your zone bedroom makeover

A little while ago I was approached to do a Your Zone makeover for Jay’s bedroom.  Purely by coincidence, 2 days prior to being asked whether I would like to participate in this bedroom makeover, we had purchased Jay a new bed and mattress from Walmart.

To start the makeover process we checked out the Your Zone Design Your Room configurator, where we could play around with mixing and matching different items from the Your Zone collection into a bedroom.  This gave Jay an idea of what he wanted to look for when it came time to shop.

As my regular readers would know, Jay is homeschooled and one of the challenges we faced last year was that he had too many distractions around him during his school days and his ‘work space’ wasn’t organized.  He could never seem to find a pencil or pen and his books were all over the place.

When we moved house over summer vacation the first thing we did was remove his television, his Wii, Playstation and X-Box.  As I said, he had too many distractions.  The reason we hadn’t moved them previously is that we had nowhere to put them.  We had one family/living room/office at our previous house that the twins used throughout the day, where our computer was set up and that hubby and I would try to chill out in once the little ones were in bed.  Now we have both a living and family room, one of which we’ve converted into a playroom for all of the kids. 

So before school started (yes he is homeschooling again this year) my goal was to ‘set him up for success’.  I wanted his workspace to be organized and clear from clutter.  I wanted him to have somewhere that he would feel comfortable spending a great deal of his day, but yet still be somewhere that he could just ‘hang out’ with friends, to read or chat on the phone.  It’s hard to focus in a room that is full of disarray and video games.

With $500 to spend (with thanks to Walmart and Rockfish Interactive) Jay and I took off to purchase everything we would need before he left on vacation.  3 Walmart stores and a little site-to-store shipping (which is free by the way) later, we had everything we needed.  Then with him ‘out of my hair’ {insert evil laugh} I set to work giving his bedroom a makeover.

A few of the items we purchased you won’t find on the Walmart site, instead it took some careful scouring of stores to find just what we needed and we were pleasantly surprised by what we found.  Each store seemed to stock yet another piece of the puzzle that we needed to complete his bedroom makeover.

So here it is:

This video will be going up on the Walmart site along with the videos of the other bloggers participating in Your Zone makeovers, but we don’t have a date as yet.

To get a better visual of the before and after, here are a few photographs.

So tell me.  Do you think he will like it?  He is going to be viewing it the same way you all are until he returns from vacation next month. 

So, how does Jay’s bedroom makeover benefit all of you, my readers? 

Well…

Wait for it …

$500 GIFT CARD GIVEAWAY

That’s right, I am honored to be able to host a giveaway for a $500 Walmart gift card for one of my readers.   

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Visit Your Zone and tell me which items you would choose to makeover a bedroom.  Don’t forget to leave me with a way to contact you because if I can’t your comment will be deleted.

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Entries are open to all residents of the United States and this giveaway ends on Wednesday September 9 and 10pm PST.

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Walmart.