Baby Jacob's Room

The countdown is on to Baby D's arrival. We decided on a name, Jacob Michael. My due date it quickly approaching on March 14th. We will update the blog with info as we know it!

Baby Jacob's room is finally complete! It took over a month and lots of patience and help but it's finally finished! Thanks Norm and Sue for providing the paint and all the extra's for the room. Thanks also for your help with the painting and chair rail!

There were so many steps that it's hard to keep track of it all! But here is a quick run-down:

Sand the trim

Wipe the trim

Tape the trim

Paint the trim twice

Measure and mark how high we wanted the stripes to go

Paint the top part (khaki)

Paint the bottom part (light blue)

Allow the paint to dry for a week

Measure, mark, and tape off for the stripes

Use a credit card to really get the tape down so hopefully the paint doesn't bleed under

Paint the stripes (dark blue)

Paint the stripes

Paint the stripes

Paint the stripes (that's right, 4 coats!)

Take the tape off very carefully (yeah, it worked!)

Attempt to sand the chalkboard wall (definitely not the best idea we've had!)

Decide to plaster the wall...takes 2 times to get it good enough (by now we don't care!)

Sand the plaster

Prime the chalkboard wall

Paint the chalkboard wall (3 coats, 3 days)

Cure the chalkboard wall (basically covering the thing in chalk)

Get the chair rail (left Lowe's with it sticking out the back tied with Megan's necklace)

Paint the chair rail

Cut the chair rail (repeat many times)

Put up the chair rail

Fill the nail holes and such

Do the touch-up painting to the room

AHHHH, we are finally done. I'm not so sure we will take on a project like this in the future again but now that it's completely finished we love it!

Here are a few pictures of the room from before to after! Megan loves playing in there of course. She still sadly asks about her yellow paint that we covered up with the chalkboard wall. Fortunately she enjoys the chalkboard too much to get upset!