Our former guest room turned Baby #2’s nursery is a medium-dark blue color (“Bleached Denim” to be exact – gotta love paint color names). We don’t know if we’ll be adopting a boy or a girl but I didn’t want the typical gender neutral color scheme with greens or yellows. Okay, so maybe I also just didn’t want to have to buy new paint and repaint the whole room either. So, if we end up adopting a baby girl, we’re bucking tradition and giving her a blue room. I figured I can hang the blue nylon butterflies around the perimeter, add some ruffles & feminine touches and she will have a cute, girly, blue nursery. Jury’s still out on a decoration theme for a boy.
I decided that I wanted to paint a wider horizontal stripe all the way around the room in the same light blue color we have in our living room (“Cumberland Fog” – so very appropriate since Jeff lived in Cumberland, MD for a while) with thinner white stripes above and below. Then it was figuring out the logistics of how to get not just one but three straight lines all the way around the room. That is, after I got my paint cans away from Shay who declared that they were "drums" and proceeded to "make music" with them!
Enter the magic of Amazon.com and a handy little suction wall mounted laser level gadget from Black & Decker! It was cheap and arrived the day after I ordered it. This project would not have gone nearly as well without it. Here’s my little laser level in action:
Now, I’ve been disheartened by painter’s tape before. The paint almost always bled through a little resulting in all kinds of messed up lines. Turns out, I was just using the wrong tape! This time I went with the higher priced Frog brand tape and it made a world of difference. Clean, straight lines! I’m pretty happy with the results:
Wow! Great job! And y'all can totally have a girly blue nursery. Our neighbor is a girl with a blue nursery. They added turtles as their decoration, and it really doesn't look like a "boy" nursery, just a baby nursery.
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