As requested, here are pictures of the “stripes” painting project in my younger son’s room. Working with my younger son was very different from working with tthe older one. My younger son has a very strong sense of his physical surroundings and knew exactly how he wanted the room to be. He chose the colors, the wall lamps and the curtain fabric. the lamps have wire spider webs over their faces, and little metal spiders perched on their rims. The curtains are the same color blue as the blue stripe, but a lighter tint, so their is no harshness in the contrast. I’m very proud of him for getting that right. The room is waiting on a few warm-weather projects. When I can paint outside, I will stain the toybox-bench yellow and cover the seats with the curtain fabric, and I will build a tall bookcase and paint it to continue the stripes. When I’ve got the paint out for that, I’ll paint the lamp cords too.
Again, I did try to keep the room neat lonmg enough to take pictures. That white plastic drawer thing in the corner is only about half of our Lego collection.
Here are two views of the walls with their stripes and trim:
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Here I am talking to myself again. These are some details of the room. First is a picture of the light switch plate which I covered with the curtain fabric. Our light switch plates are clear plastic with a paper inside that can be removed and painted to match or compliment the walls. It gives a nice depth to the color to be set back behind an eithth inch of clear plexi. But the previous owner removed the paper and painted the inside of the plate, so there was nothing I could do but paint the outside of the plate, making it nothing special at all. So I got out my repositionable adhesive and my hot-melt glue gun and covered the plate with a small bit of fabric. I cut around what I thought was a fun detail of the design. The switch plate and the closet door knobs were the only details I added to surprise my son. The rest was his plan.
The closet door knobs are plastic lizards with colors that looked great with the stripes. I removed the regular knobs and used 1 1/2 inch wood screws that went through the pre-drilled door and into the solid plastic bodies of the toy lizards. My sons loves them. They don't sit quite flat on the doors, but look as though they are clliming up the surface. since I screwed them on using the holes that were already there for the regular knobs, it will be a five-minute fix when this kid decides that lizard knobs are just too dumb.
I love the colors he picked! Very very cool. Good job to both of you!
Thanks, Tessa
With every room I get better at both the prep and the painting. So what am I doing now? Getting ready to paint a living room dining room and hallway all the same shade of creamy white. I'll think of some detail to add along the way.
edited to correct random bad typing
Edited 3/9/2004 1:40:28 PM ET by Tish
What a great room! I love the colors he picked, he has a good asthetic sense. AnnL; MotherHen/Hobby Farmer
Good work! Props to the designer and the craftsman.
I especially like those lizards. Details make the difference. If you can't play a sport, be one.
This room looks great too! I love your younger son's attention to color and detail.
Good job Mom!