- Hi guys.
Today I wanted to give you a tour
of our eldest boy's room, Fraser.
He's five years old
and we've actually extended our house
to build this room to make room for the new baby.
I'm actually 39 weeks pregnant now
so we have done it all in the nick of time.
But yes, this is very much him going
from being a young boy to his big boy room
and I'm also going to show you all the organizational
and storage ideas that we have done for him.
So I really hope you like this video
and here is his room.
This is the hallway that leads to Fraser's room.
This is our bathroom and it used
to go all the way across to there.
But because we needed to make a hallway,
- This is my room.
- [Emily] Oh hello.
Do you want to do your room tour?
- Yeah.
- [Emily] Yeah. (laughs)
But yeah, because we needed a hallway to Fraser's new room,
we had to move over the bathroom
and then move it into this room a bit.
So that's made that room a bit smaller
but we now have this hallway that leads to his room.
Yeah so in this hallway,
my husband decided that it would be a good idea
to put the doorway halfway through the hallway,
which I wasn't sure about but actually is such a good idea
because it means that when the door opens into the room,
it doesn't actually take up any space in the room;
it just takes up some of the hallway.
So that was really super clever.
We've got these wall protectors for the door
because you know kids are like slamming doors
so that is now protecting the wall from the handles.
That's good.
It's very much like a gray and white theme.
The whole upstairs of the house is gray to be honest.
This is the carpet which we have in all the bedrooms.
So, so soft.
I wish you could feel it.
My favorite part of the room is how high the ceilings are.
We actually looked at whether or not we would be able
to do a loft extension,
but because of the height of our lofts, we wouldn't.
So we thought, why don't we just use all
of that area for a really really
high ceiling in Fraser's room.
Because of the high ceilings we got
to get this really lovely feature light from Ikea.
It's so nice.
It's got like rose gold, kind of like copper, inside of it.
Fraser calls it the Star Wars light.
It opens and closes.
And then we've got these two lights as well
to brighten up his wardrobe area.
They're quite warehouse looking.
My husband chose them
and they look really really funky in his
- But I like how the whole room.
- [Emily] Yeah.
And they look so cool in your big boy room.
- Yay my room.
I've got a lolli.
(Emily laughs)
- [Emily] Do you love your new room?
Loads of floor space to play,
haven't you?
And this whole wall of the room
is taken up by these wardrobes.
Storage is so important in our house
'cause it's not huge.
So we had these custom made so that they would fit.
They look like wood but they are in fact MDF
and someone built them for us and then we just painted them.
The storage goes right to the ceiling as well
so these ones here they go with our pitched roof
so we can put like, I've got some duvets
and some Christmas things all at the top.
Then we have dedicated one of the cupboards to toys
because Fraser has friend around now
and you like to play in your room cause you're old enough
so we've put all these books here
and then lots of soft toys and Minecraft toys
and things like that.
So we can just hide it all away.
It's really easy to clean up.
And then up above that, cause there's so much storage,
we've put some winter coats.
So in the middle cupboard,
we have some drawers for him.
There is another hanging rail there
but because there is so much storage
we haven't needed to use that yet
and I was thinking,
if anyone does come over,
like my mom,
she could hang her things there
because she will probably be staying in this room.
I have a frame of baby Fraser pictures
I really need to update cause look how small he was there!
These drawers are from Argos.
- Look inside.
- [Emily] You want to look inside?
Okay.
So we've been very organized, haven't we?
Done the Marie Kondo vertical way of folding
which I'm obsessed with now.
And we've labeled, haven't we,
shorts,
and then we have trousers.
Yeah, so the next drawer down, we've been very organized.
I bought these baskets from Powman.
You may have seen them in my other organizational videos.
But we have pants,
everyday socks,
school socks,
and accessories.
So Fraser can now dress himself, can't you?
And you go in and get all of your own things now, don't you?
We have all of our pajamas lined up.
Space for shoes at the bottom.
You could probably fit like eight pairs of shoes
if you put them back further but so far we just have
- [Fraser] Ten.
- [Emily] Your football boots.
Yeah we probably could fit ten.
And what's in this cupboard?
- All my morning clothes.
- [Emily] And then this is the bulk of all of your clothes,
isn't it?
So we have all of his everyday clothes
to the left.
To the left we have all of his t-shirts and shirts
and I've put them down low because he likes
to choose what he wants to wear.
And then to the right we have all of his school uniform
all labeled and ready to go because I'm heavily pregnant
so I wanted to make sure that was all set to go.
Up here is mostly
jumpers
and fancy dress.
So all of your fancy dress and Halloween.
We have so many costumes, don't we?
So they're all up there
and then there are two boxes at the bottom.
One for like schoolbag and accessories
and one for fancy dress hats and gloves.
You know like all the extras that come with
- [Fraser] And boots.
- [Emily] Yeah, and boots.
And all the extras that come with fancy dress.
So I got those boxes from Ikea
and they match the room really well.
So to this side of the room,
we decided to tile the back wall.
A few people on my videos have thought it was a wallpaper
but my husband actually tiled with a wood tile
all of this wall.
And it's got really cool effect 'cause it's got
it looks like there's nails on it.
So that is completely tiled
so really easy to clean if anything was to get onto it.
This is the bedspread that Fraser wanted.
It is Minecraft.
Apparently it's someone called Creeper.
And we decided to get it in blue
'cause that's your favorite color, isn't it?
- [Fraser] Mmhmm.
- [Emily] And then
- I'm in the blue team in school.
- And you're in the blue team at school.
The bed is from Next.
It's faux leather and it's gray.
There's also storage underneath it
so for more bits, we can put some bits into there.
We decided to get a king sized bed
because obviously we're having three children now
so we don't have a guest room.
And my mom does come over and visit
so we thought she could either sleep in here with Fraser
or the boys could bunk in together
and then she could have Caleb's room, et cetera.
This bedside table is our old bedside table.
It's an Ikea one.
It used to be white and we just painted it gray.
I found these Star Wars prints on Etsy.
I will link the shop down below.
And then I just put them into some Ikea frames.
The paint color on the walls is Laura Ashley Dove Grey
but because that paint is quite expensive,
my husband actually took a swatch of that paint
to Dulux and copied it.
Yeah so for Fraser's room, we got two sets of blinds.
We got these day and night blinds, which are really cool
because they kind of have slats.
And then when you pull it down like that
they go darker
or they go lighter like that.
So it's quite private but you can
have some light going through.
These day and night blinds would not
have made the room dark enough completely
so we also got some blackout blinds that are electric.
We got these in all of the rooms
'cause I really didn't want any cords
and we just thought, why not be a bit modern,
so it comes with this remote
and all you have to do is press it
and then the blinds come down.
For the VELUX blinds as well we have a remote
so that we can close the blinds on it
and we can also open the windows
which makes it really airy in here, which is great.
The best thing about the VELUX windows is
if you leave them open and go out for the day
and it starts to rain,
as soon as rain hits the VELUX windows,
they just close
so you don't have to worry about rain coming into the room.
I think that is everything that I wanted
to show you in his room.
Ask me any questions you have down below
and I think we still have some personalizing to do
like maybe add some photos of his friends
and some more toys
and things like that
but we will get there, and yeah, I hope you liked it.
And thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon.
Bye.
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