The Nursery

Here is a glimpse of our nursery project! Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to paint a Suzy's Zoo mural on the wall of my baby's room. I collected various pictures from calenders and greeting cards over the years to choose from when the time came. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun too! We are pleased at how it turned out, especially since I don't consider myself an artistic person. I went into this thinking that we may need to paint over the whole thing if I botched it, but thankfully there was no need!

Paintng the walls and background. Jarom, the love of my life, painted this for me while I busied myself elsewhere.

Blue skies and green grass

Tracing the mural. I used an overhead projector to get the images up on the wall. The mural is on two walls so I had to move the image to refit the it on the second wall and over the closet doors. This of course changed the size of things and the position I wanted them to be at so I had to freehand a few little parts.

I discovered that I needed a white base coat since the paint was too thin and the background color showed through.

Doing the detail work took MUCH longer than I anticipated.

Jarom put up a white picked fence made of the slats of old blinds. Very creative my love!


Here is the finished room!




PHEW!