Anna's New Bedroom

After months of talking about painting Anna's room, I finally got it done! However, not without some stress and mishaps. I started with the pink and it was way too dark. It looked awful. So after two trips to Lowes to get it lightened and to buy white paint to mix in, I finally got it lightened to an acceptable color. I also had to buy  primer to cover up the first pink and paint over what I had done. That added a couple of hours to the whole project. Had the colors been right, I could have easily finished in less time. Oh well, live and learn. :) It's funny too because I look at the walls and it seems like such a simple paint job, but it took hours and hours to finally have it all finished. I mean, I didn't fix my hair for two days, the house became a disaster because Anna's stuff was all over, I didn't have time to clean much, etc. It was so nice on Wednesday to actually wear a cute outfit and not grubby paint clothes. :)

It's still not what I had in mind. I was hoping for something a little lighter pink. The pictures make it look a little lighter than it really is. Also, the brown is a little too warm, I should have chosen a darker color. So even though it's not quite what I had in mind, I still think it turned out pretty cute. We also put up trim around the middle. Dan has a saw that will cut angles, so the trim was actually pretty easy to do and it really helped to pull the look together. 

Excuse the mess on her dresser. I was just putting things back together when I took the picture. :)

I'm now working on painting some wooden shelves and picture frames for the walls. I also have some brown vinyl that I'm going to put up with her name and some other cute sayings. Luckily, my Cricut machine will cut vinyl, so it's a lot cheaper than buying pre-cut phrases. At Michaels those things cost between$15-20! Just for a little phrase. I got 2 sheets of 12"x24" for $6 (had a 40% off coupon) that will make about the same amount of words, if not more. I'm also contemplating buying some pink vinyl and cutting out circles to put on the brown. I haven't quite decided for sure if I will do that. 

I'm going to paint the shelves white. 

I'm going to glue the flowers on them and paint the frames in different patterns of pink, brown, and white.

 

I'm just happy I finally got it done. We're now starting to paint the kitchen and living room. Finding the right shade of paint is such a pain! You find a color on the paint swatches that looks nice, but once the whole wall is that color, you realize it's not quite what you wanted. I bought a little can of paint and did little patches all over the kitchen and family room. The color I have is nice in the kitchen, but too dark in the family room, I think. It's so hard to decide! Anyways, hopefully in the next week, we'll get it all done and I'll post some more pictures. :)