An Enchanted Princess On the Side Of the Road…
… has very little to do with today’s post. 🙂
BUT, we wanted to show you some of the progress that we’ve made in the nursery and yes, an Enchanted Princess does make a guest appearance. Let’s back up, though. A few weeks ago, I showed you the game plan for Baby Girl’s room and explained our thoughts for the space. Today is all about PAINTING!
The room is finished. The painting, that is… and we are in love. When we first bought the house, the room was being used as a nursery and had white walls and a white ceiling. As I mentioned before, since we’ve lived here, it has evolved from nursery to catch-all to office space to baby shower catch-all and back to nursery. We cleaned it all out, leaving us with a blank slate to work with:
We decided that in terms of color, we definitely wanted some feminine touches of pink, but mostly wanted to keep things clean and light (and spacious-feeling) with a lot of white. The solution? White walls and a light pink ceiling!
It took some going back and forth to come to the right shade of pink for the room… we didn’t want anything too heavy (a dark ceiling would make the room feel smaller), nothing too sickly sweet pink (a lot of our other pieces and accents have hints of coral, so we wanted something to compliment those tones as well), but nothing too orange. Yikes. After taping up a bunch of paint chips, we narrowed it down to about four to choose from.
It was about this time that I encountered the Enchanted Princess on the side of the road… and I’m being serious. On my way home from work one day, I was driving along one of the windier, forest-y parts, and saw a Behr paint can lying on the side of the road. I drove past it, but then got to thinking… Wouldn’t that be funny… Well, curiosity got the better of me, I turned the car around, and went back to check it out. Sure enough, the label on the can was… ENCHANTED PRINCESS! A light pink color from the Behr Disney Line.
I brought the dirty, half-full can home just to see if there was any chance we’d be able to use it, but it ended up being a little too dark and too purple-y pink for what we were going for. Still, that’s pretty crazy that it could have even been in the running! So next time you see an Enchanted Princess on the side of the road… rescue her. She could be what you’ve been looking for all along. 🙂
Anyway, back to the paint colors. After much deliberation, we opted for a hue called “Candy Floss” by Behr (you can see it in the picture above). I wanted to be able to look up at the ceiling and see a definite PINK color and the other options were just a bit too orange-y, especially during the evening hours. In the end, it is the perfect shade for the ceiling and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.
In terms of the painting, I was in charge of the preparation and protection (we’ve been slowly adding some furniture that we wanted to cover in case of splatters)…
And Mitch got to work putting the color up…
When all was said and done, we had ourselves the sweetest pink ceiling in all the land!
For the walls, we did something we’ve never done before. Just went into Home Depot, bought a gallon of paint right off the shelf and walked out the door with it, totally un-tinted. We wanted something really bright and clean on the walls- a white with no under tones, so the “Ultra Bright White” from Behr (which is the base color that has no tinting to it) was what we went with. Crossing our fingers, we put it on the walls and it ended up being the perfect plain shade to fade into the background and allow that pink ceiling to be the highlight.
It’s all finished, looks beautiful, and has already served as the perfect back drop to the other pieces we’ve added since (the bookshelf below got a little “changing table” makeover… can’t wait to show ya!).
And that’s the tale of the paint for Baby T’s room!
PS. The Enchanted Princess lived happily ever after… as in, she’s sitting in our basement. Maybe some day we’ll find a use for her. 🙂
