Boy’s Baseball Theme Room

by Domestik Goddess on March 28, 2007

My pal Janet and I put our heads together over the weekend to come up with some affordable ideas for a baseball theme room for Josh, who’s turning 12 and wanted a bedroom to celebrate his favourite sport.

baseball glove and ball beanbag chair and ottoman setIt’s hard to get more baseball crazy than a glove-and-ball chair and ottoman set.

The baseball-glove bean bag chair is made from a durable nylon fabric, while the ottoman is made from vinyl to simulate the look and feel of an over-sized baseball. Both are stuffed with those polystyrene beads that are so much more comfortable than those original beanbag chairs that Janet and I grew up with!

It’s not a large bedroom (and Janet’s budget isn’t very large either) so we decided to keep the perfectly serviceable textured taupe carpet, drapes, and bedding — with the addition of a $20 bedside mat that had the logo of Josh’s favourite team on it (found in the home decor section of our local DIY store), and a few inexpensive throw pillows in the team colours (picked up on sale at Wal-Mart).baseball shelf

Inspired by a wall shelf with a decorative baseball bracket, we put together something similar using Josh’s existing bookshelf, a glue gun, and a few spare baseballs.

Finally, Janet cut an X-shape in two baseballs and fitted one over each end of the plain old department-store curtain rod, for a great finishing detail!

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