Red and white and blue
That's been the basic color scheme in Lucy's room for the past year and a half. Actually, it's a pale creamy yellow in the middle, not white, but the trim is all white. And around the top and the bottom of all four walls, these circus-bright red and blue stripes. This is how the room was when we moved in, and I've been meaning to paint it for the past year, and I just haven't gotten around to it.
The current look isn't horrible. It's creative and all. I just wanted something a little more feminine. Something that looks more like a 2-year-old girl. You see, Beth's room and Evie's room both have really, really cute painting schemes (also inherited from the previous owners); princesses in Beth's room and nursery rhymes in Evie's room. I want Lucy's room to be just as cute as theirs, but I am uncertain about my level of decorating skills. And so I just kept putting it off and putting it off.
But the other night I decided that if it was ever, ever going to get done before she went off to college, I needed to just get started. And so I did. First step: start painting over the brightest paint colors imaginable.
So I've got it done on three of the four walls. One coat of white primer, anyway. As you can see, it's going to take at least another coat of primer before I'll even attempt to paint it with the real colors I'm going to use.
And what are those real colors, you ask? Well, I have a general idea that the color scheme will be white and a pretty, springy green. White on the top half the wall and green on the bottom. And then around the middle I plan to find some kind of daisy stencil and paint a flowery daisy-type vine around the middle. And maybe some of these cute little ladybug guys crawling around too.
If anyone has any painting tips on how best to make these ideas work, please share. I'm currently working on this project one or two nights a week (I put Lucy to bed in our room and then paint, paint, paint away). So it's not exactly coming along quickly. But maybe, eventually, I'll get it done. Before she goes away to college, anyway. But no promises on it being before she starts first grade.
3 comments:
Unfortunately, I have no painting tips. But I do have a question: can there really be LADYbug GUYS? Either way I look at it, I can't make it work. Although, there MUST be ladybug dudes, inwhichcase whoever is responsible for naming those critters had very little regard for the sensitivity of the male ego. I guess we can't get around it. Ladybug guys it is.
ugh. decorating. I am proud of you for making the first steps. :) Thankfully we're renting and all our walls are plain white and we're not supposed to paint them. :) I have a fear of decorating. Maybe I'll get curtains up in the next year or so. :) Can't wait to see your finished product!
Kelly, you are so right. Although I did not think it through when writing that post, ladybug guys is pretty much an oxymoron; and yet it's an oxymoron that MUST exist. Unless they reproduce asexually, which I don't think they do.
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