The Coral Reef

My poor girls have never had a room they wanted. 


Since we moved so much, we were always prepping the house to sell. So, all the rooms were neutral. They once had a yellow room, albeit a soft yellow, and once a relaxing green.


Not their choice, though.


So I promised them that this house would be different. Since we are going to stay here (hopefully) forever, they were welcome to choose a theme for their room and help me paint. Yup, I'm still in charge of the colors. Major control freak over here.


But anyways! Bonnie wanted a coral reef. So we started with blue - a darker blue on the walls and a lighter blue on the "sky". The transition between the two colors is actually at the top of the walls in "waves". Then we added fish stickers.

Need to change the curtains...eventually...sadly, Bonnie nixed the floaty white curtains

More waves and fishes

In case you're interested: I added tick marks about 12" down from the ceiling all the way around the room, then drew the waves freehand. I made sure to hit the tick marks every now and again, going higher and lower as I felt like it. So even though it's really free-form, it doesn't look lopsided.


That's as far as we've come on her room...but with the painting done, the rest is mostly just shopping, right? And that's the fun part!