The Thomas': Jade's room.....

Monday, 3 March 2014

Jade's room.....

This "project" took place from 23rd August until about 5th November... and it would have been blogged in this order - if I wasn't so out of whack with the blog.... so.... here's the entire story.....

Jade wanted something in her room - her suggestions were "Monster High" etc....

We decided to go with a "theme" that she could grow with... so rather than characters - we opted for a colourful "disco" theme....

First Step... find 3 colours that went well together...

(we didn't want it being completely pink - although Jade was all for that)

I'm good with this colour selection....

Whilst at Bunnings getting paint - we found these LED light bulbs that changed colour (you can also set them to plain white)

The kids loved them....

(though, since this - Blake has gone back to a plain white bulb as it had to be "turned" to white whenever you'd turn the light on - there was no complete "set" feature.... Jade's one is in the second half of her room - so she only turns that light on when she's wanting it different colours - which - isn't very often.....

(so, hindsight.... a bit of a fail)

Jade decided that she wanted to help me paint her room.... (this made the first wall use nearly twice as much paint as was necessary - and I had to go back and get some more to complete the other wall....)

Getting there... can still see patches...

mostly done.....

(and 99% on my own... 1% Jade)

I then spent my Friday night sitting on the bed making Jade's new bookshelf....

(I was banished from the lounge where Rob and the kids were watching movies)

I then put the backing sheets into the shelves to work out where all of the squares were - then worked out what colour each section had to be painted so that the one colour did not touch itself at any point.... simple process... though, when putting them into the shelves after they'd dried - I had to remember what went where....

Ta-Daaaaah!

(I was so happy with how this turned out....)

I got online and found this....

Jade's bed got moved into Blake's room while I was busy painting her room... so for a few nights they were a little squished.... (definitely not the same size as Jade's room!)

Drew came down to help me paint Jade's room... we figured it would probably take two days to do... but we'd finished it by the end of the day...

We gave it a few days to air out before even attempting to move Jade back in....

I had Rob cut me a selection of stars in silver and gold vinyl - so that we could decorate Jade's walls....

We also cut her name out to stick above where her desk was going to go....

(This was way harder than it looked like it was going to be... cause we couldn't use the usual "sticker transfer" system as it would have pulled the paint off the wall)