Friday, March 11, 2016
















"CUSTOM CHILDREN'S BEDROOM", NORTH MIAMI BEACH

I absolutely LOVE creating unique concepts for Clients, but there's no greater joy than to put my brain, blood, sweat and fears into something for my loved ones.  My 9-yr-old was in need of a timeless upgrade to his bedroom.  We wanted to demo his entire closet, put a custom full-sized bed inside it, and custom a large cabinet-styled dresser across the opposite side of his room.  Time was of essence, due to him having to relocate to his brother's room for the time being.  The initial phase was to customize this massive cabinet-dresser with reclaimed wood panels from old wood-paneled paintings in my archives.  When you open each drawer, you can actually see pieces of an old painting!  Each drawer was custom fit and installed with soft-close sliders.  I then customized the tabletop, adding my all-time fav superhero Wolverine!  I kind of did a throwback of the "styles" of Illustrated Wolverines from my old comics.  Once the drawers and table top was completed, I utilized recycled palette wood for the faces of each drawer.  Now I had a place to put all the closet items.  The second step was to demo the entire closet, recycle any studs and discard all the debris.  I closed in one of his small windows, did all the drywall and finish work and duplicated the existing knockdown texture.  Once dried, within 3 hours a airbrushed a surreal-abstract universe-type of design across the 2 corner walls.  Once this was finished, baseboards were put back and now the custom wood bed frame was built, stained and lacquered.  Next I customized a reclaimed palette wood headboard, stained a few blue hues, lacquered and installed.  Final touches were a small reclaimed palette step to the right of the bed, his own little niche and shelving for his personal things above that, and Bam! we now have a timeless room for a youngster that could still appreciate when he's still a teenager!

....now it's time to customize his brother's room.....