Alice in Wonderland

I finally was able to complete a most exciting project for a long time client of mine, in her daughters' secondary playroom. They were debating on either an Alice in Wonderland theme, or a Wizard of Oz theme. Oz is pretty dear to me, my parents decorated my room in the 70's with an Oz theme, so I had some great ideas for how to design a room with that theme, but Alice in Wonderland is so amazing too! And with Tim Burton's version of the movie coming out earlier this year, and seeing all of the amazing set designs and crazy artwork, there is a lot to work with there as well. They ended up choosing Alice, and here is what I did. I took photos in stages so you can see the process.

Now the only thing I need to know is when they are going to adopt me? Their upstairs playroom/loft is one of my favorites as well.

Black and White and Hot Pink all over!!!

What's Black and White and Hot Pink all over? Exactly, not the newspaper. These adorable rooms! Quite sassy for the most descerning tastes in room decor, for nurseries to teen rooms. What girl doesn't like a little hot pink to brighten things up?

In this room we wanted to do a "paris" theme, that she can grow up with. Dresses and ballerina tutu's, purses and perfume bottles, and I adorned it with charms, bows, lace, pearls and "diamonds". The tulle coming off the painted dress form above the window acts as draperies, all for show as the window has shutters, but needed to be dressed up.

This teenager wanted her room done in a simpler fashion, with her name curved over her bed against the hot pink walls. Simple, straightforward, and packs a punch! The wall makes quite an impact now.

Here I am painting the Zebra striped border for my lifelong friends daughter's room. We updated her room from a light pink and sage green floral topiary tree theme (adorable and very hard to paint over for me! But she needed an update, and hey, it's just paint!). Jordyn's new room leaves room up above the Zebra border for her mom's immense Barbie collection (all in boxes and amazing!) to be hung above on the white wall. We painted the 10" hot pink stripes with a black 1" pinstripe, leaving an 8" white stripe at all. I also painted little crowns on the edges of her name above the bed, and on the dresser. Fabulous.

In this nursery we designed the monogram for Maycie above the crib and created a floral border copying flowers, leaves and scrolls from the fabric used in the custom bedding. The quote painted above the closet was chosen by mommy, and we added little details in the corners of the room as well to bring the floral design around the room.

Pink and Brown

Pink and Brown is the hot color combination in little girls rooms right now as you probably know already. Trends in clothing tend to mirror what is happening in interior spaces as well, and everything is beyond cute right now! The nurseries above were given that special something with very fancy paintings for very lucky little ladies.

This room was painted this deep pink color and then I added the lighter pink stripes and chocolate brown pinstripes, and created a chair rail with a floral border taken from the flowers used in the custom bedding.

This baby boutique was painted with pinks and blues set off by chocolate brown in the stripes and the large logo above the cash wrap. Abbie Rose is located in Aliso Viejo on Aliso Creek, their website and other contact information is here: Abbie Rose They have the cutest stuff in the store!

This nursery was painted with a simple circle design and the baby's monogram, the idea was taken from the bedding, a common place to start finding ideas and inspiration for your mural. A side note, this lucky client won a gift certificate at her daughter's school Silent Auction so the mural was free! If you have an even coming up I always will donate a gift certificate, let me know and I will put one together for your event!

Again, the bedding was the inspiration for this mural, I took the flowers from the bedding and created a chair rail between the brown and the pink, and then created a plaque of sorts with the baby's monogram.

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Rooms fit for a Princess

These little girls live in style! Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and the rest of those girls have nothin' on my petite clients.

This Fairy Princess mural was all 4 walls, lots and lots of details. I took ideas from vintage fairy prints and used "flower fairies" in the mural, with their matching flowers. My other inspiration for this mural came from a set of books I had as a little girl, by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James, the "Serendipity Books". GREAT trees and bunnies!

This playroom was designed as a loft from a previously open upstairs space. The sisters have each their own window and crown to look down upon us common folk from. Their mom told me that many play dates have ended with friends of the girls screaming and crying because they didn't want to leave the castle!