With the festive season fast approaching, Trevor and I were keen to get a move on with Wren-Lee's room. Just like with our wedding and our house, Trevor and I have a pattern when we work together:
1. Vastly different ideas and design
2. We argue about the vastly different ideas and design
3. We attempt to compromise and mesh the ideas together
4. The mash-up doesn't work and we come up with a whole new idea.
5. We don't like the new idea and promptly throw it out leaving us back at beginning again
6. We come up with a totally different idea which we both like and then speed forward
Fortunately, this time around we didn't spend as much time on steps 2 and 3 as we usually do and managed to come up with the final scheme over two weeks. Trevor's designed a graphic that will be on the wall behind the cot based on this pic.
He's done fewer letters and gone for a totally different font which is better suited to a girl's room. The couple who did the room in the photo are both graphic designers and they painted every letter by hand. We'll be doing the same. Trevor says it's a labour of love. I told him I'm the one who has to go through labour, pfft.
Now, for the colour scheme, we've settled on a soft blue and pink combo. Neither of us likes pink girl's rooms and we wanted the room to be restful, beautiful and feminine. The bedroom gets the most amazing afternoon sunlight all year round and it helps to keep the cold aspect of the blue under control. These are the pics we chose the colours from.
Over the next 8-12 weeks, I'll be documenting the room make-over (lots of photos!). The plan of action for Phase 1 (painting) is to prep the walls over the next 3 days, do all the masking tape on Friday and start with the wall colour by Sunday. Trevor's in charge of figuring out how to project the lettering onto the wall so we can trace them out and my teeny tiny steady hands will be doing a lot of the fine work. The entire painting procedure will probably take two weeks to complete but it'll be worth the work when it's done.
I'm incredibly proud and grateful for the amount of effort Trevor's putting into this room. Usually it's the mom who takes the creative lead on the baby's room but I'm fortunate to have a baby daddy who enjoys being able to go back to his graphic design education and use it for something special. So, while he may not do dishes, he might be highly "allergic" to cleaning the house and he's slowly learning to enjoy grocery shopping, Trevor's love and talent will be made visible every time we look into Wren-Lee's bedroom.
