Baby James' Room

So, me and two of my best friends (also designers) and my best friend Ashley's wonderful and handy husband made a trip to Texarkana on Saturday to help another one of my best friends decorate her baby boys room. It really was like one of those HGTV shows where you have one day and a very limited budget. Stephanie already had the room painted a light oceany blue when we got there. We knocked out the rest!

I know this is supposed to be a fashion blog, but I just had to share!

Here is the before. Her mother-in-law had already purchased her a baby bed. We were all skeptical of the oak. But it turned out to be perfect!

I orginally asked Steph if we could do one whole wall in chalk board paint. She wasn't too thrilled with the idea and Ryan (Ashley's husband) said it was a tedious task of layers and layers of the chalk board paint and each layer had to "cure". Apparently not a easy task. So, I settled on a smaller chalkboard to hang in the room. At first my idea was to find an ornate frame and paint it glossy white and then painting a piece of MDF with the chalkboard paint. Again, making more trouble for myself. We ended up finding a ready made chalk board at Hobby Lobby and added popsicle sticks to the frame for a sort of modified star-burst effect.

Here was the idea for that. http://windhula.blogspot.com/2010/02/time-for-another-sunburst.html

There's me. It turned out to be a little more tedious than I thought! This is the final pattern after I had pull them off and started again 5 times! I suppose looking back I should have layed them out first THEN glued and stapled!

Finished product before Sliver spray paint.

Final Product! You really could not tell it was popsicle sticks!

Brittany was in charge of the mommy and daddy silhouettes. They turned out better than I could ever imagined!

Ashley painting the plaques with "mommy and daddy" curly letters. She had to convince me of the curly letters... I never should have doubted her.

How cute are these!!

We originally planned on just doing a horizontal striped wall. But, that would have been too easy! I found an idea on how to do a Chevron wall stripe so we decided on that. Here is Ryan doing the first of many trial tapings...

After about 3 tries we decided to actually follow the blog directions and who knew that was the best way! I guess you should just listen to people that have done these things before. They probably went through the same process trying to find an "easier way". Well there is no easy way. Lots of measuring and numbers. I let Ryan do most of that!

Starting to come together. This was at about 12 a.m. that the painting finally started.

Voila! Totally worth it! I don't know if Ryan would agree but, It really made the room.

Globe mobile! I am obsessed with globes!

Ashley had already made these inital plaques. They were precious. She also found door knobs to hang the ribbon on. Such a great idea. They looked so manly and industrial : )

Final Silhouettes with mommy and daddy plaques. Probably my most favorite thing in the room.

I didn't get a good picture of the drapes Ashley made but, we found the most perfect chevron pattern at a tiny little quilting shop in Texarkana. They really pulled the room together and she did such a great job on the sewing at 2 in the morning!!

I'm in love with this room!

Chevron Wall How to:

http://caitlinwilsondesign.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-chevron-wall.html