- hi guys, welcome back to my channel. today, i'm gonna give you a tour of my son caleb's room. it is now finished and i posted a picture on instagram of it, andso many of you said, "can we see a room tour?" so, i'm gonna show you around today and i'm also gonna give you five tips on how to feng shui a room for a child.
okay, so i'm just gonna walk you through like you're around my house. well, we recently did up caleb's room because we had some building work done and we needed to move the window, and we just wanted to, like, revamp it. it was a quite tired and old room, and it was very much a baby room. it had little baby-bluestars on the walls,
old carpet, and it justneeded to be redone. while we were planning out caleb's room, i actually looked intofeng shui for children because i envisioned this room being his big-boy roomfor quite a few years, so i really wanted to get it right. one of the first tips i learned for a good feng shui in a child's room is to have calming colors on the walls.
they said not to have bright white or cooling colors, but to have, like, a little bit warmer, so like, off-whites or skin tone. not too many crazy, bold patterns, and not too many primary colors. obviously, pops of color is fine, but they almost don't want to make the room for a child too stimulating.
so, we chose this lauraashley dove grey paint color. we have used it loads throughout our house and we just really like it. it is quite calming color. so, next up in his room, i wanted to show you his bed. we actually got this from ikea. it is a small bed, it's not a full single, and we originally got it in white,
but we painted it gray tokind of match the decor, and then we also paintedthis old toy box as well. this toy box was actually mine as a child and i had it at uni with me, and i've literally takenit with me everywhere. it was, like, a pine color before, but we sanded it down and we painted it, and then we got theseletters from posh graffiti. i'll link them down below,they do really cool letters,
and i just literally used a hot glue gun to stick them on. and inside, he keeps loads and loads of fancy dress and toys. his bedding was actuallya birthday present, so i don't know where it's from and i know there's been so many questions about where it's from 'cause it has all the different superheroes on it.
and i really love thispillow we got from loaf. it's a mountain and itried to make his room kind of superhero-theme, but also, like, an adventurer theme as well. yeah, so i got that mountain pillow, and then i also got thismoose who's called norman, and he was also from loaf and they were in the same range, you can probably tell.
they had some really cool stuff in the kid's range on that website, i'll link it down below. and then, he's just got a fewmore soft toys on his bed. tip two for feng shui in a child's room is to make sure you place the bed with the head against a wall, and also in full view of the door so that they can feel safe and secure,
that when they're laying in bed, they can see the door in full sight. under the bed, we have thesereally handy storage boxes that i just picked up in ikea. they were really cheapand i house a lot of, like, winter clothes and old toys, and things like that. this wall over here in caleb's room is his superhero wall,
and this is what i posted on instagram and what everyone went crazy for. basically, caleb has alwaysloved fancy dress and costumes, so i thought, "why notmake a feature out of it?" so, i got this print madeon not on the high street, and it says, "i'm a superheroand my name is caleb," and then below that, we put six hooks. these little plastichooks are just from ikea. they were so, so cheap, i think they were,
like, a pound, and they'rereally bright colors. so, i put all six of those up, and then they each have, like, a superhero costume. yeah, and then over here, we put a mirror for him so that he can look at himself once he's got the costumes on, and it's actually good to have a mirror in a child's room.
apparently, it helps to build self-esteem. there are some conflicting views on if you should havea mirror hidden or not because it could provide, like, too much activity or stimulation when they're trying to go to sleep, but actually, caleb'sa really good sleeper, so i didn't think it would be a problem and he loves looking athimself in the mirror.
so, we put that there. it's, like, a small full-length mirror, but obviously, he can seehis whole self in that. and then, over here, we put, like, a little pouf here so that he can sit down while he's getting the clothes on, or also, he could sit there, he sometimes puts his socks on there, or he could read a book
because i did originally putthese shelves up for books. these are really, really great, they're just from ikea. again, super cheap, really easy to hang. so, one day, there may be books on there, but for now, we have his superhero masks so that he has access to all of this. he absolutely loves this section of his room and i wishi had filmed his face
when he saw it. we set it all up, and thenwe surprised him with it and he was literallyover the moon with it, so he uses it all of the time. just above his bed on this wall, we have a bit of a gallery wall for him. i think i probably willadd to it in the future, but for now, we have this print,which says, "boys rule,"
on it because, let's face it, in this house, boys rule. i have three sons and a husband. so, i got this on instagram,i'll link it down below, and then i also hadthis print custom-made. it says, "stay wild, my child," and i painted the frame this ochre color to match this pouffe, and also his carpet. caleb has been described in the past
to me as, like, a spirited child and he's really, really, like, crazy. he has no fear, he's a daredevil, and i love that abouthim, but i can imagine, as he grows up, people may try to dull that sparkle of him, soi wanted to put this up as a constant reminderto stay wild, my child, and never to change. also, in caleb's gallery wall,
we have four recent family photos here. this one is of the whole family that we had taken and ilove that photo so much, and then this photo here of caleb and his big brother frasier is my favorite-ever photo of them because i think you can really, really see the love between them. they're kind of doing oneof their play-fight cuddles
in this picture, but ijust think you can really, really see the bond thatthey have in this photo. and then, over here, thesetwo are actually older photos. this is frasier and calebwhen they were little, but caleb loves baby photos of himself, and then this one as well is them having a nap together, and you can see frasier's always been very protective of caleb.
yeah, so that is tip number four of good feng shui in your child's room, put up pictures of their loved ones and their family members, and they will feel loved and supported. it terms of the carpet,we have this really soft, gray carpet, which is really, really cozy, and then we've got a little rug that was ochre that we thought would match
some of the decor, and this was from mamas & papas. this is caleb's bedside lamp. it is, like, a little house, and i saw it and i just loved it. i saw it in john lewis,but i actually found it for half price in dunelm. for caleb's blinds, we chosethe day-and-night blinds, so basically, they can eitherlook like slats like this,
with lights coming through, or you can just pull them like this, and then the room gets quite a bit darker. yeah, i love these day-and-night blinds, but they're not 100% blackout, so we also got blinds that are blackout behind the day-and-night blinds. so, we got electronic ones because i didn't reallywant any cords in his room,
so you get a clicker like this and you just have to press it, and it goes up or down. then, across from caleb's bed, we have his huge cupboardswith sliding doors. we actually had thisbuilt because they used to come out, but takeup a lot of the room, and inside, we hide all of his clothes. we have one big railing going across,
and then we also havethis chest of drawers, which we have more clothes in. these three boxes ontop house his sunhats, his swimwear, and his creams, and then this, i wanted to work into the gallery wall at some stage, but at the moment, it just wasn't working. and then, here is his coin pot here, caleb's wishes & dreams.
and i have mary kondoed all of his clothes so that they basically are folded upwards so you can see everything that you have. so, these are his t-shirts, these are his sweatpants, and then i hang all of his jeans, and then these are all of his pajamas. yeah, i really recommend this way of folding for children's clothes
and i will put a linkto the mary kondo way of folding in the description. then, on the other side of the wardrobe, we have more hanging space, and then all of his booksare hidden here as well. just got a little bookcase. so, all the big ones are up here, and then the small ones are down there, and then, yeah, some noisy ones here,
and then a few more toysbehind in those baskets. then, over here in thissection of the room, we have an airing cupboard, which is wear i storetowels and things like that, but then behind the door on this wall, there was this, like, dead space, so i've put up a little, like, steel notice board because i thought it would be nice
for him to hang up hisartwork that he makes. caleb is really creative and he's always so proud of the artwork and things that he makes and brings home, so i thought rather than having it downstairs for just,like, a week or two, we could hang it and display it in his bedroom becausethat is the last tip for feng shui in you child's room,
is to find a place where youcould hang their achievements. so, i think as he gets older, there will be, like, headteacher's awards and certificates forgymnastics or trampolining, and things like that, but for now, i've literally just put up a little bit of his artwork. i have this postcard thatsays, "good vibes only," and then another pictureof him and his brother,
but i just think it's a really nice way to use that dead space andto make him feel proud. alright, and then the last thing i wanted to show you was his really funky light. we call it the star wars light because it can eitherbe like this, closed, or you can pull a string and it opens, and itlooks really, really cool, and it's only from ikea.
alright, so that is it for this video. i really hope you like this room tour. let me know in the comments below what your favorite part was and i will make surethat i can link anything that's still available inthe description bar below. and if you're new, i wouldlove for you to subscribe. i post three videos a week and i would love for you to stick around.
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