Mountain Room

It’s been an expensive couple of weeks. We had to get James a new big-kid bed (he calls it his “cool bed” – that’s its canopy in the foreground), we ordered 5 ceiling fans (one for each bedroom & one for front room), a whole lotta paint and a bunch of other smaller projects that just add up quickly (electrical, vent covers, new attic entry cover, etc). We painted mountains in his room using the same mixing method as the trees (see previous post), and we used the same wall color in both rooms. This helps the house have some “unity” but also saved us from buying another gallon. I used this pin as a loose reference when I was taping the mountains off. I rolled them as close as I could then Chris went in and tidied them up & connected the lines. Some (or all?) of them will probably get snow-capped at some point (we might also rough up the edges to make them less cartoony), but I’m satisfied calling it “done” for now. James room is almost the first *complete* room in our house – I just need to fix the dimmer and get a flooring transition strip down. The nursery isn’t far behind but it has more electrical that I want to play with (we’re getting rid of the ancient ugly almond stuff thats throughout the entire house and switching to white).

Forest Room

We almost have the nursery all put together & ready for the little one. This room was ghastly painted in Ohio State colors when we bought it, but the combination of glowing scarlet walls (you can see a tiny speck by the uncovered outlet) & gray trim did nothing for us. We’d browsed Pinterest for a while and I believe this pin was the inspiration for it (I’m not sure which one Chris was looking at when she taped it off – but she wanted more of a “rolling hills” look). I rolled out the basic hill shapes when I was doing the wall painting, but Chris & her mom did all the tree work. For the paint we picked a wall color and an accent color, then used mason jars to mix the 2 other colors ourselves. The “furthest” wave of trees is 2/3 wall color and 1/3 accent color, then the middle wave is the reverse. Mixing it ourselves eliminated the frustration of trying to find perfect “in-between” colors at Home Depot.

Honestly the mural makes me a little nostalgic about being in Athens in the fall (it’s the start of the Appalachia region, and is basically surrounded by Wayne National Forest), which then makes me realize that with the baby coming, we probably aren’t going to get to see much of fall this year. I just google image searched “Wayne National Forest autumn” & James glanced at the screen and said “wowww.”