So in the last few months I have been pretty busy. When we first moved into our our house 10 years ago I chose colors for the kid's bedrooms with nary a clue for lighting and primer and such. I let my son pick the color for his room and I chose yellow for the second room which I hoped would become a girls room.
As time passed I realized that the green room was always going to be darker because of the storage room in the backyard shading it from direct light and the yellow room was always going to be very bright because it got full sun first thing in the morning and in the evening the light reflects off the house behind us pretty well. At first it was no big deal. We had our second baby, a girl, and she shared the green room with our oldest for a while and it worked great. When it was nap time it was nice and dark in there. And we used the bright room as computer/library room for a while which was great for reading and playing. Then we had another girl and another boy and we had to start shifting things around. I learned babies sleep better in darker rooms than brighter rooms. We dealt with it the best we could but the yellow room was always soooo much brighter than the green room. And now that we had girls for sure I really wished I could paint the rooms again so it matched our kids interests and styles and managed the different lighting better.
So a couple months ago my husband and I were discussing the bed situation in the boys room. Our second boy was outgrowing his little toddler bed and we eventually would need to fit 3 full size beds in the room. We decided on building bunkbeds for them. But I really wanted to paint before we did it since it was really the last chance I had to change the color for probably another 10 years. I wanted to pick a much brighter color this time to help what light that does come in make the room brighter. And while we were pulling out all the stuff why not do the girls room too? I wanted to pick a bolder darker color so when they closed their curtains the room would actually get dark enough to take a nap once in a while.
We had so much fun redesigning their rooms. The light pink became the accent color for the girls room and the green became the accent color for the boy's room.
We also had some scrap wood that I wanted to use to make a shelf that would fit behind the bathroom door. I had seen the idea once and loved it. My bathroom is pretty small so this was a real space saver:
We figured out the spacing by testing what products would go on which shelf.
We decided to add a back to it for more stability. I had fun being creative with the paint design. We used polyurethane to finish it.
