The Katie Khronicle: Paint Fumes

Its baby time! This weekend I tackled the nursery while Adam had two-a-days practices with the WSU volleyball team. Since he is now working 1000hrs/week till mid November I thought I so something productive. On Saturday evening I tore down the wallpaper border in the room, which was a weird Noah's Ark themed muted nastiness. Then on Sunday I got spunky and decided to paint the room. Even though it is a girl we went with a blue room and one green accent wall. This was to compliment the nice wood work we have in the house and also to compliment the beach, key west/ island hula girl theme we are going for. Once its all put together I think it will be a great little girls room. Another reason we went with the blue and green is that these colors are exceptionally soothing for babies. Blue is a calming color, great for sleeping and green is said to promote self confidence.

After several hours of painting and not much lunch I will say the paint fumes were getting to me, I cleaned up the room and took care of all the paint, finally took a few minutes to rest and BAM it hit me I was high on paint fumes, hopefully the baby didnt get that much. Wow, I had no idea I was so sensitive to fumes and smells, apparantly pregnancy does make your body completely different.
Here is a look at the room, with the blue and green wall, I like the contrast against the woodwork.

This is the wall the mural (color by numbers attempt ) will be on, I am going to paint a palm tree coming up towards the closet doors and then a small beachwood sign under the tree with directions "beach 1 mi" and "Key West 1298mi" etc. So it should be cute and add a little originality to the room. Pics of my masterpiece...haha...will be up as soon as I get over my first dose of paint fumes. Maybe this evening, buy surely by this weekend.

The mural paint supplies...Got Paint?! Luckily I have a lot of Key West colors left from when I painted our adorondak chairs. But the canvas and materials are ready and waiting so that will make me do it sooner than later.