Super Hero City Kid Room

We decided to spruce up our son's room with a superhero twist. The goal was to make a display type space where he could play, but also give some of his toys a home when not in use. After pondering on the many things we could do, we decided to make his wall into a super hero sky line.

To do this, we needed a few things:

• Scrap wood for shelves
• Saw, drill, screws to build simple shelves.
• paint - We choose to go dark with black paint
• paint supplies - brush, opener, drop cloth
• Projector to put image onto the wall (our if you're crafty, do it by hand.
• image to project onto the wall

I hooked an iPad to our projector and projected an image from Google onto the wall. I just searched for Gotham City skyline.

I used blue painters tape and even some regular masking tape to outline the projected image.

I then began painting the lower half of the wall with black paint. After the paint dried, I removed the tape and moved down to continue the city further down the wall.

I then took some scrap wood and cut it to desired length. Most of mine were around 6 inches. For each shelf, I made a flat "top" and screwed these down to a "base", just making an "L" shape, when viewed from the side. I just screwed the top into the base with two dry wall screws.

I then took these shelves and screwed them into the wall with a single screw into a stud. These won't hold much weight at all. A stud finder can help locate the studs much easier.

I painted the shelves to match the city, so they were barely visible.

After the paint dried, we placed heroes and villains around the room. They are now ready to spring into action!