I'm still hard at work on my son’s room makeover. Today’s task is building a melamine and wood slide. I couldn't find any tutorials that were exactly what I wanted so I took pieces of different ideas and started dreaming up what I wanted from scratch. Being able to get creative with planning and giving myself the challenge is one of my favorite things to do! You've probably seen a fair amount of slides people are adding to their playrooms. They are getting pretty popular but the plastic slides are SO expensive. I did a little digging and found a couple of people who had made wood and melamine slides but they didn't give a step by step tutorial. So, once I figured it out for myself, I knew I wanted to share it so you can make one, too!

Welcome back to another installment of making over my son’s bedroom. To recap, his room is on the third floor of our house. It's a huge room that will be multipurpose as a guest room, a playroom and his bedroom. The next step in my plan was to make the Murphy bed. I was super excited about this. I got the plans and the parts and was reading the instructions when I realized that I would need to pivot because my son started climbing out of his crib. Our daughter used to climb out of her crib, but once she fell out and got hurt she learned not to go it again. My son, however, is taking it to the next level. He is 2.5 years old but with the size and strength of a 5-year-old. One morning, we went to wake him up and found an empty crib. We frantically searched the house and eventually found him on the main floor (so down 2 flights of stairs) sleeping on the couch. We realized he had made it out of his crib, down the stairs, into his sisters room, out of his sisters room, down another flight of stairs and into the family room. Apparently I am raising a ninja because we didn't hear a thing! We realized that we had to do something to keep him in his bedroom for his safety and quickly so that took priority over the Murphy bed. So I went to work building him his own bed.