Autism proof decor.

When I first got married the walls were covered in frames, and posters and prints, the bookcase had books and the coffee table had magazines. The kitchen had glasses and dishes. There were glass bottles in the fridge. There were pretty toothbrush holders and soap dishes in the bathroom, also fancy towels with pretty designs.
 ITS ALL GONE NOW!
What hasn't been broken or torn to shreds, has been packed away in a fashion that would make a refugee's head spin, my usual package to pack stuff up in a hurry, Diaper boxes, my closets look like a display for Huggies.

When you first have children you go into survival mode: Eat, sleep, go to work, pay the bills, run only the things you need errands. throw in a few fun times with friends and hubby and that has been our life for a while, with new diagnosis and Inky's birth, I felt like our survival mode lasted longer than it should.

I am starting to want to do things to my house, but I have a different vision, instead of a living room, I want a sensory room for Binky, I think it would help him stay calm. In the kitchen there is nothing Binky can break so I am able to relax a bit. Last night Binky got mad and swept off things in the kitchen and I didn't flinch, nothing we own now can break. or if it does break I can replace it cheaply.

I want to make Binky's room something nice but also something that wasn't going to blow up in my face if he tore it up in a meltdown, so I did some research and got some ideas and today I went to the store, I got some poster tape and self laminate pages and a great site that lets me legally print pictures of helicopter and BOOM! Hard plastic sheets of paper stuck on a wall with cheap poster tape, and it cost me about $14. for 10 pictures. I put Five up for now, and I am going to wait to see what I will need to do next.

 I should rewind and tell you what started this episode of design star started. I wrote to Bell Helicopter and told them about Binky, and his love of Bell Helicopters, I even sent them a picture of Binky with a Bell Helicopter and the Fine people of Bell Helicopter sent us a lovely gift package and in it was a large poster of Binky's favorite helicopter the V-22 Osprey, or as Binky calls it Airplane Helicopter, he says it like you would say "his name is John Smith." It was so nice and I wanted to frame it but frames take time(which I have none) and cost money ( which I have some but I need it for other thing) and in a pile of taken down art work I found a large print, and suddenly I realized it was near the same size as the Osprey poster!

 so now this wonderful poster that had been rolled away was out in the open and I wanted to put it in Binky's room and it looked great, but now I realize that at age 7 Binky need a more grown up/kid friendly room.  I looked into wall decals and poster which should be in this week and with the addition of the laminated photos,  the room is coming together wonderfully, Binky's keeps all of this airplanes and helicopter in his room so they blend right into the decor. I figured out how to have a nice home and still keep Binky safe.