Lots of good ideas here already, but I don't think this one was mentioned, so I'll toss it on the pile. Desks that slide over a bed. Congratulations on your adoption! Friends of ours adopted an out of country sibling group of four this year, two of them teens. It's been an amazing journey! The kids have been such a wonderful addition to their family. It hasn't been without bumps, but it's been good. I wish you and your son the very best!

My seven year old grandson has grown out of super heros! My friend who had collected all of these super heros and toys well until past the age of 60 is one of those guys who never grew up. He and his wife have only multiple cats, which is like having children that never grow up. He never accepted grown up responsibility for himself. Front and foremost with him was his intense desire to have toys and a mommy/wife. Fortunate for him that he married a woman who wanted to fill that role. It worked out beautifully for them. Unlike some things that get collected, these toys and assorted items were produced in mass quantities. You can find some manner of displaying them that will give them some legitimacy, but they are what they are. It seems that so many childrens toys now days are labeled as "collectible". Nonsense! A lot of kids "collect" those toys that come in a surprise bag or some kind of "egg" where the kid has to keep buying multiple bags in order to finally get lucky enough to get the one that they don't have. What a marketing scheme! They don't even play with these things. They just collect them and they end up scattered under the bed and on the floor of the car like the useless objects that they are. This is not a new marketing scheme. It has been around for a long time. Remember "collect them all"? Still, if a collection is to kept, unless it is kept to be displayed, it is useless. If it is to be kept because of projected future collecting value, it should be stored away where it won't get exposed. But, don't count on that future value. I suppose that, if he is a grown man, he will have a say in what is or is not in the home he shares with his significant other. But, Batman is so very unsightly that one could understand just why his significant other would question it. If he is young, he may still grow out of it! If he is older, he is set with it and you must love both him and Batman. Well, maybe not love Batman, but, at least let him give it a place in the home that you share.

My own experience is that yes, a girl's room MIGHT evolve, but most boys could care less, so "evolution" was due to wear and tear! When my daughter was expecting her first child (she knew it was a boy), she saw some bedding in either The Company Store or Garnet Hill catalogs. It had huge red cherries with green leaves. The dust ruffle was red/white check gingham. She bought the duvet cover for the twin beds in the room, and a matching sham, and the dust ruffle. And she bought some white sheets with a deep red scallop. The walls were painted a very pale robin's egg blue. She found some red/white large scale plaid and had roman blinds made. The rug was a carpet leftover in taupe. The crib had white pique bumper pads on which I sewed a trim of red ladybug swiss woven ribbon. The art on the wall was a grouping of prints from a calendar - they were reproductions of the alphabet from a famous children's book (no memory of what book). The room was adorable. Later, my late husband and I found the most adorable prints on a train over the Rannoch Moor - they were of cats dressed as various workers on a passenger train. Just charming. The dust ruffles finally wore out and ripped. The duvet covers had stains that would no longer come out. The dust ruffles were replaced with a blue/white striped sort of ticking kind of material - ready-made. We found darling hand-made patchwork quilts in primary colors at LLBean. Blue/wht gingham duvet covers came from Pottery Barn for kids. When I reupholstered my late mother's sofa, the existing loveseat-size sleep sofa left my library and ended up in the boy's bedroom (it's a large room - about 20x20 and the two boys have shared it since the younger was 2). Later, the rug had become a biohazard and it was replaced with a strong Yale blue remnant. The alphabet prints came down, but the cat prints stayed but where they were hung changed. Sheets are still going strong! A hue wall-hanging that is a map of Martha's Vineyard is now on the wall. But wall color is the same and those roman blinds are hanging in. The boys are now 16 and almost 19 (he's at college so now younger brother has it all to himself). I like to see children's rooms look "nice", but I do not like a highly decorated children's room. When I see ones with Stark rugs and de Gournay wallpaper, and bedding from Porthault, I am repulsed. Such a horrible use of very special things that will be badly treated, no matter how well brought up the child is. Children wet the bed, throw up in the bed or on the rug, put their dirty little paws on the walls. I cannot stand to see lovely thing abused, or a child so limited by the "preciousness" of his room, that he is only allowed to sleep in it. When DGS1 was getting ready to go off the college last fall, his mother wanted his input on bedding for his dorm room. To say there was a distinct lack of interest is an understatement! She choose checked sheets and a contrasting duvet cover but he didn't care. She has friends whose daughters wanted their mother to hire an interior designer to "decorate" their dorm rooms as many of the other girls were doing. DD is SO glad she has two boys! Her home is important to her and she wants it to be attractive, but a designer for a dorm room? Dust ruffles? Curtains? NOT her thing!

I think your room looks great! I would only make a few tweaks! -either lose the rug or replace with a larger one, not brown. Maybe muted colors with more texture pattern to it? Or something with an accent color. I don’t think you need it - but if you want a rug for added texture and color- add texture and color! :) -the wall space above each dresser is a little bare. Maybe a mirror or artwork over each- or, a tall case or plant there- some height here there would help. -on your night stands, I’d re-home the plants and find something with more height. -can you eliminate the plastic drawer unit next to the wall? I’d see if you can thin out your drawers/closet enough that you don’t need that. It fits there, but looks crammed. Or, can it fit in the closet where it’s out of sight? -finally, I’d clear off the table under the TV. Leave TV related equipment. Then style it a bit, maybe a short stack of two books with one of those small plants on top. Give it a little style so it’s less utilitarian and looks like it’s part of the decor! I think your room is beautiful and don’t think you need any major changes, just a few tweaks! That’s my opinion! :)