Painting the Nursery

Since Dan and I have both had this past week off, we decided it would be a good time to go through everything in our entire house and get rid of everything that we don't need. Needless to say, half of our basement is now a garage sale pile, and every single closet and room of this house has been gone through and is completely organized. It feels amazing. We actually ended up with a little bit of spare room, which is good considering Dan and I had outgrown this house with just the 2 of us.

We have basically been working on the house all day everyday for just about a week now, and were able to get the nursery painted already. When I had originally suggested the idea of painting so early, I was just sure he was going to turn me down. He isn't always amused when I get too far ahead of things. But when presented with the reality that if it wasn't done now, it was probably going to be in the middle of a football game during the fall when it would be time to paint, he really didn't hesitate one minute to agree to the idea. :)

I knew all along that i wanted to go with a neutral color, so painting this early was not going to be a problem. I am also the type of person that had had my entire wedding planned for years before it actually occurred, so it would make sense that I have had most details of this nursery planned for many many months now too. I was also just positive that he was going to be more than annoyed with me when presented with the challenge of not just painting the nursery, but painting one entire wall in horizontal stripes. Not suprisingly, he didn't even bat an eye. (Perhaps this is because he is getting used to my love for painting now. The week before the wedding I decided that our bedroom had to be painted, and a day before we were having a Christmas party at our house for some classmates I decided that our bathroom had to be painted. He didn't fight me one bit then, and before we knew it we were buying paint and supplies, taping the rooms, and they were done! He is amazing, really. Not only does he not get extremely irritated with me like he very well could, but he helps me with every step of the process, and never complains. I really am sad now that the last room in our home has been painted.) Anyway, we collected every paint sample from Menards that was on the pallete in my mind, and came home to begin narrowing them down.

After another trip to Menards for paint and supplies, the next fun part was getting the lines to be perfectly level on the wall and taping. We used a laser level instead of a chalk line and I think it worked pretty well. It would have been much easier if our walls were actually square. This was by far the most meticulous part of the entire project.

After we got done taping the entire wall, we measured each of the stripes to make sure they were perfectly even. It's amazing how much of an illusion the tape makes in making the stripes look different sizes. We then covered each of the stripes that were to be white with paper so that paint wouldn't drip into those parts.

And then began the fun! The rest of the pictures are when progress was finally seemingly made.

After taking off the paper on the white lines....starting to get excited (and nervous about taking the yellow tape off to see how good or bad our lines look)!!

And here is the final result. It turned out as perfectly as I had it pictured in my mind. I LOVE IT! It looks better in person, because I have the cheapest, worst camera. It was either that or my phone so this is the best I can get. You get the idea, though!

We still haven't figured out of we are finding out what LD is or not, so this might be the last nursery picture until baby is born. Still haven't figured out how it's going to look if (when) it is a boy, but I'm thinking light coral and pink accents for a girl. Excited to see how it all turns out!