By sion, on March 24th, 2006%
(originally posted at WC PL)
hmm. I was thinking about painting something on, originally. I meant to mention: she’s got a half-dozen giant softsculpture flower thingies with bendable stems, and they look hell cute twined around the bars of the cot, so I’d been trying to think of something that will go with them.
I would love pale green on the walls. Or even, although I’m not generally fond of feature wall type things, green and yellow on alternate walls. They were going to strip wallpaper & repaint & recarpet before I moved in, but I asked them not to because el was going through a wall-drawing stage (and is still in a drink-spilling, ketchup-dropping stage), so I MIGHT be able to convince them to let me paint since they really need to repaint when I move out anyway. If they let me, well wahey, I’m gonna paint her playroom pink & orange!
the dresser also needs to be painted. Oh, and one of the things I have is a book of flower fairy alphabet plates, which I was considering turning into a sort of border on the walls using removable glue.
oh yeah, and I forgot.
Somewhere, there has to be a flamingo. Life sized: painted, stuffed, I dun care, but there WILL be a goddamn flamingo.
By sion, on March 24th, 2006%
 The dressing table. May become her desk, not sure yet. If it doesn’t become her desk it may be relegated to some other room rather than painted.
 
LEFT: Stripe colours, and a selection of the fabrics that will be used for trims & joins.
RIGHT: Sparkly spotty sheers net, with the watermelony stripe intended for the hem.
 LEFT: Lovely limey green mozzie net canopy. To be decorated with some sort of bigtop/pavillion valance and/or flowers & shit. I even thought about lace, but no.
By sion, on March 24th, 2006%
(originally posted at WC PL)
I originally envisioned the coloured stripes AS circusy, with no black, but having laid some out decided I didn’t like it in the non-circus colours. Black adds a lot of zing to light brights (which is why I used it as the sashing on that quilt I made her last year).
The limey mozzie net made me squee out loud when I saw it, I swear, and I am so not a squeeing kind of gal. Instant vision of it as a flowery fairy princessy canopy. I love the fairy princess stuff, just not with the relentless frouffy PINK, you know? It’s usually such an objectionably BLEH pink too, like that chalky shit people drink for heartburn or the stuff you clean dentures in. Ick.
So anyway, since I bought the mozzie net I’ve been nursing this little vision of a bower all done in clean brights, and buying bits & pieces of adorable fabrics (most of which the pook absconds with as soon as we get home – “you did buy me a BANtet! Tank you vewy so much!” – so finding them again has been interesting heh). I’ve just been looking at the paint chips I picked up today, wondering if the landlord could find a pale lemon even slightly objectionable.
I’ll take a couple of pics of the cot & the fabrics etc & put them up in a bit.
By sion, on March 24th, 2006%
(originally posted at WC PL)
I decided it’s ridiculous for the pook to have a boring halfassed bedroom. I’d been working in dribs & drabs, collecting stuff and trying to figure out how best to arrange things etc. Boofhead reclaiming his bed meant a major rethink, but as a result I’ve figured out how to use the cot [edit -crib to you weirdos] my grandmother made (for me I think, or possibly my cousin – almost an antique! ). I’m going to turn it into a toddler bed – the dropside is already off anyway, so I just need to remove the fittings. Dad cut me new slats for the base today (the originals are still under the house in Bris), and I just need to figure out what colour to paint it.spon
Things to take into consideration:
walls are that weird dirty-white colour landlords love, and there’s probably not a lot I can do about it. I will ask, but I’m not hopeful, so I may just have to scrub them & hang lots of stuff up.
There’s a really bright, limey green mosquito net for over the bed. The edges of the opening will be trimmed with something bright (probably a print with pink or yellow or purple background) and fake flowers/butterflies/ladybugs etc scattered over it.
Bed is next to the window, and no there’s nowhere else it can go. Curtains will be black and EITHER lime/lolly-pink stripes OR lime/lolly-pink/lavender/cerulean/lemon stripes (still cutting & deciding – and believe it or not, the many-coloured option is less blindingly kiddybright than just the pink & green). Coloured strips will have squares (or triangles, or diagonal strips, or something) of coordinated bright novelty fabrics inserted occasionally (because I am a cheapskate and only bought 1m of each colour, so joins must be made). Colour strips are 4.25″ wide, black strips are 1.75 wide. Bottom edge will be dagged into triangles if I’m not sick of screwing around by then.
bed skirt will match curtains, bedlinens ditto.
sheers for same window will be white net with a sparkly iridescent spot, edged in a pink & green stripe I knew I’d find a use for one day.
there’s a vintage dressing table and a bookcase also to be painted. There’s also one of those little round “petticoat” tables which I thought might look cute painted all funky, but that’s optional.
so. What colour you reckon the cotbed should be? I don’t want glossy proper paint, I was thinking more the sort of sponge-rubbed primitive look I got on that old dresser for her a couple of years ago. Mum suggested white, which could be nice, but a bit boring. I’ve been trying to figure out whether more muted versions of the curtain colours would look silly – like say I sponge the main frame white, but do the dowels all sugared-almond pink/green/purple/yellow/blue? Really subtle, maybe even lightly rub white over most of the colour & just leave hints at the joins etc. If I go that route, I could do something similar w the dresser by using colours on the door edges etc, and maybe painting something cutesy on the front.
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