Lighter and Brighter

John and I have talked forever about painting our room, but it just seemed to take the back seat to the other rooms in the house.  Finally a few weeks ago we decided it was time! We found the perfect color that we both agreed on and the paint was 15% off at our local hardware store.  We love the Royal Paint from Good's Store.  It always goes on so nice and looks great when it is finished.  When we first moved in the bedroom color was perfect and matched our bedding, but as always,I am not one to keep the same style for too long.    John bought the paint and when the weekend came he was painting away Saturday and Sunday.  Thankfully it was the only weekend we got snow, so I took the kids to my parents to sled while he knocked out the bedroom in a few hours. 

One thing I did want to suggest when painting was this paint edger. I really love using this and I have tried a couple.  Once I got the hang of it, it was perfect for painting the top trim of the wall.  

http://www.homedepot.com/buy/paint/paint-accessories-apparel/shur-line/paint-edger-55331.html

I apologize for my bad photography, I am not the greatest picture taker. You can see all the white patches from nails in the walls or just kids and furniture putting an extra ding in there. It felt so dark, almost an army green look.  

But then,

 Tada! 

A fresh crisp color and I feel like it is 100 times better.  I just love this room!  

Now all I need to do is add a few accessories and paint the side tables.  You can see a good view of one of the side tables ablove. I am not sure if I should paint them an antique white to match the armoire or black to match the bed.  Let me know what you think in a comment, I'd love for someone else to make this decision. ha ha.  Notice too, how good my green chair looks with the blue grey paint!! I am going to look around for a pretty blue grey chevron fabric for a pillow on the green chair.  Like this one here, but this one is a little more then what is in my decorating budget.  Here I am making more projects for myself, I think it is a sickness! Ha ha. 

http://www.allmodern.com/Twinkle-Living-ZigZag-Pillow-in-Seafoam-P01SW-TWL1228.html

Another plus...it has been 3 weeks and it still looks this clean!  Another great reason to paint my room, it takes a while before it gets messy again, because I don't want the Ahhh effect to go away every time I walk in.  

Thanks for reading! 

My Perfect Gathering Room

In our old house we had the perfect gathering room.  Somehow we would find ourselves constantly gathering in our son's nursery.  I don't know if it was because of the calming blues, or that there was so much love put into the making of his nursery and my husbands personal touch.  I talked about this room before in my Cheek to Cheek post. When we left our home, this room was the one room we missed the most.

In the beginning of it all this room needed some work.  Every night John would come home from work and put in a few hours patching, taping, and priming the nursery. I would sit outside the door and watch him for a while but soon be laying on the sofa with my feet up at 8 months pregnant.

cracks and heater marks

We found our inspiration for the nursery from a Jack Johnson CD.  That was about the time the Curious George Movie came out and Jack Johnson did the soundtrack for it.  We really like his music and the sketches in the CD were great!

John painted the ceiling and window wall a dark blue (Warm Spring)and the 3 remaining walls a lighter blue (Enchanting).  We matched it up close to the colors in the Jack Johnson CD.  

Enchanting from Behr Paints

Warm Spring from Behr Paints

 

John was really great with the mural, never having done one before. The great thing about my husband is that he is a perfectionist;  Which means it will turn out amazing 99% of the time.  

First he sketched the picture we wanted from the CD on the wall with a pencil.  I believe he used a quart of acrylic black and white and he just mixed them to make the gray shading on George and the paint bucket.  It truly looks amazing!

Once everything was painted we added the furniture we had. Also a nice plush carpet remnant we purchased from a local flooring shop for a great price.  I picked out a few pictures from the CD I wanted for the nursery and John blew them up for me to frame.  It was the perfect nursery! 

Johnny in his room

 I wish I would have taken more pictures of the whole room once everything was in it.  I wanted to add this picture of the rocker (and my baby boy).  This Rocker was my grandmothers, and for a time, my mom had it, so this rocker means a lot to me. So for our shower gift my grandparents had it reupholstered for the nursery. So I guess it was the love put in this room.  Everything had meaning in that room and now we are slowly doing the same for the bedroom they share now. That will be another post. 

By the way my computer is still acting a bit funny so we will be on a day to day trial with internet.  All because I wanted to find that Jack Johnson CD picture! One click and crash! I am thankful I can blog today and it is not totally fried!