Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Weekend Warriors

As mentioned previously, the tail end of vacation #1 was spent painting my brother in law's new house. While the nightmares of painting with my husband the first time came flooding back, I begrudgingly picked up a paintbrush and hopped to it. 

To my surprise, it was fun. No catastrophes. This is quite the opposite of the first time Mike and i painted together... I will spare the details but suffice it to say it was no adventure!

Painting my brother in law's house inspired Mike and I to give painting together another go and we decided to redecorate our guest bedroom. When we moved in we decided to leave it alone, and put up a hodge podge of pictures of us with family and friends around the room. No picture frame matched, and there was no order to the pictures display. I got a twitch every time I walked by the room. 

Mike and I transformed to weekend warriors. We decided to theme the room around our travel's together and display some of our favorite pictures taken on our travels. Here's the result...



First we painted the chocolate brown and let it dry. Then we taped off the our design (which I may add, was my idea!)



Then we painted.....






and waited....



peeled back the tape and added some frames... (I may also add that I went along the outside of the blue with brown with the worlds smallest detail brush to make it perfectly straight!)



Then we added a canvas antique map to plot out our travels....




and this is our wall in progress... as we travel we will add more pictures. As you can see, the pictures are hard to see, so I will add them here for your viewing enjoyment ;)





















2 comments:

Jessica said...

It looks really good Jen! You better save some paining energy because I will need it when we get a house!! :)

Shannon said...

Paint job is great (I've been getting the itch to paint but don't tell Rick!) but I LOVE your photos. Those are fabulous!