Nursery Wall - singular.

We're expecting another bundle of roughness and toughness this November.  Ahh, 3 boys.  Our lives will never be the same.  :)

When we bought our house in March, we had no idea we were in the very early stages of pregnancy, so our house shopping criteria didn't come close to thinking of a wee-one.
A few weeks after closing- SURPRISE! :)

So, since all of our secondary bedrooms are upstairs, we're doing a "Nursery Nook" in our Master Bedroom downstairs. Just the thought of trudging up those stairs 3 to 4 times throughout the night, after another c-section makes me hurt.  :p

We're not wanting to totally baby out the room, so we're choosing to do decor that goes with what we currently have - but fun and whimsical for a child.  When I do get ready to move the baby to his own room sooo far far away from us, everything should be pretty easy to relocate.  Okay, except for THIS project.  haha.

I've already posted about the dresser remodel (which, by the way isn't even going in our room due to space constraints, but anyhoo), so here is the next chapter in the "Nursery Nook" saga:  The Nursery Wall - singular, because the kiddo only gets one wall his little little Nook.  :p  Okay, one and 1/8th.

Here is the wall before:

Ignore the funky chair and ottoman waiting to be slipped, and obviously the crib is not "dressed."

First of all, I'm obviously way to in love with the print on these curtains (below) for my own good, because I keep buying them, only to chop them up to use all over the house.

AHHH... okay, it appears that they aren't for sale anymore online to steal a photo from.  :(

but it is the same fabric I used for the curtains under my sink.

and for the curtains under a buffet, and for the curtains in my laundry room...

......and, in frames above our bed, and... for part of the baby's bedding I'm working on.

Yep, I like the fabric.  LOL.

So I decided that I SOMEHOW wanted to put this pattern on the baby's wall.

I thought about doing vertical stripes.. eh, too busy.

I thought about doing large Stars with the stripes inside...

Nice, but man that would be a lot of work to make perfect stars.

So, I settled on doing large circles, with the pattern inside.

I started by using a pen and string (high tech, here  :p ) and making various size circles on the wall.

I then taped off the stripes so that it mimicked the pattern on the panels.

Then came the paint.

I started with the darkest color, let it dry, and then went back and taped off the other colors.  From the beginning I planned on changing the wall color, but I thought I could use it as one of the colors of the stripes for this process.  However, it ended up looking just plain gray against the other colors rather than aqua.. so it all went in the end.

Here is the finished wall:

I'm really liking that it's fun, yet it doesn't scream BABY at us.  Especially since our king size bed looks directly at this wall.  


Thanks for looking, and for any comments!  :)  Edited to add:  check out the sidebar label for nursery to see other projects relating to this area.