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Sweet Dreams…

August 26, 2007 //  by Paint It!

I just completed a mini makeover of my bedroom, Phase1. I recently posted some pics of 2 armoires I repainted for the umpteenth time for this room. Now I have finished putting a new base color paint on the walls and the crowning jewel of this room… the fennel stencil design on my headboard walls. I extended this design onto the adjacent walls, approximately 3′ to really give the feel that I am sleeping in a field of fennel. It was love at first sight for me, when I first came upon this wonderful design over at Rachael and Helen’s blog site, Design Inspiration, Planet Stencil Library. I actually bought this stencil for 2 upcoming jobs, but both have been delayed so long, that I just had to use it myself! Plans are also on hold for a commercial job that was scheduled in the Fall using this design. That job will resume after the first of the year, and I am just keeping my fingers crossed that this portion of the work will not fall under their budgetary ax.

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The stenciling is done all in white. I thinned my glaze and used a very light touch for the background fennel. The foreground fennel has a heavier application of the white, and the addition of some pearl highlights. This shows up better in the next few photos.

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Hopefully, the pearl highlighting is showing up on your screen. The base color for the walls in Benjamin Moore’s "Quiet Moments", which is softer than what it appears here. Very restful!

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Here’s the fennel next to one of the armoires I recently repainted.

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And one final shot, that shows the contrast of the lighter and darker fennel a little better. I left the remaining walls with just the base color, no fennel, so this would be the focus of the room.

Phase 2 of the mini makeover for this room will be to find a rug to put down for the Winter. I like the bare floor in the warmer months. I also would like to change out the duvet cover next Spring, using the fennel stencil and doing something to replicate this design by Amenity Bedding.

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  1. kat

    August 26, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Gorgeous! You do such terrific work!

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