Have I mentioned that I have the best family and friends a girl could ask for? I know that I frequently boast about my fabulous husband but perhaps I don’t mention enough where he got his fabulousness from. You see, not only did my amazing Mother-in-Law knit Erica a new cardigan but she’s also knitting one for Greer. AND, my similarly amazing Father-in-Law is currently upstairs with the aforementioned fabulous husband papering the girls’ bedroom while I faff around on the internet get on with the ironing.

Bob is really harbouring doubts about this paper. Some of you may remember my excited tweets from last Summer when we stayed in a gorgeous hotel in Brighton with the most beautiful wallpaper I had ever seen. After tweeting a photograph of it, my fantastic twitter friends identified it immediately as a £50-a-roll designer brand. Now I adored this wallpaper, but I didn’t £50-a-roll adore it if you catch my drift so I put it out of my mind and decided to forego it until we visited our local B&Q and found a very similar pattern.

At that point, this paper was supposed to be for our bedroom but before we got the chance to put it up we ended up moving out and handing our room over to the girls which left me with a dilemma. My new bedroom is completely white, very calm and I have slept better than ever since we moved in there. I loved the paper, but wasn’t convinced it would work in our new room so being the ever-loving mother that I am I agreed that we’d put it up for the girls.

It’s taken me six months to finally part with it and even now I’m trying to persuade Bob to move our room back. I don’t think he’s going to agree to it, but it’s suddenly becoming such a nice prospect to spend time in the girls’ room. I just hope it looks as amazing as I envisage…

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OK! Further to my last post asking for help picking paint for the girls’ bedroom I got some samples and painted them against the wallpaper.

My feeling is that the colour on the top left (dark cream/light coffee) is too dark for the paper and the white makes the paper look dirty. The colour on the bottom (buttercup) is just the wrong shade. That leaves the lilac on the left and the dusky pink on the right. I’m leaning towards the pink but I do like the lilac too.

The dark pink on the bottom? That’s the colour the bottom half of the room is just now. It was my choice and I absolutely loved it at first, but it’s such a small room that it’s overwhelmed by the pink.

What say you? My gosh, this interior designing malarkey is hard work isn’t it?

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OK I’m relying on you lovely ARTISTIC bunch to help me out a little here.

My girls share the smallest room you could imagine. It’s an L shape, with a built-in closet making up the missing square. The longest wall has just enough room for Greer’s cot and the head of Erica’s bed. The short wall has maybe a foot of space at the end of Erica’s bed. It is tiny and until yesterday was decorated in a very bright pink that was pretty but a little loud for a baby & toddler room.

I found this gorgeous wallpaper in B&Q the other day and I’ve bought a roll of it to do the biggest wall with the intention of painting the other walls white BUT after giving the walls a quick once-over yesterday I realised that white paint will make the wallpaper look dirty because it’s more of a cream colour.

SO! I come to you experienced people for help. To make it easier, I can paper the wall today and take photographs if that will help but I’d rather paint before I paper so I don’t risk damaging this gorgeous print. What colour would you paint the walls if this was your room? I’ve been thinking of either a baby pink (which risks looking like pepto-bismol) or a light grey (the wallpaper has metallic accents) but that could highlight the less-than-perfect walls.

Ideas..?

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