mgbp #4: nursery walls

our nursery used to be our office.  we’d painted it this bold red color with bright white trim and it felt cozy in this small room.  when we decided to switch it over to a nursery, the thought of painting over the red seemed overwhelming, so… we decided to work with it!  i took some fabrics in to the room, i noticed right away how nicely this fabric went with the walls.  very observant readers might remember that this fabric also featured heavily in the car quilt and, because it looked so nice in the room, it was also a main fabric in our adoption quilt, but i also decided to use it as inspiration for the walls.

that’s not paint–that’s fabric!  i used this tutorial and cut out fabric shapes, soaked them in a solution of water and cornstarch, and then just stuck them on the walls and… they stayed up!

here you can see them again, above the crib.  (the mobile was commissioned from local artist jane fasse.)  i’m finding that this room is very challenging to photograph (there’s only one window and, well, the walls are red!), but if enough people ask, i’ll try to take a picture of the room as a whole to post here.