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Ryan's newly painted room!

Just over a week ago I posted about painting Ryan’s room and I had selected three possible paint samples to try out: Truly Olive, Red Delicious and Steel Blue. At the time, I was leaning toward truly olive, but ended up making a different decision.

I had to ask my husband’s opinion (ya know, because he lives here too) and the opinion of my brother-in-law because, after all, this is his house and we are renting from him.

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FINALLY painting Ryan's room

Soooo, when Ryan was like 5 months old (?) I ripped down the hideous wallpaper in his room. I had big plans for painting and decorating!

Ugly Wallpaper:

But there was all this glue residue left on the walls and it would NOT come off by any normal methods of cleaning and scraping. I bought that “diff” stuff from the paint aisle… you spray it on, let it sit for 10 minutes, then sponge

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Nursery Makeover--help!

Oh my, what a project. Before Ryan was born (and until he was about a month old) we lived in a one bedroom apartment. His crib and our bed shared the same space. Our “adult” and fancy decorations went to storage and it turned into a jungle covered with monkeys. (We won’t lie, we loved it too). But now we’re in a house… a 3 bedroom house… and Ryan has his own room. He doesn’t use it much yet because

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