If your boy is a sports nut you might already have decorated his room with football, basketball, or soccer accents. Those accents are probably covers on the bed or things you hang on the wall. But let’s look at the bedroom closet door. You know what would be really cute? Make the closet door look like lockers in a locker room and, instantly, the whole room has an impressive sports theme. It’s not hard to turn a closet or other door into a locker room creation that your boy will love.
It’s up to you if you take the door(s) down or leave them as they are for painting. Use painter’s tape to section each door for painting. It’s okay if the doors have raised areas – as many doors do – because you can just incorporate them into the locker room design. Choose two bright colors, like blue and yellow. Or just paint the whole door silver for a different look. Latex semigloss interior paint works well to give the finished lockers a shine like metal.
Whether you have one closet door, or two sets of two hinged doors, just divide them up evenly so that you create at least four locker doors across the bottom. Make another row on top of that one, and another on top of that one, so that you create a wall of locker doors, alternating the two colors, or painting them all the same color.
There are several things you can do to make the closet doors look more like real lockers. One is to cut a template to create vents at the top of each locker door. Draw around the template, and color in the drawing, with a black marker. Make three vents or so at the top of each locker door.
Use metal name holders to further accent the lockers. You can find the rectangular tags at office supply stores or in the scrapbook aisle at your local craft store. Slide a piece of card stock into each holder and give each one a name, or even a locker number. A child might also enjoy seeing famous ball player names on some of the tags.
If you look around at a hardware or home improvement store you’ll see small metal pieces that you can use to make a hasp for a tiny padlock. Look for a u-shaped, metal piece, with a flat plate holding it. It’s the type of hardware you see on some old sheds and out buildings. Purchase one for each locker door but you won’t need screws, or nails. Simply glue one of the hardware pieces onto each locker door.
Purchase a small padlock for each door. Hang each one and lock them. If you want, leave a key hanging in one or two of the locks. The finished locker room arrangement not only gives a cool look to the closet doors but also offers a ball-player theme for the entire room.
