. I bought a plastic 4-tier shelving unit at Lowe's and just used the bottom two shelves. I put the other two shelves out in the sunroom. I got the red & blue baskets at Michael's on clearance. There is a grey bucket on the bottom (same one used for superheroes) from Target's HotSpot for $1.00. On the other side of the closet I bought one of those cheap "pop up hampers" to store the seemingly endless pile of stuffed animals. Plushies need to be weaned down, but I was too tired to deal with it this week.

Below is the Northeast side of the room. The blank space above the trim is where the additional posters will go when they arrive. We still have our video monitor camera up (I LOVE THAT THING) on its little shelf. My art collage is up as well. A new bright red basket for pullups that I hope we will only need for a short amount of time more.

On top of the bookcase (above) you'll see our new "Tot Clock". It is supercool. You set the "wakeup" and the "bedtime" times. The face of the clock is blue when you are supposed to be asleep and yellow when you are allowed up. It also has a button for naps (also blue) and for timeouts (red). Robbie knows that he is allowed out of his room when the clock turns yellow in the morning. To the right of the bookcase you'll see a little patch of darker blue paint.

Sam and I didn't have the heart to paint over the little marks we had made on the wall to mark Robbie's growth, so I kept the paint and turned it into a little billboard on top of one of the cityscape buildings. I painted in a little car in honor of his nursery theme.

We are probably not "done" with this room. After the final few posters arrive and go up, I may decide to change where things are or as Robbie gets older, his needs will change in the room. We'll see. But for now, I am pretty pleased with Robbie's new Superhero room and think it turned out really nice. Robbie's one complaint is that "there's not enough Batman in here, mommy... I really want some Batman...." I keep telling him that he's got a birthday coming up! In the meantime, I'm shopping around for some Batman stuff I guess! Ha!