Painting April's Room

 *This actually happened over spring break back in March*

Posting about this has been overlooked for a few months now! Back in March April asked if she could paint her room. I said sure! The whole house pretty much needs a repaint anyway, and this is one of the rooms that hadn't been painted since we moved in almost 16 years ago. She also wanted to do a fun design, and we let her do that too.

April made plans and picked colors (with okay/input from us). We went to Bi-mart and a really nice lady mixed all these colors for us. She didn't even get annoyed that we had so many to mix. Actually, she wanted us to come back and show her a picture of the results. I still need to do that!

See the old color on the wall in the picture below. It's a tannish/grayish color. Our whole house interior was painted in this color when we bought the house. She opted for a very light green color as the base coat. It's hard to tell from the pictures, but it's so much more cheery.

It felt so good to cover up those old dirty tannish walls! And, it turned out so cool. 

This is not her original room (it's technically our computer room). Since she had moved out for college, but ended up coming back at Christmas time and staying home because it was all online, she was wanting to freshen up the walls. All her pictures and wall hangings are still in her room at Grandma's (where she'll head back to in the fall), so she was so glad to have something fun on her walls again! She did an excellent job. I only helped with the base color, she did all the lines. Now she has more pictures and decorations up too.

Oh, and while she was at it she painted a few pots for her plants with the same color scheme. 

Painting is a lot of fun and a lot of work!