Before I start telling you all about Little Miss Nelson's Nursery project I need to let you know that it would not have been even close to what it is if it wasn't for Kelly. He spent so much time working on it, drawing up different plans and going back to the drawing board when things wouldn't work out. He sometimes questioned if what he was really painting was for a girl and if I was still going to like it when it was finished. I am so grateful for a handy man in my life who can do anything and everything.
This room use to be my craft room aka the messiest room in the house. Well after we spent half a day getting everything moved down to the new craft room we were ready to finally start envisioning what we wanted this room to look like.
Before photos of the bedroom.
Slowly our house is changing colors in every room. Our whole house use to be this tan/beige color and well since we have been married we have painted over half of the house something new. Its crazy how much paint can change a home.
I am a Lowes Lover. We shop there for almost any project that involves our home improvement.
I love the Valspar paint line it always goes on great and the colors are always rich! I tend to pick colors that are vibrant and risky so having a paint that makes it look just like the card is awesome!
Indigo Cloth
and
Bella Grove Sorbet
are the two colors we used in this project both are from the Lowe's Valspar paint line.
Semi-Gloss Valspar Ultra Paint + Primer
this has very low odor and zero voc.
We painted the blue wall first and ran out of paint had to get more for touch up and a third coat.
Nala loves being anywhere close to Kelly but every time we paint she ends up wearing it. Same thing happened this go around, she rubbed up against the wall while it was wet and had a mint bum for over a week.
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| The base coats are done. Accent wall is Indigo Cloth and the other three walls are the Belle Grove Sorbet |
This is when things got rough real fast.
I had always envisioned a spanish Moroccan tile stencil on her wall.
After attempting to get the stencil we had borrowed from a nice friend it just wasn't going to work.
As you can tell..
So cover that back up and go back to the drawing board...
(This is why I mention that Kelly is an amazing husband)
I had showed Kelly a million different ideas on Pinterest. Stripes, argyle, stencils, different shapes. We went back and started looking again. I came across some metallic polka dots. I thought for sure if I showed it to Kelly he would just straight up laugh and say 'Yeah right, I am not painting that'... well, the total opposite happened. He was in for it.. Although once he had come up with several different grids and layouts we weren't sure how we were going to get the PERFECT CIRCLE on to the wall.
Luckily for us we have our resources and Kelly has an amazing sister who helps us with projects. We asked Krystal if we could cut 3" circles of contact paper on her Silhouette machine that we would then use as a stencil after sticking them to the wall. She has used contact paper for many stencils and said yes that would totally work. Well we got to cutting them out and after a roll of contact paper we were ready to get to work.
Kelly stayed up past midnight coming up with a better grid formation and then spacing them out and drawing the grid onto the wall with a sharpie highlighter and paint marker.
As you can tell not all of our circles that we cut even filled the whole wall and we did reuse some of them. But thats the glorious thing about contact paper its sticky enough to be used twice.
You may be thinking why didn't you go to Lowe's or Hobby Lobby to find your own polka dot stencil. Well I will let you know one thing yes there are some out on the market but they are all tiny little guys and to be honest they won't sit flush against your wall even with adhesive glue spray.
Next step. Test Kelly's painting skills once again and see if this polka dot thing is going to work.
Well after doing one coat on all of them and then going back and doing a quick second coat we were ready to see if we pulled the contact paper off what it would do?
Sadly the latex had just made a barrier with the contact paper so it was as if the paint wasn't sticking to the wall at all. Well, of course it was going to be a little harder for us to get what we wanted.
Kelly spent about 5 minutes on every circle after that with a x-acto knife going around the whole edge of the contact paper to get the paint to separate from the stencil.
AND IT WORKED!!! YAY!!
After 75 dots later we had a finished product... we had the cutest mint polka dots on the block.
Probably the only polka dots on the block because I don't think our neighbors are as crazy to paint polka dots or have the need to paint a bedroom like this.
The night we finished painting our room we also got to pick up our crib. We thought for sure we were going to have a couple of weeks before it would arrive to the store. Well it took 3 days... I am not complaining.
I didn't mention to Kelly that I had read it takes 5 hours with 3 men to set up..
#badwifestatus but I knew it would probably make him change his mind on the crib.
Well the next day he spent about 3 hours putting the crib together all by himself.
So whoever took 5 hours with 3 men obviously couldn't read or had some other issues.. hehe..
(Don't look at 'chicken'! Nala has moved all of her toys into this room thinking this where she gets to hang out now.. she definitely knows something is going on because we have spent so much time in this room for the last 2 months!)
I love love love love love love love love love love LOVE how this room turned out. We still have some other little secrets going on that I will post in Part 2 but until then don't you just love how symmetrical those polka dots are!!!
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