The Outer Boys' Room

 

This is Mxyl and Oob's room, the previous Klenda and Leena's room.

It took two coats of base layer yellow to cover the blue walls, and then two more coats of gold. Yes.  We painted it four times!

Fortunately Mxyl did most of the work.

The boys picked out purple curtains, which does remind me of the poem:  "his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold..."

But I guess that makes it a classic combination!

 It's a much larger room than the one Mxyl had been in, and there is more space to, say, construct your own recreation of Land of the Lost in Legos, if you are inclined to do that sort of thing.  Which they are.



The boys happen to own a large statue of Jesus.  It wasn't until I put it up on a shelf that I realized the visual significance of a gold room.

 It looks like an icon. 

If you aren't familiar with icons, they are highly stylized religious representations intended to be "windows into heaven."  Which means that they are extremely symbolic to the extent that icons are not said to be "painted," but rather, "written."

In the "language" of iconography, a gold background denotes the scene is in heaven.

Scenes on earth usually, but not always, have a black or dark background.    I didn't know that until I saw an icon showing the Baptism of the Lord and asked  why Jesus was being baptized at night.

Mxyl and Oob are enjoying their heavenly room!