Jail Cell Nursery

Our life the past few days has consisted of Joel painting the baby room and me cheering him on. I will start by saying that I am NOT a decorator. I wish I was better at it. Anyway...I had the great idea for a blue and brown baby nursery. The colors were not the problem, it was what I did with the colors that created a jail cell for poor little Jackson. :)

For whatever reason I thought it sounded like a good idea to paint the whole room aqua and make the brown stripes only 3 inches thick and 12 inches apart (Note to self: when painting stripes, make darn sure the width of each stripe is the same). So my amazing husband excitedly got out the paint on Sunday and diligently started this tedious job. About 15 hours of hard work went into these perfectly taped and caulked lines only to find that we really did have a cage for a baby nursery. We thought about adding stupid animals to go between the stripes, but that idea lasted about a second. Needless to say, Joel was not very happy with me when I made him paint a solid aqua wall over the stripes that he spent his whole Sunday and two week nights painting. So, here are the pics of before and after the jail cell went down. Oh and if your wondering why we didnt just salvage the stripes and make the brown thicker-well anyone who has ever painted stripes before knows that if you do that the dimensions get comletely screwed up. What a mess!