Big Boy Room!

I need some advice stat!

Here's the deal. I am starting to kind of think about switching Big Squish and Miss Munchkin's rooms around. The nursery is huge and babies don't need all that space, and it would be great for Squish to have it instead for his 10,001 Hot Wheels. If I do this, I will cover the yellow striped nursery ceiling of course and go ahead and get a big boy bed for Squish. I really want him to have a full size bed also, not twins. The first picture and two photos below are my primary inspiration photos. 

Here is what he currently has:

{1} Navy and white striped curtains. The fabric is a great Ralph Lauren - 8" thick horizontal stripes - exactly like the stripes in the top photo. Love. I want him to have these through high school and when he is home for college. Same goes for the headboard. I do things once, great quality, so they last and last. 

{2} He also has the orange and white zebra rug from Jonathan Adler as shown in the photo below...

{3} ...As well as a HUGE arm chair and ottoman I want to recover as it is perfect for reading in every night. Literally all four of us fit in it!!! 

{4} We also have a very dark brown leather ottoman I could put at the foot of the bed that I think could look nice since the room has the space for it, and it would be a great way for him to climb into the bed before he can easily get in by himself. 

{5} The nightstands on either side of his crib right now are like literally out of an old western movie. Seriously. They are old old wood, like you would find out in an old barn on a ranch, but they are pretty cool. So I am open to keeping these OR buying two new chests of drawers for him as night stands. There is not a closet in the room so this might be the most sensible idea. 

So given that info and these photos, I mean there is obviously a big theme with the color palette I like - here are my questions: should I just paint the ceiling dark blue? Or should I do the entire room dark/navy blue...or is that too dark for a toddler? What headboard do I get? I would like it upholstered, most likely with nailhead trim. Maybe I just need to go find fabric first and play around. I like the brown velvet and it would go with everything, and I could use it in a future guest room. But too boring? Would I get sick of orange? Would an orange headboard be too much with the zebra rug? Should I find a patterned fabric that would hide dirt from muddy boy head and hands rubbing against it? Or patterned fabric for the chair and ottoman? 

I am loving these Jennifer Delonge storage units:

They come in tons of great colors {including orange, navy, white, wood....}

The nesting storage is great, too. One side of the top is wood and the other is chalk! Rock on. 

See here on her site.

{prepare to stay for at least an hour. everything she does is amazetastic.}

NOTE: I DO NOT. LIKE. TRENDY. And I am worried adding in bits of lime green is too trendy for me in the long run! I want to do the "big" pieces, namely the headboard, and potentially those chests of drawers, so they will last for 20+ years, but I will get things like the storage to accommodate his age and make the room work for him. But where do I start?! Tell me what to do about the ceiling, and then let me know what to do on the headboard...and then we can talk about the fabric for the chair, and pillows, and where I can find some awesome chests of drawers because I have painting out of my system until 2014. Sources! Give me sources! I feel like I have exhausted my source file on my computer and can't come up with anything that seems right. No Jonathan Adler type chests of drawers por favor.

Oh and I also like the idea of some big, patterned pillows...

The problem is that I like soooooo many styles of design. As with fashion and how I dress, sometimes I am feminine and girly, sometimes I am bold, sometimes I am rock n roll, sometimes I am modern and minimalist, sometimes I am hippie. Oh geez. 

TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Want the room dimensions? ;)