I know I’ve been blogging a lot about Alethea’s big girl room lately, but I feel like I’m in this semi-frantic, must get the room done mode, because I’m terrified I’m going to end up on bed rest and not be able to get it done. I’m not sure why I’m so convinced I’m going to end up on bed rest, we certainly had no issues with Alethea (a.k.a. Little Miss 2.5 Weeks Late) getting to full term! Maybe it just seems like the hardest possible scenario given my piano teaching schedule and being home alone during the day with a toddler. After all, I’ve never been accused of being an eternal optimist!
In any case, over these past few weeks I’ve been pretty much continually working on some part of Alethea’s room and so now it’s time for a little check up on what I’ve been doing. Besides getting the room painted and picking out quilt fabrics, I’ve also made a directional change in what I want to do with the focal wall. My original plan was to paint some large scale flowers on the east wall (opposite the closet). Here is my computer rendering:
However, after further consideration I decided two things:
1) Given my artistic skills there was too great a chance it would look like a 6 year old did it
2) Even with best case scenario, the flowers would probably look more country-crafty than exotic-elegant
So new plan – I bought a stencil and supplies to create this pattern on the wall:
I’m going to do the pattern gray on gray and I think it will look better, be cheaper and maybe even not take quite as much time as the original flower idea, although I’m a bit sad to lose the flowers since it is one of Alethea’s favorite words. I guess now I’ll have to teach her to say “lattice pattern”.
Next step: I need to get my sample paints out again to mix up a new shade of gray!
with a stencil, apply very little paint or it will run and get stuck to the wrong side of the stencil…have learned from experience. What about silver paint?
Also if you still want flowers somewhere you could always use some vinyl wall art
Alethea is going to have such a beautiftul room!
Hey LH,
Thanks for the tip. I did watch several YouTube “how to stencil” videos yesterday and they all seemed to warn about that, so it must be a pretty critical step. I’m sure I need multiple warnings though, because I can see that it would be tempting to use more paint to cover faster/finish more quickly!
Ooo… I hadn’t thought about silver paint, but that’s a cool idea. I might have to look into that, although, is a metallic paint going to be really expensive?
behr sells metallics in smaller containers, that are pre-mixed. I think I bought a copper onewhen we moved into the townhouse. I have used it to paint the stencil around the first floor and all of the face plates in the kitchen. I still have 1/2 the container. Since stencils do not use a lot of paint a little goes a long way. I think I spent around $15.00 for the container
the best brush to apply with stencil is those cheap foam brushes…I had the best luck with them