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Do not open with sharp instruments. Okay in different colors and actually stain your ground and it looks so good brand new again. Hey y'all welcome back to a new video. Today is going to be a bedroom refresh or makeover. Honestly this is more of a makeover. I feel like it looks completely different than it did and this has been way overdue. I have changed his face quite a bit over the years just added little things. I've painted. I've rearranged but I haven't only done like a full themed makeover in a while so that's what we're gonna do today but I am gonna start by taking down this pegboard. We use this for like a nerf wall display. It was really cool but since he's not really into that as much as he once was it's time to take this down. This also allows us to have more room to work with in the bedroom with this being here it does limit where I can move the furniture to so this is gonna go. I actually ended up putting this in the closet. I had the idea because my son doesn't use his closet for his clothes. He likes them in his drawers which I am fine with so we utilize his closet as a way to put all his toys in there so that way we could free up all the space in his bedroom which was really important because this room is tiny. All right I got the room cleared out on this one side. I am going to start staining the grout. I've used this product years and years ago in our main living space. Basically if you have grout that was never sealed properly and then got super stained up or just like you've tried scrubbing it clean it's just not quite getting where you want it to go you can buy this product in different colors and actually stain your grout and it looks so good brand new again. I'm actually going to be using the color charcoal because there are some stains in this room particular that I'm not even sure where they came from but they are dark and I'm going to use this to make sure I cover all of the stains really well so that way we have like a pretty clean looking floor because that is one of the issues that I'm running into no matter how much I mop or vacuum or whatever the floor is always like dirty in this house and I think it's just because some of the grout lines are getting a little messed up. I actually need to go through the house and redo some of the areas because just over time scrubbing them clean it has lifted some of the stain as well but I love this product. I accidentally ripped the label off of mine but I will have it linked down below so yeah let's get started. I'm gonna get y'all up close and personal with our floors. Now keep in mind that these already have been vacuumed and mopped and they still look dirty. I can go through even with the steamer because I've tried it and try to steam the grout lines and it just will not budge. I think these are just really really deep stains that are going to be impossible to get out so as you can see we have like a dark mark here. I don't even know what this is from just like where how does it get so dirty? I don't understand but it's okay we're gonna fix it up in just a couple minutes. So all you're gonna need is your grout stain. I will have the label and picture of what this looks like with the actual label on the screen. Like I said earlier I'm using the color charcoal. I like to wear gloves just because I don't want to get it all over my hands and then I'm also going to use baby wipes to wipe it clean and you're going to need like a small sponge or a paintbrush. I did try to use just the tip of the bottle to do this and I mean you totally can but I do feel like you waste a lot more product than using a paintbrush so definitely recommend sponge, paintbrush, gloves, and baby wipes or you can even use paper towels. I actually ran out of wipes at one point and went and just wet a few paper towels and that worked great too. So basically all you do is just paint the grout lines. You're not gonna go too far though so this is the worst thing you can do is let it dry because then it's really really hard to get it off the tile like you have to scrub. So I just work in like little sections like a couple feet, paint it on, by the time I get to the other spot the other area is ready to be wiped clean. Now like I said if you let it sit for too long you're gonna struggle to wipe it clean and you're gonna be completely sore the next day so small sections, paint it on, and wipe it off. I also wanted to mention I'm using this on grout that has never been sealed so if you have grout that's been sealed and it's stained up or maybe the sealant has kind of worn off in some areas I don't know if this product is going to be right for you. I would definitely recommend before you buy a lot or like start the project test it in a small hidden area just to make sure. So just a fair warning I think this is more so meant for grout like ours that has never been sealed and I think that's why it works so well. But this one tube lasts forever so in my kitchen, dining room, living room, two bathrooms, and my bedroom I use the same bottle. That's how far this product goes so I ended up having to buy a new one for my son's room and I still have I barely used half of it to do his bedroom which I feel like I was over killing it a little bit. The first time I ever did this I was going in like very very carefully not getting it all over the tile. At this point I'm kind of like in a hurry so I'm you know painting this on kind of sloppy. I am wasting more product but sometimes you just got to get it done. So after about I would say it took about 40 minutes to do his room and this is what it looks like. Very nice and clean again. I love it. Okay we're gonna start with the rug. Do not open with sharp instruments. Okay it's really really nice. Why is it so light on camera or I'm sorry on pictures? It looked like darker. It'll work. I'll make it work. As far as his bedroom goes setting it up I did try a couple different areas and I did decide to include that in here. I tried this bed over here but the problem is where the door opens up it's just too tight of a walkway. Then I tried the bed on this wall and it's too long because the bedroom is not very wide so the footboard was basically touching the closet door and then I eventually decided to turn it and put it on the wall that's over there where that black sand is right now and this is just personally the best layout that I think we can get in this space and it makes it feel more like a bedroom and welcoming instead of it being so tight and closed off. You have to get down. Can you move? Can you move? I'm trying to move this. Excuse me. Excuse him. Excuse him. No don't do that. Why do you do stuff like that? It's not for him. No. No. That's not for him. Come on. Come out. Thank you. I finally got the bed where I feel like it looks the best and that's where it's going to stay from here on out but I did have a nightstand I ordered so I wanted to put that together really quick. It was really cheap on sale and it just kind of matched the same style and size as the other one. It doesn't actually match perfectly but that's okay. I feel like by the time the room comes together I think it's all right to have like a little bit of mixed match furniture. In my opinion it just kind of feels a little bit more collected over time and not so like staged so it worked but um when I put it together I realized I accidentally put it together the wrong way and I ended up just like taking a marker and coloring the top piece because I did in fact put it upside down so there was like this light piece that was showing. I was not about to take it apart and redo it so I just sharpied it. Oh boy. What? I said oh boy. What? Oh. I didn't need daddy. I don't think so. What do you mean you need daddy? Your mom was capable of doing this. Dang it. What happened? I need different screws. All righty dad. I need some muscles. I thought you said you don't need dad. Remember that? I did remember that. I'll fix it. Where's the other bolt? And then I need that little tool that I was using earlier. You like that? Yeah. Looks good. All right so the tv was finally mounted. That was a pain in the butt. I'm not gonna lie but I did it by myself and then I ran to Walmart and I found these floating shelves so I'm gonna put one right here. I just felt like I needed something like just having a picture here wasn't enough and we have like these little antique cars so I thought it would be really cool to like display one on the shelf and then I will tell you I did get a lot of stuff from Hobby Lobby. Caden actually went with us and we picked a theme out so originally he wanted like a sports theme but then when we got to Hobby Lobby he saw the car stuff and he's like oh I love this so he picked out all kinds of things and we ended up only spending a hundred dollars there so it was a really great deal. Everything was on clearance so I love that. How cool is that? He's gonna love it. It did take me a little bit to figure out a good layout because the pictures that we ended up picking up were all kind of large and they weren't all the same size so I just used tacks and kind of held the pictures up to get an idea of what it was going to look like. I would you know tack it all up, stand back, take a peek. Honestly that's how I do things. I don't mind putting holes in the wall, doesn't bother me because I can patch them and paint over it but I actually learned from Stephanie from The Little Bliss Nest to use tacks as just a way to get a gallery wall started and then you can go back in and replace the tacks with actual nails so I love that. I didn't realize that tacks would hold a lot of pictures up but you'll be surprised they actually hold pretty well. Obviously I wouldn't hang anything up that's super heavy or like full of glass but in this case these are all like kind of like poster board type of pictures. I'm not poster board, they're canvases but they're lightweight, they're not super heavy and then there were there were some screws already in place so I just utilized those if I could or there was holes that were already there that I would just put a screw through so and anything that I need to patch I can go back through later and do that and I usually spend like a full day doing touch-ups around the house which I did do in an upcoming video so I don't know like once a month I'll go through the house and I'll fill all the holes in touch-up paint or it's not usually once a month who am I kidding it's like once a year but it gets done eventually. Now I am going to put together this lamp, you won't believe there's a lamp inside this box but they're actually super cute and I love the one that I had so much I just went ahead and ordered a new one and this lamp I love it because it actually has a plug-in on the side of it and a USB port so it's very convenient. I do have a cute story to tell you so a couple nights ago I was working out and now keep in mind I had went to Walmart and I bought some new things for his room like a new bedding set and everything and I was going to show you guys the bedding set and opening it and putting it on the bed and just like a full decorate with me but that night Caden found it in his room and he got really excited and as a surprise to me he opened up his bedding and made his bed so freaking good like it looks so good and he was like so excited and I come in and he's like mom look at I made my bed and stuff but my daughter went in there and told him hey I think mom wanted to film that for the video and I told her I was like it's fine let him do it it's his room if he wants to make his bed he's fine but then I came in there he showed me he's like mom did you want to film it he's like I'm sorry I'm like it's fine like you did such a great job I don't have to film me opening the package I wanted to wash the bedding first but that's okay and he was just so proud of his room so I love that makes me really excited that he's getting excited about his face too and then as you can see it's starting to come together pretty cute the last thing I needed was my curtains they just hadn't came in yet but I did order some lighting to add just to kind of you know make it look a little bit fancier if you will and I really love how this light looks above the art right here because some of these pictures actually have like a glossy finish and it almost makes it look so realistic I love this this light is actually from Amazon I can link it if you're interested and it's rechargeable and it has a remote different lighting modes too so I thought that was pretty cool and then here I'm actually creating a rock display wall and I'll talk a little bit more about that later on now this was after the first night kind of getting everything set up his curtains don't come in his room's not completely finished but I just thought it was so cool we walked in here and everything was like lit up so neat so I wanted to share that with you guys really quick but let's go ahead and get into the curtains now I ordered a couple different ones and every set that came in that was more on the like super affordable side just did not complete the room like I don't know what it was just the solid curtains just were not working in here so I was like you know what let me order the ones that have the black lines the plaid look and just see and I was a little concerned because I had already purchased the plaid looking blanket and was like oh is this gonna be too much but it actually ended up being perfect so I did end up having to hang that curtains a little higher originally the first curtains I got were just long enough to go above the window these are the 90 inch length so I went just above the window as high as I could that way the curtains sit just above the floors right at the baseboards and I think that is what really made it look a lot nicer too but I did want to show you something that I learned I actually just figured this out today or the day that I was putting the curtains up because I didn't like the way that they were sitting on the rod so I ended up folding one of the pieces over and it ended up looking really good so I'll show you how I did that okay I'm going to show you something that I learned and I don't know if I came up with this or like if other people have done this I don't know I just was like playing around with the curtains because I hate I'll show you what I'm talking about when I hang up curtains that have this style this is what happens so hold on when you go through like this I'll show you the difference okay so whenever you get these like hung up see how it kind of like it doesn't loop inward it kind of just hangs funny and it does the same thing on this side but watch this if you take this last pocket out so leave it like that what you're going to do is you're going to go through it backwards so take this side go like this through the rod okay so it's going to kind of look like that and then you're going to kind of just poke it through so I'll show you guys again so here's this instead of going through this way you're going to turn it inward then go through the little pocket and then just kind of tuck it through the outside and then when it hangs it hangs with like a curve at the end you won't see this at the top you can't see it at all but it just curves it so that way it doesn't look like a weird line and I'll do the same thing on the opposite side so instead of going through like this you take it fold it in so fold it and then run your rod through it like that instead it looks so much better when it's hanging and that's just personal preference I liked it better curved inward than it having like that straight line sticking out because it just doesn't flow like as pretty doesn't lay as pretty in my opinion like I said don't don't do it if you don't like it um you hang curtains however you want girl so anyway I got the other rod put up and I'm gonna go ahead and get these curtains in place and just kind of touch up everything and then I'll share with you guys how the room turned out now just a quick recap on what it looked like before so here's a couple video clips and then I'll show you what it looks like now all right y'all my son's room is done it turned out so cute for like such a cheap budget and also like the time frame I feel like it looks so darn good it looks like it's been like this for a long time like very collected which was the goal I wanted this space to feel like homey and warm welcoming collected not overly styled and that's kind of how I feel like it looks that was the goal because obviously I was kind of throwing this together really quick I didn't want it to look like a cold empty room he has had a cold empty room for a while it needed warmth and he needed coziness but I think it was just kind of one of those things where he was in between his little styles he liked the nerf wall but then he also liked cars and he liked this theme which I think was great I just didn't have enough of anything so we hit up Hobby Lobby and I ended up finding all kinds of good stuff on sale I got all the artwork that you see in here so the route 66 the no speed limit sign all four of these these two and this one all for a hundred dollars at Hobby Lobby and then I of course grabbed him some new bedding got his bed off facebook marketplace new curtains a nightstand that was supposed to be matching clearly does not match but it's okay and then just kind of you know decorated a little bit made it look all cute and stuff and I think it turned out so good I'm really proud of the space I know he loves it too which is really important obviously but one of my favorite parts is over here because if you didn't know my son loves rocks he's been collecting them forever and I've always loved rocks too which is so funny because he kind of got that from me I actually literally have a box of rocks saved in my keepsake bin from when I was a kid so yeah he's collected all these over the years got them from friends or just found them just really really cool so he's very very proud of his little rock collection and I put them on these like a little acrylic shelves and thought you know what this would be perfect add a little motion light so that way when he walks over here it turns on and it lights them up especially when it's dark in here like check it out isn't this so cool like his whole room just kind of lights up and just looks so fun so very very neat um that was something I really wanted to tackle I actually was gonna put that over here but this wall was just a little too big so that's how the art wall came into play and I think with this light up here it makes all the art look super high end like I don't know this like this art right here looks like it's shining off the wall like it looks super realistic so really like that but um yeah that's it that's his room curtains are from amazon I'll link what I can for you guys if you have any questions feel free to let me know and um definitely let me know what you think of his room I think it turned out so cute but a couple things I did want to mention that I want to do is number one we're going to be painting I do want to lighten up this wall I loved it at first but I think went back when it was the nerf wall it was like super cool but now without any lights on it it's just a little dark and feels kind of cave-like so we're going to paint that wall to match the rest of his room actually I'm going to be painting all the walls a different color so stay tuned for that but I want to get him a longer dresser so we're going to get something shorter longer he doesn't this dresser is a pain in the butt to be honest with you um in order to open one drawer like you can't open two drawers at a time and I like that for safety but it has to be completely shut before it unlocks this one and it's just kind of hard to pull open so I don't know that's like a whole thing in itself but I want to find a dresser that's more like mid-century modern looking and brown not black I definitely want to get away from all the black furniture because it always looks dirty it's always full of dust not that you don't have to dust these but it's just not as noticeable when you have brown furniture or white furniture if you ever have black stuff you know what I'm talking about so yeah I want to do that and then these two things will go once I do that because this just holds some storage in here for right now because we don't have anywhere else to put it and if he had a longer dresser with more drawers I think we'd be able to eliminate those two and that would make a huge difference so all right that's gonna be it for today's video I will be on the hunt for a new dresser and a couple things that we need to get for this space to kind of like finish it off but I feel like it looks totally different and a lot more cozy and warm than it did let me know in the comments below what you think I would love to hear your thoughts and if you're interested in anything that I shared I'll have whatever I can link down below and yeah thanks again for being here I'll see you all in my next video bye y'all