Mac's Room...I Found thee Bed!!

Well hello and welcome to the last week of September...holy shit time passes quickly these days.

On that note, this monkey boy...

has somehow morphed into a 3 year old over night and he no longer really fits in here...

Nor do I think he still wants a crystal chandy...actually I'm pretty sure he doesn't yet care but the time will come...sad mommy face:(

I do, however, insist that he keeps this mommy original...

well not totally an original...an IKEA hack...painting over large photograph...but still...I put many hours into it and the beast is staying.

I am also making him keep the rug that I had my sister buy and ship from Target, just because it was such a pain in the ass to get here...and speaking of, let me just for a second go off on a little tangent...I am sick and tired of having to pay ridonkulous shipping/duty/customs fees to get product from the US to Canada...I am also very sick of paying twice as much for the same goods, when technically our dollar is selling for more than the US one...it just sucks beans...it shouldn't be so difficult for me to buy and ship...I don't live in a remote African village for god sakes.

I digress.

Now back to the room...I also want to keep the little sofa - I can't tell you how much that IKEA number has been used...the switch from a rocker to that puppy was genius...use it ALL the time....and it shows...the white is now yellow and well, it's time is up. 

I could re-upholster but spending that much money on a $200 sofa seems a little, well, insane so I need something new...and it has to be cheap...really cheap.

The room is teensy...a traditional bed would jet out and take up most of the floor space so I have been on the hunt for a daybed of sorts...trouble is, most daybeds are girly....like this one...

and as much as I LOVE a feminine room, I must concede that Mac Attack is not a girl..and believe me, despite my efforts to talk him out of it in utero (went something like this...'you will not want to play hockey or football...you'll love rowing and photography...architecture maybe...you'll hate anything dangerous and love to draw') , the kids is definitely all boy...he has so far debunked the idea that babies hear their mothers when still in the belly..he obviously totally ignored my requests.

Anyhow.

He's a boy and I adore him for it...but I still don't want him to play hockey...believe me...as a Canadian, having a boy often means your motherly existence is defined by your willingness to spend 80% of your life in a cold arena yelling at referees...I've seen it happen to way too many a friend and I flat out refuse...there will be NO hockey...well...I'll let him play outside and maybe in a house league once a week sort of deal but zero rep will be happening.

Again, I digress.

Back to the beds.

Although I'm a little over Restoration Hardware at the moment (the whole Belgian/architectural salvage thing is getting a bit way too overplayed for my liking,) I do quite enjoy their baby/child catalogue and am quite smitten with this handsome bed...

the hitch of course, is that it's $1249 US...which according to my earlier Canadian pricing tangent, means it's likely at least $1800 + shipping + 13% tax here...so yah...no go on that one.

Edit...my good friend Andrea just let me in on a little secret...apparently RH has changed their policy so that the website prices are the same for both US and CDN customers...and they charge a ridiculously low set shipping fee of $195, which includes inside set-up...I am AMAZED by this...I take back my earlier less than gushy comment about Restoration Hardware- they get major bonus points for having such a fabulous cross boarder policy!

Despite this...I'm still moving on past that delightful bed to something a little more time warn and there is good news in that regard my friends.

A few days ago I was perusing Etsy and came across this shop....

and saw this...

love, love, love but still perhaps a little girly so I emailed the seller with my bed want list and got this photo in return...

hallefarkinglujah....that's thee bed...and to sweeten the pot even more, it's totally within budget (i.e. it's about 1/3 the price of the RH one) ..love, love, love, love, love.

I'm waiting on a shipping estimate to Buffalo- hubs can drive down and pick it up...quite sure that will save me at least $200 bones...oh and to make it even sweeter, because it's an antique, I can bypass the tax at the border...claps/high fives.

So there you have it...my little guy's hopefully new big boy bed, which he will keep his whole life because read my lips, I am not buying another one...until he goes to uni...pretty sure he won't be taking this mother huge bed with him.

I threw together a little boardski with the new bed and a few adjustments from the last one I did...

The colour story is going to be chocolate, cream, navy, turquoise and emerald green.

I'm going to add in a couple of extra cushions...my Rubie Green (PS...has RG gone out of business?  Their website is no longer working) leopard/green piped pillows have already moved to his room...I'm also hoping to put up that hand drawn wallpaper by Fine Little Day and some green solid curtain panels.

The bed is being ordered as soon as I get that shipping estimate...the rest will be done as soon as I can afford it...the kitchen has sucked me dry for a while so realistically, we're looking at early next year for the wallpaper and curtains...I don't think he'll mind:)

Have a fabo Monday everyone...oh and if don't foget to enter my inVu giveaway if you're in Canada or planning a trip here in the near future...a $100 gift card could be yours!

xo