In May 2002, Mommy and Daddy bought this really pretty blue paint from Home Depot, with really good intentions of painting Matthew and Spencer's bedroom. One year later, they finally got around to using it. Grandma Marilyn and Pop-Pop came out to help paint.

Somewhat inspired by Trading Spaces (definitely not inspired by Hilde, probably inspired by Vern, with a theme, so that might be Kia, but no wallpaper border, so it might be Genevieve, but there's no photo copying or scanning...) Mommy got ideas. She actually got good ideas! So now we're beginning our adventure to a blue railroad inspired room, not in 48 hours but well under $1000!

Step One: Paint.

Matthew was disappointed that we didn't remove all of the furniture from the room. ("That's what they do on Trading Spaces!") Yes, I promise, he's only 4. I was there. I remember.

We didn't take a lot of before pictures but we took a few before we started painting:

 

Tarps are taped, in place. Daddy and Pop-Pop taped the tarps and cleaned the walls Friday night. You can see the "lilac" paint that Daddy painted in the Summer of 1998, before Matthew was born. It's about 5 years old!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the two pictures above, Matthew is standing in just about the same spot. In the first one, Kevin's looking from the door to the hallway. The door you see is to the bathroom. In the second picture, Kevin is standing on the opposite wall. Kevin's standing in the same spot to take the picture shown below:

To take the picture below, on the right, Kevin is standing in the same spot Matthew's standing in the picture above. Get it?

Ok, you may not be a spatial intelligence person, that's ok.

You see the open door to the hallway, the closet, and the closed bathroom door. Our digital camera does not take very wide angled pictures...

 

 

The picture on the left is, well, Matthew.

 

Daddy and Pop-Pop painted the edges of the walls, the corners, around the window and doors. After lunch, Daddy, Pop-Pop, and Matthew rolled the walls. Mommy supervised Matthew. Grandma Marilyn took pictures and encouraged the painters. Spencer took a nap. By 3:00, the room was painted. It looked go-od.

The color is more or less the same as this webpage. On our iBook. We don't know what it looks like on your computer, but it should be a periwinkle-ish blue color. It's very pretty. It was from Home Depot. The label called it Blueberry Shake but the girl cut the recipe in half so it wouldn't be too dark.

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