Jack's latest painting/creation

We recently had to scrub the house from top to bottom and do some rearranging due to Max's new allergies and medical issues. In this process, Jack got to design and paint his own room. We have been in our house for 9 1/2 years and his room has never been painted. Just many, many posters have been put up and taken down over the years!!! He was very excited and did a fabulous job.

These are the old windows we have not replaced yet. I told him he could paint the molding....I don't care about these old crappy windows!!

The dots you see all over the walls are indeed the many tack and nail holes from over the years!! It took one whole afternoon to spackle and sand and then clean up that mess!! 

This is the new window that  cost a fortune!! I threatened his life if he got a speck of paint on this window!!

This is the whiteboard, cork board and magnet board (behind the door) from when this was the school room (the first year I took them out of school to home school).

This is the grey wall (old windows) with blue molding....black curtains (because I have not been able to buy grey or U of M type curtains yet. The bed has grey and blue striped sheets and a grey cover. His tiger from infancy and a robber/ man that my mother-in-law made at the request from Jack. He also painted the blue shelves. 

ahhhh, the lighting is better on this picture! You can see his creativity with the grey/blue wall!! Notice his new Memphis Tiger desk lamp!! The built in book shelves on the left have his comic book collection that he inherited from Jeff!! He painted the inside of the shelves grey and the outside blue!!

Here is the opposite wall which is also grey/blue. It has another blue shelf. Again, my new window....and not a drop of paint on it!!! His fish tank on an antique desk.

Thank goodness he wanted to keep the whiteboard, cork board and magnet board (still behind the door). I was not looking forward to filling in all THOSE holes!! He wants to use the whiteboard for "air soft" planning and such..... He painted the cork board blue and we bought a UM magnet for the magnet board. He has already hung stuff.....as you can see!!

Jack did 85% of the painting and only because I did the really high molding and the sanding....to keep it out of his lungs!! He designed the whole thing! 100%

I would like to bring your attention to a couple of things.....Jack is working hard to do advanced math and science courses because he wants to go to Vanderbilt. He is interested in Robotic Engineering. He now has a U of M bedroom. He has Florida Gator braces on his teeth. Those are Germantown sports balls on the shelves behind him..............hmmmmmm