Baseball fever hits home: one boy's bedroom gets a makeover - Home Guide - Brief Article

Sunset, July, 2002 by Peter O. Whiteley

The names on the dark green Seattle Mariners locker doors read Ichiro, B. Boone, K. Sasaki, and C. Werre. That last name may throw baseball fans for a loop, but these aren't ordinary lockers--they're closet doors in the bedroom of 9-year-old Craig Werre. The doors are part of the young fan's bedroom remodel that includes a maple locker-room bench, curtain rods with baseball finials, bats custom-turned by his grandfather, hat racks for his caps, posters and banners, a wallpaper border of Mariners logos, and a Mariners paint job of deep green and pinstriped gray.

The lockers started as a set of ordinary hollow-core bifold closet doors. Craig's dad applied louvers made from short lengths of quarter-round molding, then he painted the doors with several cans of high-gloss metallic paint. He carved the locker handles from scrap wood and painted them silver. He also cut the nameplate brackets and added the names using self-adhesive letters. The decor was a grand-slam success with Craig, who says, "I live in Marinersland!"

DESIGN: Jeanette and Jace Werre, Renton, WA