REAL LIFE, CALIFORNIA: Boodalee’s bedroom

Silver birch wallpaper, and storage from dwr.comFOUR-YEAR-OLD BOODALEE IS, says his mum, Jeanice Skvaril, owner of the mod graphic bedding company Boodalee, a naturalist at heart. In his newly decorated room in Jeanice’s 1950s California Ranch home, Jeanice has indulged Boodalee’s love of all things natural right down to the view of the camper van birdbox right outside his bedroom window that houses a family of finches.

Boodalee chose the digital print wallpaper himself, pictured left and sourced from Urban Outfitters US store (click to enlarge the picture), so that his room resembled “a jungle” says Jeanice, and the WeeGallery decal graphics indulge his love of “animals and insects.” Jeanice has added her own-range Trees cotton bedding on the bottom of the IKEA bunk. Initially Boodalee decided to sleep on top of the bunk, but he’s now decided to be down low “where Mom and Dad can snuggle him more easily.” And so the top has become a bit of a cool, jungly reading area plumped with Jeanice’s Boodalee-range cushions.

Up here, Boodalee can survey his favourite drawings and pictures on the ceiling, all his animal decals, and spend time poring over his favourite superhero books “although he’s not yet five and can’t even read!” says Jeanice. Read the rest of this article

Posted 2 July 2009 in Real Life Interiors

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