Big Boy Room Project

Having a baby makes you all crazy about getting projects done so I have list of things to do. One of those things is redoing E's room. When we moved in we decorated his room with all the nursery stuff so now all the nursery stuff has been moved to the baby's room and E only has his new big boy bedding and not much else going on. So I got it in my head that I wanted to do something new. I decided I wanted to paint 2 horizontal stripes on his wall to start out and then pick out all his wall decor.
I called up my mom since she is really good with painting projects and she offered to come up today and measure everything and tape. Then the plan was to have Ry paint it tomorrow. My mom and I work pretty well together so things went remarkably fast. I measured and marked while she leveled and taped. It only took us one time around the room and everything matched up really well. To be honest, my mom only thought we'd only get the taping done today, but needless to say she was wrong. After about 2 hours of taping (and E interruptions) we were done.

We took a break to go to Home Depot and pick up the paint. I ended up taking E's pillow sham with us and they had the camera there to match the two stripe colors that I wanted, navy blue and khaki. I think the colors turned out matching really well. When we got home, I got E lunch and down for a nap while my mom started rocking it out on the painting. By the time I got in there she had already sealed the tape with the original wall color and started on the navy. So we worked on painting the stripes and ended up doing 3 coats of Navy and 2 coats of Khaki.

My mom took a look at me at one point while we were painting and said, "do you realize that these are totally BYU colors?" And then I looked down and I was even wearing my BYU t-shirt! Ironic, I guess. I guess we're a BYU family through and through. (I know I look so lovely on painting days!)

Anyway...we pulled the tape while it was still drying and started to touch up as E was waking up (perfect timing). So we tried to work around a riled up E since he was so excited that something fun was happening in his room. So here is the finished product. I am so proud! The colors turned out perfect, the size of the stripe is exactly what I wanted, and the lines came out totally straight. Hooray! We got it all done and cleaned up before Ry even got home. Needless to say, he is very excited about the room and the fact that he doesn't have to paint it.

Now if you guys have any good ideas for wall decor, send them my way.