Before and After: Holy Horse Mural!

I spent today with my friend Matt, helping him hang a horse mural in his daughter Erica's bedroom.  Remember "the Clients" from this post...

After doing their bathroom, we are now working on the eldest daughter's bedroom (on the right), indulging her love or horses and riding.  The girls' bedrooms are on the top floor of a bungalow style house, where the entire space is hugged by slanted ceilings.  She wanted to be surrounded by horses, and we certainly gave her that today!

This bedroom is a work in progress, but I thought you might like to see the mural.  Eight wallpaper panels installed on a slant.  It made for lots of laughs, some unmentionable words in the air, and a close resemblance to a game of twister to hang those panels.

Here is the newly painted room before we began.  While it doesn't show well, the color, by Behr, is one I took from the colors in the coat of  the gray-white horse.

Imagine the before of this 13 year-old's bedroom (because for the life of me I can't find the picture!).  Justin Beber posters taped on the walls, riding ribbons and trophy's, numerous other posters and pictures scattered along the walls, and in short, a bit of a cluttered space.  Before the mural went up, the full size bed seemed to dominate the room.

Now for the mural...

Believe it or not, the over sized image makes the room feel so much bigger, and the bed has seemed to shrink, making the overall space far more open.

Matt and I were completely psyched when the job was done.

I am in the process of  designing and crafting a window treatment and fabric "door" for the closet.  The room is coming together, but you'll have to stay tuned for the final tour.  I also can't wait to show you the transformation of the "hang-out space" (formerly the "playroom"), outside this bedroom door.

Talk to you soon,
Carol