After a year and half of living in our house we finally painted Quince’s bedroom. Since it’s his room we let him pick the colors, with limits of course.
We gave him a couple sets of colors to pick from. He chose the set with a blue, green, brown and orange. Being geared for children’s rooms the paint names were fun and catchy. One of ours was Gooy Green Monster, another Hot Chocolate. Richard and I decided which two would be the primary colors and the other two would be accents. In this case, the blue and green as primaries.
Here’s a spot on the wall after the three of us just threw paint on the wall. Quince’s works were very dynamic. He would start with a truck, then add water making it a fire truck, finally he had to add fire. By the time he was finished, you could no longer see the truck. Such as the case in the above photo. We had a lot of fun as a family doing that type of painting.
Here’s a panaramic photo of the room after we finished. The blue painters tape is the pattern we taped off to be exposed once the blue and green were on the wall. Richard felt like his room needed some sort of design on the top. He felt mountains would be fitting. You can see them at the top of the above photo.
Here it is exposed! Being the northwest corner of his room you can’t see the mountain design however it was a great tester area for how the rest of the room would look. Small enough that if we decided it was horrible we could still paint over the rest of the room. We felt it was great and fun. Also, it isn’t tacky or overwhelming. Here’s another view of the room.
At the moment the room still has some touch up to do, mostly on the divide between the blue and the green. We left it as is after pulling up the tape. There were a couple ideas tossed around but we were undecided on them. The biggest, speaking both metaphorically and physically, reason being the 5 ft x 3 ft slate slab making the chalkboard.
This slate has been with us for a few years. We originally purchased it from the Clallam County Historical Society garage sale. It was pulled from the building formally known as Lincoln School, just up the road from our house. At the time they were charging about $30-35 per slate, didn’t matter what size. Grand total we bought about 8 slabs. The idea was to remodel our kitchen(the house owned by Richard’s mom), and use them as our countertop. Even though we bought a house the idea still exists however, we don’t need as much as we have due to different sizes of the two kitchens. When we looked at our house we knew that Quince’s room needed a chalkboard. The smallest piece was selected to be the chalkboard in his bedroom.
Richard made the frame for it. I think he did an awesome job. What you can’t see in the photo is the led light strip inset in to the top piece of frame. There’s a track on the bottom piece to hold chalk.
This project was mostly finished before his birthday party, however it’s taken some time for me to get the post up. Until next time!