For today’s “Inspiration”, I am continuing my series on the Sleek and Stylish house.  As I promised last week, today I am sharing the kids’ rooms.  Above is the little boy’s room.   I love the white board and batten paired with the orange.  And how fun is that swinging chair?

Above is the girl’s room.  I love the pink, black, and white color scheme.  I think this room is fun yet sophisticated enough to take a young girl into the teen years.  I am loving the bedside lights.  And I am head over heels in love with the black and white striped bedside table.  I think I’m going to have to find something in my house to paint like that.  Next week I’ll share pictures of the kids’ playroom.  You won’t want to miss that one!  Have a great weekend everyone!

      No, not that kind of stripper.  I  mean the chemical kind.  I want to strip our mismatched nightstands so I can stain them to match our dresser, but I don’t want to do it in the house.  As it is still the middle of Winter and although it is unseasonably warm, it is not warm enough to do this whole process outside, I am putting the rest of the master bedroom redo (see, I repainted the wall behind the bed) on hold until Spring.

     I have done more than my fair share of decorative wall treatments in my day.  I was queen of sponge painting back in the day.  When Ralph Lauren came out with the denim wall treatment I had to try that out on my kids’ bedroom walls.  I have also stenciled, painted stripes, squares, circles, polka dots and free-handed tree branches with  blossoms.  I love paint and I am always excited to try something new.  Today, I wanted to try a linen/grasscloth look on the wall behind the bed in my bedroom (this is where the good idea goes bad).  I figured the linen look wasn’t that far off the denim look (which I was successful at even as a complete novice).  I have a linen brush that I purchased at Home Depot years back when they still carried Ralph Lauren products.  I had the glaze mixed and ready to go.  I followed the instructions, but my project didn’t turn out right.  I think maybe I used too many different tints of glaze and didn’t let each coat dry completely between coats.  Anyway, I ended up with cock-eyed stripes instead of beautiful linen or grasscloth look wallpaper.  So, what am I going to do now?  I don’t know.  I will paint over the faux linen mess with some of the leftover wall color for now.  Maybe it will stay that way until I can afford the original plan for the wall, brick.  Guess I’ll have to chalk this one up to “lessons learned the hard way”.  Thank goodness it’s easy to get a do-over with paint!  Hope you are heaving a better weekend than me

      This week’s “Inspiration” theme is bedrooms.  The bedrooms featured today are from Richmond Homes.  They are from the same model home.  This home was open for touring in 2011 and was just a stone’s throw from the “Up” House.  Don’t you just love the bold yet classic look of the room above?  I am loving the neutrals with that pop of red.

      This room was just across the hall.  It is a little more feminine and while it has the same palette, this room is a bit more subdued.  The pops of red are more dainty.  If you’re trying to get your home to flow more smoothly from one room to the next, try using the same colors throughout but vary the dominant color in each room.  Play around with your house, have fun with it.  It is your canvas to paint a picture of who you are.

     Christmas shopping, wrapping, baking, decorating, partying, and everything else that goes with the season has kept me from my weekly “Inspiration”.  I am ready to get back on track now though so this week I am featuring one of the bedrooms from the “Up” House.  This is “Jack’s” room. 

      This room is one of the few deviations from the “Up” movie.  Designer LaNae Bangerter stayed with the Disney theme and made a perfect replica of Andy’s room from Toy Story. 

      I wish I had a better picture.  The room was roped off so I couldn’t get any closer and my good camera was broken.  I had to make do with my phone camera but you can see all the toys all lined up to watch Buzz prove he can fly.  Too cute, right?    Every little nook and cranny of this house was intended to make you smile, just gotta love that.