A child's room can be so fun. I always catch myself being pulled by some uncontrollable force into that department when we walk through Ikea or any other store. There is just something so fun about all of the colors, patterns, and unique wall decor.
When Ben and I first moved into this house, this is what Landon's room looked like....
My eyes squinted when I first saw this hideous salmon color. But I had a whirlwind of ideas of what we could do with this room. Of course like I mentioned before a room can't be transformed overnight - it takes time to add one added touch after another. To slowly add little things here and there and watch a room develop into what you pictured. That's the fun of it all!
First thing's first. Get rid of the pink. This picture doesn't even do it justice - trust us.
It looked worse in real life!
After looking over many paint swatches we decided to go with the color Blissful Blue by Sherwin Williams (6527). This was more what we imagined for this room. Yay, No more salmon! After putting in the furniture, and hanging up some shelving and pictures. This is what we were left with...
Ahhh, so much better.
Welcome to Landon's room! If you were here at our house at this very moment he would be pulling your hand to come on in. He loves this space. Every day he asks us to come and play in his room with him. It's cute to see that he loves it so much. Actually it might just be the train table he loves so much...that's probably it!
We tried to make this room a "reflection of him" in our eyes. His favorite things include trains, cars, dump trucks, planes, & boats. Typical boy right?
So we had fun searching for things of that nature for this room. I hit the jackpot when I found this adorable bedding. It had everything I was looking for! It's the UTELEK duvet cover from Ikea. You can check it out
Here. I just noticed they also came out with
this one as well. Super cute for a little boys room! I just think happiness when I look at this bedding and all that it has going on. So adorable.
This wall was pretty much the aftermath of my pregnancy projects with Jeremy. I think making art for a room can be so much more personal and special than buying overpriced pictures. So I got out the scrapbook paper and modge podge and got crackin. I can still remember the look on Ben's face when I'd start loading everything onto the kitchen table at 10:30 at night. As of right now - sleep is definitely the priority in this house! So let's be honest - these past few months that definitely isn't happening. But I'm thankful I was able to complete them when I did. It adds a little something special.
I'm sure you noticed from the title of this post that it says "photo project". Well after staring at this big blank wall and sifting through pictures on pinterest like
this and
this, the ideas came flooding in.
Ben brought it to my attention that blacks now offers 4x4 picture prints. You can imagine my excitement! I don't have an Instagram account but I really love the look of the small square pictures. So I was pretty thrilled to hear about this. If I can remember correctly I think Ben got a kiss for making that discovery!
I went through our photos and picked out some of our favourites.
Of course we had to include the people that Landon adores so much. Family and Friends!
We'll eventually add to the wall over time and switch out some pictures here and there as he grows, but I'd say we managed to get a good mix at the moment. And for those of you that are family and friends and haven't made it on the wall yet - you will eventually! I need to go through more pictures and ask people for permission first before I print out their face and pin it on the wall. This is just what we started with so far.
I wanted to go with the whole picture clothes line sort of look - so I picked up these mini clothes pins from Michaels. They were the perfect size for this project and looked so cute attached to the string.
Once I had all the pictures on the string and started to hang them up, I noticed something was missing. They didn't stand out exactly how I hoped they would. So I cut out squares of scrap book paper and glued them to the back of the pictures. Surprisingly this made a big difference.
I really liked this look better. Next we had to decide on the height that the pictures should be. They had to be high enough on the wall so that Landon wouldn't be constantly trying to grab them and pull them down. Once we found our desired height, we added some nails, put small looped knots in the ends of the string and hung them up.
We're really happy with how it turned out! It was a super easy project and I think it definitely makes this one big empty wall more complete now.
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| If you're wondering about the change in the bedding - Landon had an accident on the blanket. Oopsy! |
Once Landon gets a little bit older I think I might actually swoop them down more and add more strings of pictures under the last 2 on the bottom and maybe one more up in the left corner. But for now this is perfect for him and he loves pointing out all of the familiar faces:)
