We finished painting Henry’s room and putting together his crib and dresser. So his room is starting to take shape. Pictures weren’t doing a great job showing the entire room, so here’s a video.
Henry’s future room has been making some dramatic changes in the past week.
Henry’s room started out as James’ office. However, we wanted a room for guests to stay in while visiting Henry, so the office got the boot. The first step was selling our desk, which we did on Craig’s List. Then, cleaning and painting ensued.
We chose a cheerful baby blue for the room plus, as we mentioned earlier, a chalkboard wall. The magnetic primer for the chalkboard wall smelled awful and the odors stayed in the house a good 24 hours after we finished painting.
We woke up early on Sunday planning to just tape off the room for afternoon painting, but we just couldn’t stop once we started. In what is likely one of the most productive mornings on record, we completely painted Henry’s room. I still need to finish up the chalkboard wall but here are some pictures from start to mostly finished.
Erin and I have decided to turn one wall of Henry’s room into a chalkboard. They make paint now that can turn any wall into a chalkboard or whiteboard. In addition we thought it would be fun if Henry could put magnets on his chalkboard and sure enough there’s a paint for that. A magnetic primer will be the base coat and then we’ll put the chalkboard paint on top of that. We’ll update you soon on whether it works.
He'll know the difference between which wall to write on right?
Like Henry's personality, his wall will be highly attractive.
