so as i mentioned in the "GREAT room swap" posting... we are really shaking things up and moving things around at my home. today i am taking a moment to start gathering ideas to decorate Lily's new room. i love to decorate little girl rooms... having 2 little girls now i have quite a bit of practice doing it. Lily has informed me that her room is to be pink, and to tell the truth i am not a "pink" girl... i always leaned toward blue and purple growing up. pink was always too girlie for me... though it turns out that i have a "girlie girl".
i am starting to build the girls room around the PBK brooke quilt. there will be 2 twin beds (one for Lily and one for Chloe... when she's a bit older). other than these two elements, the color pink and the bedding, i am working from a blank slate.
the room is on the second floor and has pitched ceilings so painting can be tricky. i really don't want the room to end up a big pink box. so i am thinking of creating a wainscoting treatment to break up the color, otherwise i will have to paint the ceiling whatever color i paint the walls.
i came across this cute scalloped border treatment at OHDEEDOH today, "natalie's sleeping space". the woman featured found the this painting technique posted at the ISLY blog.i think that this may be the way to go. i can paint the walls pink and then create the scallop just under the roof line painting the scallop and everything above a nice white.
this is just a beginning, but every room needs a jumping off point.
(photos from today's post are from ohdeedoh.com and potterybarnkids.com)
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