Ramona Griffin
G& G Interior Design, Bessemer
When Ramona Griffin of G&G Interior Design participated in the ShowHouse for the first time last year, she created with a girl’s bedroom full of flounces and other feminine touches.
This year, her ShowHouse space is decidedly different. A boy’s bedroom upstairs in the house was inspired by the great outdoors.
“I did my son’s room last year when he turned 15,” Griffin said. “It was fun.”
The Bessemer-based designer said she wanted the room to be well put together “but not too decorated.”
“I wanted to make this a really cool space without spending a fortune,” she said.
With the goal of showing ShowHouse visitors do-it-yourself ideas, Griffin stenciled the wall behind the room’s twin beds with a birch forest motif. She also made the beds’ headboards out of wooden pallets.
The framed pictures over each bed are Griffin’s handiwork, too. One is a silhouette of a deer’s head on a background of red and gray stripes, while the other has a leaping fish against blue and silver stripes.
“Duck Dynasty” fans will recognize the TV show’s Uncle Si as the figure on the bedside alarm clock, one of the fun accessories Griffin chose for the room.
Instead of hanging actual animal heads on the walls, Griffin put up a mounted silver resin deer head.
She chose plaid coverlets for the beds and brightened window panels with chevron-print inserts.
For a natural touch in the adjoining bathroom, she found a bowl handmade from wormy cottonwood.
Throughout the space, Griffin tried for a low-key look that’s both boy- and mom-friendly.
“This room is for an outdoors-type boy who likes things like hunting and fishing,” Griffin said.
