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January 22, 2015

Indoor climbing wall for an outdoors-themed bedroom

Kids bedroom with climbing wall | Growing SpacesUp until now the twins have shared a bedroom. They’ve been more than happy with this arrangement, but now they’ve started school (in separate classes) and we’ve been encouraging their independence more we decided that the time felt right to give them their own rooms. Ez was thrilled with the idea, but Fonz wasn’t so keen, so I knew we’d have to come up with something special to win him over.

I had gymnastic rings in my bedroom as a child and my brother had a trapeze, and I wanted to come up with something similar. I’ve had a thing for plywood for a while, so I thought a plywood climbing wall would fit the bill perfectly. When I shared my idea with my husband I think he thought I was bonkers at first, but luckily he’s super-practical, and he got on with planning the specifics.

Fonz helped us to plan out the arrangement of climbing holds. We fixed the first couple of holds on (screwed onto 18mm plywood board), and then we got him to stand on these and stretch to work out the best placement of the other holds. Once all the holds were securely screwed on (the larger holds are supplied with bolts to fix them on), the boards themselves were bolted to the wall with anchor bolts. We needed to add washers to space the board from the wall, because the climbing hold bolts protruded from the back. As the kids grow, we can take the boards down and rearrange the holds so that it will still be challenging for them.

I opted for an outdoors-theme for the bedroom as a whole (I’ll share more pics soon, as well as a tour of Ez’s new space), so to finish off the climbing wall I marked out a simple mountain skyline with masking tape and painted it green (Fonz wanted his room to be black, white and green).

Happy face | Growing SpacesAs you can see, we have one very happy customer. He loves his climbing wall, and can’t wait to show it off as soon as guests arrive. We can declare the move to separate rooms a resounding success, much to our relief.

Mountain climbing wall in a kids room | Growing SpacesThe mountains are painted in matt emulsion in Grenouille from Valspar (available exclusively from B&Q). The climbing holds are from Holdz.

 

 

Disclosure: I was given a voucher to purchase the paint from Valspar for this post

 

Posted In: Childhood Unplugged, Design Ideas, DIY, Family, Interiors, Our Home · Tagged: active kids, bedroom climbing wall, cool bedrooms, indoor climbing wall, kids rooms, unusual kids room ideas, unusual kids rooms

Comments

  1. Cerys says

    January 22, 2015 at 9:38 am

    there is all sorts of awesomeness here!!

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      January 23, 2015 at 9:25 am

      Thanks Cerys! Awesome is Fonz’s favourite word at the moment, so that’s bang on 🙂

      Reply
  2. Alexis says

    January 22, 2015 at 9:54 am

    This is amazing in the true sense of the word! But you knew that right!!?

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      January 23, 2015 at 9:26 am

      I knew he’d love it!

      Reply
  3. Sarah-Lou says

    January 22, 2015 at 10:03 am

    This must be the coolest little boys room ever! No wonder Fonz is grinning, it’s awesome! Xx

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      January 23, 2015 at 9:26 am

      He does think he’s pretty cool now. Ez is pretty handy on the wall too!

      Reply
  4. Sarah (@tamingtwins) says

    January 22, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    Heather this is THE coolest thing ever (apart from maybe a trapeze in a bedroom, say what?!) You are a way cool Mum. Want to adopt me?

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      January 23, 2015 at 9:28 am

      Thanks Sarah! I would so adopt you if you promise to bake for me all the time. Yum!

      Reply
  5. Mumtoamonster says

    January 22, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    coolest thing ever . Think my husband would want this

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      January 23, 2015 at 9:29 am

      I’m too scared to have a go in case it falls down!

      Reply
  6. Emma says

    January 22, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    This is quite possibly the coolest child’s bedroom ever. Bravo!

    Reply
  7. Chris @thinlyspread says

    January 22, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    I LOVE this!!!! So cool!

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      January 23, 2015 at 9:29 am

      Thanks lovely x

      Reply
  8. Lori says

    January 23, 2015 at 11:28 am

    Genius idea! F would love this! off to pin it x

    Reply
  9. kate says

    January 29, 2015 at 7:40 pm

    Do you have a blue print for recreating this? We live it and with our long Chicago winters this would be a great indoor active addition to our little space.

    Thans for sharing!
    Kate

    Reply
  10. Amanda says

    February 5, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    Excellent idea, and boy does he look chuffed!

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      February 11, 2015 at 9:15 am

      Chuffed definitely sums it up!

      Reply
  11. Jess @ Along Came Cherry says

    May 26, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    This is AMAZING!! Someone just told me about it as I had shared a link to a different type of climbing wall. Cherry has recently started at a climbing wall and is obsessed, totally showing my OH this later! x

    Reply
  12. Alyssa says

    March 3, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    What a great idea! I am featuring this on my website if you don’t mind.

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      March 21, 2016 at 12:40 pm

      Sorry not to get back to you sooner Alyssa. Yes, of course that’s fine to share!

      Reply
  13. Lydia F. says

    March 21, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    WTF? This is the worst idea I’ve ever seen, I hope your child doesn’t fall down and broke his neck.

    Reply
  14. alisa says

    March 29, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    Love it!! My son is two years old (today march29th!) and hubby did the same exact thing in our basement. We are trying to convert it into a playroom. I need more outdoor themed stuff for our walls. Please take more pics!!!

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      April 1, 2016 at 4:27 pm

      That’s so great Alisa! And thanks for the request – I will try to post some more of my son’s room in the next couple of weeks.

      Reply
  15. Andrea says

    July 9, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    I wanna do this in my son’s room. Does your little guy still use the rock wall?

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      July 13, 2016 at 1:44 pm

      Yes, he uses it almost everyday, and it’s still the first thing he does with friends when they come to visit.

      Reply
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    Reply
  17. Beth says

    December 1, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Is it a large room?
    It’s pretty darn awesome!!!

    Reply
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