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mikacat · Coach

Paint and window treatments recs for nursery

halleybird · Hermes

I like the print - it could be cute for a girl's room in a vintagey way. But I wouldn't do both the blinds and the wallpaper. I'd pick one. It looks like a pretty room! I like the shutters.

FashionPrincess · Hermes

Are you planning on painting over the wallpaper or the bottom half? I think I'd leave the walls alone and just change the window treatments to something like this:

I think the wallpaper is cute in a vintage-y way and almost has an aisan vibe to it.

Or if you do paint over the wallpaper then I'd leave the blinds. HTH!

Oh, and you have to post a pic when it's complete

MissMee · Kate Spade

I love that wallpaper! So cute, but I can see how it might get too busy after a while. If you end up ripping it down or painting over it, please (for me) either leave one wall w/ the paper, or cut out a big chunk and frame it. Just replace the blinds/shades w/ a solid.

Another idea: As much as I dislike borders, maybe you can slice the wallpaper so that it acts as a border around the ceiling and rip out all the stuff underneath (or just paint it instead of cutting it and ripping). Nail a little piece of wood trim at the bottom of the "border" to seperate it from the rest of the wall. Then you can leave your birdie blinds!

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Leave the wall paper and replace the window treatment. I think a nice sheer white window treatment would work well at opening it up and letting more light though.

-gd

hotcocoa · Kate Spade

i absolutely love that wallpaper!

if it were my room, i'd leave the bottom half of the walls white/cream or paint them a rich, but not too dark cocoa-y brown. i'd take the roman shades down and switch them to a solid or a coordinating print (i keep picturing a tiny polka dot print — maybe brown dots on white?). i love the shutters too. are you keeping those? they'll be great for blocking out some light at naptimes.

damn... i really love that wallpaper. but then again... i have a little thing for birdies.

ayo · Coach

yeah I think I like the idea of keeping the wallpaper and switching out the shades.

Sibeski · Dooney & Bourke

I have always, always been against wallpaper. BUT that is b.e.a.utiful! I'm not kidding, I love the wallpaper. I just had this major discussion/argument over the stuff with my husband, now I have to tell him I may have changed my mind

Lilykind · Hermes

I hate wallpaper but that paper is all kinds of beautiful. I'm with the other ladies, keep the wall paper and swap the shades for sheer white ones.

killa · Dooney & Bourke

I, too, loathe wallpaper. But that paper is sooooo pretty!

If you decide to take it down, please leave the blinds!

kittenheels · Coach

What lovely wallpaper! If it were me, I would keep it!

mikacat · Coach

okay-

here is the new update. Husband really wants to paint the wallpaper. (well actually, he doesn't want to do anything to the room) but wants to paint the wallpaper rather than cover the roman blinds. Which kind of makes me sad because the wallpaper is really growing on me. But we had to go to all these parenting classes for adopted babies and we learned chinese babies don't like a lot of stuff going on all over the nursery walls because they are used to plain walls in the orphanage.

so we bought pink paint from sears and are going to leave the chair rail and below the offwhite and leave the blinds and paint the wallpaper pink. this should happen on Sat and Sunday so I will post photos when we are done. We hope it looks good with the blinds because I would just like to leave them. I like the idea of framing a piece of the wallpaper.

I asked hubby about leaving a border at the top and he claimed it will be really hard to do. I will ask again. Some battles are just so hard to win.

the color is pixie dust.

Her crib is white and the bedding is pink and white and brown. I hope it all turns out and I will post pictures and ask for more ideas and help!

-- Edited by mikacat at 15:11, 2006-09-01