Painting the Baby's Room

In wanting a gender neutral nursery I decided on a celestial theme. I searched pinterest and came across a number of nursery designs. I settled on this design for the colour scheme. I appreciated that Honey & Fitz laid out which paint colours they used and made a tutorial on how they did the starry ceiling. I ended up using a different strategy for the placement of stars on the ceiling but it was a helpful starting place.

BEFORE

Room was yellow before. Needed to prime first.

PRIMED

WALL PAINTING IN PROGRESS

(primer in the middle)

Benjamin Moore Mascarpone AF-20

WALL & CEILING PAINTED

ceiling painted light blue (matte finish)

Sherwin Williams Open Air SW 6491

Once painted we needed to figure out how to evenly space the 80 three inch stars we had purchased online. We decided on 5 stars running the length of the ceiling. In order to create the staggered look as shown by Honey & Fitz, every other row would alternate 8 then 7 stars across the width of the ceiling.

After considering many options we chose soft, light kitchen twine and painter's tape to make our grid. This won out over laser levels since you'd need many hands and would have to keep moving them. And won out over chalk since we didn't have to wash the ceiling afterwards and they weren't forgiving if you made a mistake.

Lining the points up with the twine was hard, but Andrew did a great job. Then we used a pan scraper to transfer the stars onto the ceiling but you could also use a credit card.

Thankfully it worked our perfectly having the stars around the light fixture and we didn't have to worry about cutting any.

While this project took more time than we thought it would I think it was worth it! I love the ceiling and love the combination of colours. Up next will be ordering blinds and making curtains (I like both options). T will be moving in here soon!