Shel & Bert: 24 Weeks Down

I completely admit to being a terrible blogger, but I actually have some down time tonight (when I'm not practicing balancing things on my belly :)

So I thought I'd post a few pictures of the babies room:

So here's the finished product (well, the paint at least, and please excuse the not-so-great iPhone photos):

And here's how I did it (in case you want to try to do some stripes in your house):

First, I painted the entire bottom section the white color I wanted to use for the stripes and the top part of the wall (above the chair rail).

Then I measured and marked where I wanted each of my lines. I made the white stripes 2 inches and the green stripes 5 inches. Then I had to use the laser level (my best friend in so many of my projects) to tape down all the sections. I started out using Frog Tape, but I wanted 2 inch white striped sections and Frog Tape doesn't come in a 2 inch width so I used delicate blue painters tape for the rest (which I thought worked just as well for these purposes).

The I painted over the tape with the white color to seal the tape--this is really important if your walls are textured.

Next, I painted the sections between the tape with the 2 shades of green I selected.

Finally, I carefully pulled off the tape , and voila!, The stripes were just about perfect! Only a few little flaws I was able to fix free hand with the white paint.

I wished I had taken pictures of the room before, but the walls were a basic tan shade. We used Sherwin Williams Superpaint, and I really loved it. I've used Behr before and liked it, but the Superpaint seemed to go on smoother & covered beautifully. We were really lucky and just happened to buy all the paint the one weekend a year when all of their paint was on sale for 40% off. So it didn't cost us more than it would have if we'd bought it at Lowe's or Home Depot. ALSO, we decided to use their paint samples to be sure I liked the greens--only about $5 for an entire quart of paint. I ended up loving the colors and we were able to paint all the stripes with just the samples. Perfect!

My parents came into town and finished the painting (above the chair rail & all the wood work). My mom convinced me that we needed to change out the wood blinds to white blinds and the knobs on the doors to white also. I really loved the way it turned out!

We don't have the furniture yet, but here's our bedding:
(Photo courtesy of Pottery Barn Kids)