Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Nursery
Your supposed to finish the Nursery before the baby gets here but we haven't felt very settled till now so I unintentionally ended up doing my DD's entire room. Whoops! It was supposed to just be painted, then I was supposed to just hang a few things, then I was just supposed to rearrange the furniture. Two and half months later and it's finally done!
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| This was her original room. (I didn't pick that green paint color it was already there.) |
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| View on the other side of her old room. |
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| I decided to move her into this room, and move her brother into another room. This room doesn't pick up as much sound and she's a light sleeper. Anyway I hadn't done anything to the room...obviously. Her brothers rooms are my next projects. |
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| Another view. |
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| I don't have any early on pictures but oh well. This was my first attempt. It wasn't working for me. The tissue poms are cute but they weren't giving the feeling I wanted. That art to the right was my inspiration for the room. I wanted softness and a feeling of being in a dream. The poms came down and I brainstormed! |
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| I decided trees would be pretty. Aspen/Birch like trees. I found a little tutorial at this blog. |
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| The taping and tape cutting took the longest. |
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| I didn't paint the trees in very heavy. I wanted to avoid having them look solid and perfect. |
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| Then I started fixing and painting on more branches. |
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| This really was my favorite part. |
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| I rearranged the furniture about six times total. |
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| It drove me crazy that there were all these trees and branches yet her name was just floating on the wall! |
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| Thinking I was done for a day. |
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| We get enough Winter where I live so I wanted to make it feel less stark. The green leaves were pretty but too realistic for my "dream" room. |
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| Love these real birch candle holders from this etsy shop! |
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| And done! |
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| These scrapbooking butterflies I got at Joanne's for like $3 a package and I bought like 3 or 4 sets. I love how they are so subtle but add so much. |
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| The mobile I made. |
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| I spray painted the lamp, dresser knobs, Dream sign, and her name letters. One can of "Ballerina Slipper " Pink spray paint! |
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| I really love it. I feel like the tree's branches give the illusion of no corners...like the room is bigger then it is or something. |
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| I wasn't planning on doing trees all the way over this far but like I said earlier, the free floating name was bugging me. I just free handed these trees and they are actually my favorite out of all of them. I sort of wish I had free handed all of them. |
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| The inspiration. "Hope is a waking dream." Print is from http://www.kellimurray.com/ |
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| Another Kelli Murray print. I plan to eventually put it in a square frame, next time I'm at Michaels. I adore this print though! |
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| I dripped white and lavender paint down these, the solid pink was too...solid. I like the surreal-ness of the paint drips. |
Well there it is. I love how it turned out, I love walking into her room cus I feel like I'm walking into another world. I hope to add more details to the mural eventually... a spiderweb here and there, details on the leaves, etc. If you are wondering why I didn't follow the theme of her actually crib bedding...it's because she'll be out of a crib within a year. Planning ahead I want to get her bedding like this or this or this, you get the point.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Hallway Before and Afters
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| Entryway |
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| Hallway |
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| Looking in from kitchen |
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| My Child's lovely sharpie mural... |
I left his mural up for awhile cus to be honest I found the thing pretty hilarious. Finally I decided it was time to paint. I knew I wanted yellow but I was honestly a little terrified because I tried painting a room yellow in our last house and I sort of hated it. I picked a pretty horrible shade though. I went to the paint store at Parker Paint and talked to the guys there forever. They were SO helpful. I told them I wanted yellow but not too yellow or too bright. I brought home lots of samples and called my Mom 50 times in 3 days trying to figure out what to do. I felt like the light yellow would be too bright and the dark yellow would be too dark so after scouring the internet for hours I decided on both yellows and a chair rail. I LOVE IT!!! I think it turned out amazing. I love the glow it gives, I love that the hallway feels warm and spacious! The light yellow is called Harvest Corn or Corn Harvest, I can't recall at the moment, and the darker yellow which is two shades darker the the light is called Beach Tan. I actually ended up painting one of the bedrooms with the Corn Harvest, and the Master Bedroom the Beach Tan (Pics for those later!)
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