Michael Brown got a lesson in budgeting as well as a room makeover when his parents allowed him to convert his childhood playroom into a teen’s “cave.”
Given a budget of “a few thousand dollars,” the 13-year-old student changed the room in his home on Chickamauga Lake from a circus theme to one that speaks of his love of McCallie School and his passion for baseball.
Before the makeover, when friends came over, he would close the door to the brightly striped red, blue, yellow and green room “and pretend it’s a closest,” Michael said.
Now, his mother, Debbie, said, he has friends over almost every weekend.
The room makeover was a 2010 birthday present, his mother said. The seventh-grader was told he would need to get estimates for paint, art, furniture and the television he wanted.