Making Progress..

We made a great deal of progress on Daniel's new bedroom this weekend, thank you to a few longer-than-usual naps and a great many thanks to "Little Einsteins". =D

I snuck away friday evening and spent about 30 minutes measuring the walls and drawing lines for my 2 chair rails. (I placed one at 36 inches from the floor and the second at 42 inches) This gave me a nice block of space for my chalkboard border.

Saturday we painted the wall above where the border would be Olympic paint Timeless Taupe(leftover from painting our den) and the wall below the border I painted a light blue (I used leftover paint from the playroom and added some white base paint to make the color much lighter).

After letting that dry overnight, I woke up early and used a roll of brown craft paper and masking tape to mark off the area for the chalk board border. (I didn't want to waste money on painters tape here because I was putting a chair rail over my line, it could be a little blurry/smudged).

Here is the room all taped and prepped.

Here is the border (I did one thick coat and removed the tape and border while it was still wet.)

As you can see, the edge is a little blurry, but once the chair rail is installed, we will be good to go.

My favorite little helper. =D

Here is the room, chair rail installed. Still needs finishing touches, but it is almost there! 

Working on ideas for the closet, if anyone has any ideas, feel free to pass them along!

Any ideas, or suggestions?

I am already loving the chalkboard.

It will be so easy to change the theme in Daniel's room, just by changing out the sheets, curtains

and drawing something different on the chalkboard....

I already have so many ideas..