Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tutorial Tuesday! Designing Little Bud's bedroom.




Today for Tutorial Tuesday, I thought I'd share my project of designing Little Bud's bedroom. Being in military house can get very monotonous since all the walls are white and everything is cookie cutter style. So we decided to paint the boys bedrooms. Amazing what color and decor can do to a room! 



We started with Little bud's bedroom first which turned into both boys bedroom as we wanted them to have a playroom. Nolan loves giraffes so that's the theme I went with. Here is the before pictures of part 1, painting the walls!

Before


Before 

I was blessed to have two great neighbors when we moved here who helped me paint the walls. Here is the pictures of step two of process of painting the walls.




I taped off where I want the spots to end and then painted about 3 layers of a low VOC yellow paint. Took alot of time with two boys always trying to get into everything. I painted the bottom fully up to the base of the yellow. I couldnt find a stencil at the time for giraffe spots so I painted them all by hand. Which is why some 




 I couldn't find a stencil at the time for giraffe spots so I painted them all by hand. Which is why some of them go up higher or lower. I was overexcited about doing the bedroom that I thought it would be able to be done in the one day. Definitely doesn't work with trying to juggle the boys while doing it. 






Part two is putting the finishing touches on his giraffe and tree that are painted on the walls and adding in the decor! I am really excited to have this room finished soon. Keep reading my blog to be updated by the progress of my projects!

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