So I’ve decided to paint Miss H’s room. Why I keep painting her room (this will be the 3rd time) while other rooms in the house (like the master bedroom) are still desperately waiting for their first repainting I don’t know and I don’t care to examine too closely.
I first painted her room a (what I thought would be) lovely sunny yellow. It turned out more….mustardy. Ech. That’s when she was 3 years old and we had just moved into the house.
When she was turning 5, I repainted her room again. She was away at my parents’ house for the week and I thought it would be such a wonderful surprise for her to paint her room her favourite colour. Pink! I painted the lower ¾ of the walls a bubblegum pink and the top ¼ a more raspberry colour with a white moulding separating the two pinks. Super cute and super pink. Pink had been her favourite colour her WHOLE LIFE to that point, so I felt fairly confident with the colour choice. I accented the pink with black suede curtains and a black crystal chandelier. Then she got home from my parents and while she loved the room, informed me that her favourite colour was actually now blue. Sigh. So like her. I should have seen it coming a mile away.
So she’s had the pink room for three years now and it’s time for another change. The thing is, I really don’t want to spend much (read any) money on it. And wouldn’t you know, I happen to have a full bucket of never been opened paint in the garage. We had bought two gallons of the colour from back in our townhouse days but had only ended up needing one gallon. It’s a Ralph Lauren colour: Blue Leather. It’s a very deep gray/blue colour. More gray than blue. Perfect, I thought, for my girl. Very grown up, you know. So we talked about it. I painted a few squares on her wall to try to get a feeling of how it would look. It’s dark - I’m not gonna lie. And with the black curtains and chandelier, she’ll be living in a veritable cave. Of course, she likes it. She thinks it will be like a teenager’s room. And being almost 8, the idea of having a teenager-type is very appealing.
So I’m gonna do it. I’ll paint it next week while she is (again) up at my mom and dad’s place. Her latest favourite colour is yellow so I believe I will try to find a bright (light) hopefully yellow duvet cover at Ikea. And I believe I’ve seen a yellow metal earring screen in the shape of the Eiffel Tower at Claire’s which would also go well because Paris
I haven’t been able to upload pictures to the blog because my husbandy has been making me use my new iphone as our camera instead of our 7 year old clunker camera but I have been to lazy to try don’t know how to upload the photos to our computer from the phone yet so that’s a problem.
If and when I do figure out the picture thing, I’ll post some. Or here’s a brilliant idea – I’ll use the old camera to take some pictures of the room makeover. Yah, yah…..that’s using the ol’ noodle. I’ll keep you posted.
