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Paint, Paint and more Paint!
A shared girlie space battling out the differing tastes of two polar opposite tween daughters? Martha save me!
(Well… Glidden anyway.)
The walls were an off-white-peach color. But their furniture is white-white. And we recently purchased square book shelves also in white. Plus the ceiling was the same concealer makeup color and the light fixture only held one light bulb for the whole space.
The tweens have been planning and dreaming about fun paint colors for months. (Translation, they’ve been fighting about colors for months!) They finally decided on Purple and Green. Hmmm? I thought their Barney days were LONG GONE? The inspiration comes from our favorite frozen yogurt fill-it-yourself joint, painted a very deep eggplant and a green just this side of Nickelodeon Slime! Wow, I thought, can we really pull this off? It’s just paint right?
After multiple trips to the paint store, we came up with a plan we hoped would work. What do you think?
- Step One: Paint the ceiling, trim and door frames plain white in High Gloss. (Don’t tape the ceiling, but DO tape around the floor, trim and door frames!)
- Step Two: draw 2 lines in pencil 21 and 14 inches down from ceiling using a yardstick and level.
- Step Three: Paint with plain white semi-gloss inside the lines as best you can, don’t tape, don’t stress. You can still see a little bit of the pencil even after two coats of white paint.
- Step Four: Tape around the trim and along the white horizontal stripe. Paint the lower half of the room. Get the kids involved in the first coat of paint, not much they can screw up at this point!
After the Purple is finished, it’s starting to look like a Tween Girl Room!
- Step Five: Again tape off the horizontal stripe on the upper portion. Then use a nifty edger paint tool to edge along the ceiling, no need to tape that way.
- Step Six: Install new 3 bulb light fixture. Wow what a difference that made and it was only $25!
I hope you’re inspired to take on a kid’s bedroom paint project!
We are going to order vinyl lettering to march along in the space created by the white stripe.
The letters can be as large as 6 inches as the stripe is 7 inches wide. On one wall we’ll use words to describe one daughter, and the same for the other daughter on the opposite wall. And on the running long wall between.. I’m working on finding a phrase of some sort?
I like all of these, please help me decide!?
- Cre . ate: tr. v. To produce through artistic or imaginative effort. Create and Inspire. To make your own.
- Become Who You Are
- Go For It! Life is not a dress rehearsal
- Life is too short to be little – Benjamin Disreali
- Nothing is worth more than this day
- Only she who attempts the absurd, can achieve the impossible
- Everyone smiles in the same language
- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused
- When I count my blessings, I count you twice
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested
- The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing – Arabic Proverb
Paint colors used:
Glidden | White high gloss and semi-gloss, Purple semi-gloss: Orchid Blush, Green semi-gloss: Granny Smith Apple
Total cost: $145
5 gallons paint (on sale) $100, paint supplies $20, light fixture $25
Carissa received no compensation for this article.
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the project looks so much fun! Great color choices.
Thanks! It seriously took us over 3 months to come up with those colors and our real inspiration for the white stripe thing came from a funky bathroom in a Bend Oregon Fancy Shopping Mall!
my favorite: Become Who You Are . love the tween color. Better not show to mine or i’ll be painting
Ha! Paint away!
They’ll love you for it…
I like that phrase too, it would make them think about it, the deeper meaning… yes?
i agree with “become who you are” for the wall. love it!
Awesome job!! I just finished painting my daughters room a lighter purple & pink (sort of magenta). I also painted my sons room green, like buzz lighter year with sapphire blue. It’s alot of work, but when you see you’re finished project & their faces, it was well worth it. I wanted to know where did you get the girls beds, their really pretty? Hope they enjoy their room.
Oh wow, we got those beds ages ago when girls were little. They used to work up to bunk beds, but we’ve moved so many times and taken them apart so often I don’t dare put them up as bunks any longer!
It was an online furniture place and kind of cheap.. I think $600 for both beds and the two drawers. But you get what you pay for, they are completely made of pine. Now they are aching for better ‘matching’ bedding.. Christmas anyone??
i like 2 and 6 for the quotes…the room came out great. i love the shade of green!
This one is not on your list but I thought it was cute:
Free yourself by dancing with the wildflowers, wherever you find them.
•A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~ Isadora James
•A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you – who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything. ~ Pam Brown
•Between sisters, often, the child’s cry never dies down. “Never leave me,” it says; “do not abandon me. ~ Louise Bernikow
•Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks – expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs – that can undermine any tale you’re telling. ~ Pam Brown
•Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there. ~ Amy Li
•I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. ~ Emily Dickinson
•It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!
•One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. ~ Betsy Cohen
•She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child. ~ Barbara Alpert
•Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~ Pam Brown
Great stuff Rachel!! I really like:
It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!
I like #’s 2 and 11… What are the girls’ favorites?
The room looks great! You’re an inspiring mom
Thanks Melissa….
Um.. the funny thing is that I didn’t think about asking them yet what their favorite was!!
I have two daughter’s who are in this same stage. We have a vinyl that says “Sisters are forever friends” I really like the definition of Sister also…. not a traditional definition, but your own and your girls thoughts about what is important about sisterhood. A friend, a playmate, a comrade, an instigator. Good luck, I hope you find just the right one!