My daughter is about to turn 2 years old and she deserved a special room. I see a lot of tree wall decals that you can buy but I would probably end up ruining the decal and wasting my money so the first thing you need is a talented husband who is artistic. Well I just got lucky that I have one of those:-). Really there are beautiful wall decals that you can use but instead of spending $192.00 for the specific one I wanted my husband took on the task and painted it himself and it had cost about $10.00 for paint and brushes. A few tips we found along the way: 1.) use chalk to sketch your design before you paint, don't use pencil it's harder to get off the wall if you end up with lines outside the paint, chalk wipes right off. 2.) we discovered this when we were almost done but to paint fine lines use a paint marker to trace the outline and use it to fill in small sections. We found a few different size paint markers at a local craft store which also came in a variety of colors. 3.) TAKE YOUR TIME!
Here's my favorite part! The framed artwork. The bird and butterfly are painted on the wall. I bought 2 frames at $5.00 a piece and 2 black mattes at $2.99 a piece. I took off the back of the frame and left the matte and glass to frame the artwork, so cute! How we hung the frames and letter K: the frames and letter K are hung on the wall with nails just as you would hang any picture. The ribbon is thumb tacked to the tree branch where the bows are tied. Then the bottoms of the ribbons are not actually attached to the frames and letter, they are taped to the wall just behind the frame and letter. This gives a clean look and the ribbon is straight. If you attach the ribbon to the frames and try to hang from a nail they don't hang straight and don't lay flush to the wall giving them a not so neat look.
The window treatment. I used the front panel of material from her crib skirt. The crib skirt was only in use for a few months because once the crib mattress needed to be lowered to a safe height for the baby the crib skirt now crumpled to the floor. I'm all about being thrifty and stylish so I reused the crib skirt for the window treatment. It was so easy. I cut off the front of the skirt and used iron on Heat & Bond no sew adhesive on the top edge to make the pocket for the curtain rod. This took less than 10 minutes to do.
Now the only things left for me to do to complete the room is to get her new bedding for her Big Girl Toddler Bed and I'm going to attempt to make throw pillows from the never used crib bumper. You don't have to be artistic to have a great room. There are great design elements that you can purchase to create a great space. I just happen to get lucky that my husband was able to take on the task! Since I saved so much money with him doing the labor I guess I better buy him a nice present!!!
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