That Feels Better

When we first moved into this house Gavin and Laney were both sad about leaving their rooms behind in Vegas. Gavin said that he missed his "Superman wall" and Laney said she missed her pink bedroom.We are renting this house but I just felt like I couldn't live here for a couple of years with out making it feel like "ours" and I wanted the kids to feel like they have a space that belongs to them. Thank goodness that paint is relatively cheap. This room started out a horrible beige color. Not that beige is bad...but in this room it made it feel old and like a dirty dungeon. Laney's room is the only room with ducts on the ceiling. Beige coupled with ducts made for a very unattractive space. This room also has a mystery door. Not that it is a mystery to us...(it goes to our storage room) but it did tend to add a little creep factor. But if you paint a strange door pink and blue it makes it not so "this is what scary movies are made of."

The trees painted on the walls are Laney's favorite feature. She waited somewhat impatiently for me to finish the pink tree. But now that it is done she tells me all the time that the pink tree is her favorite.