| With my boys growing love of race cars and little | | | | scene. Because it was military housing, I couldn't paint |
| Hot Wheels cars, I worked on this race car bedroom | | | | the walls there. |
| theme decorating idea. This turned out to be one of | | | | The boys' royal blue corduroy bedspreads had faded |
| my inexpensive decorating ideas that came together | | | | over time but I threw on a few pillows I made with |
| in only a few hours. | | | | my bedroom boy decorating idea in mind. I made |
| I found several bright red race car posters to hang | | | | square, round and oval shapes with red, orange and |
| up. Also I made a mobile of toy cars and displayed | | | | yellow felt cutouts of race car shapes and threw |
| some toy cars on shelves and dressers. They had | | | | them on the beds. |
| already put together several model cars that were | | | | They had gas stations and parking garages made |
| painted with bright colors and we displayed them too. | | | | just for Matchbox toy cars. We placed them around |
| Now my race car bedroom boy decorating idea was | | | | the room so they had a little town to play cars right |
| starting to look like a fun room. | | | | on their bedroom floor. Using the orange Matchbox |
| I remember back then I was using free samples of | | | | tracks for roads, we made their race car bedroom |
| carpet remnants to make area rugs. I had simply | | | | decorating idea come to life. |
| taped the undersides together to make patchwork | | | | One problem was that my boys kept taking the cars |
| area rugs in other rooms. For the race car bedroom | | | | displayed down to play with them. We also tripped |
| decorating idea, I cut some carpet remnants and | | | | over orange tracks for months, but I think my boys |
| used them to create a rug that became a blue lake | | | | enjoyed that race car bedroom the most. |
| and green grassy areas for their floor. | | | | I wish we had kept my children's Hot Wheels cars |
| Some of the orange Matchbox tracks were | | | | and Matchbox playsets. I have only one, the Hot |
| damaged, naturally. With my race car bedroom boy | | | | Wheels RacingHart Hot TunerZ Collectible. If I had |
| decorating idea, I cut and stapled a few pieces of | | | | preserved and saved my boys collection, today they |
| orange tracks together and made a collage on one | | | | might be worth a small fortune! |
| wall with a background poster of an Indy Car Racing | | | | |