painting the baby’s room

ha!  that’s a surprising title, isn’t it?  well, it’s also a wee bit misleading.  see, the baby’s room will be what is now sort of the office.  i say “sort of” because ever since we both got laptops we hardly ever spend any time in that room, so it’s the perfect room to change into a baby’s room.  it’s painted a deep, orangey red color and i’m thinking of leaving it that way.  partially because i have no interest in a pastel-colored room, and partly because i have no interest in painting over that deep orangey-red color pretty much ever.  i’m thinking that with the addition of some cute black and white accents, maybe a pop of turquoise here and there… it will be perfect!  BUT… up until this weekend, the door trim and the closet doors were still their original dark brown stained wood color.  All of the rest of the room trim and the ceiling were white, but those other pieces had never been painted and I thought that painting them white would make the room more baby-ish.  not so baby-ish that if we don’t have someone to sleep in that room for a year or more it will depress me to walk by it every day, but baby-ish enough that I’ll be able to transform it quickly with some furniture rearranging and maybe a few wall decals when the time comes.  i don’t think i’ll want to be painting when i’ve got a newborn in the house (yuck, fumes!), SO…. since we were finishing painting the fireplace surround in the living room anyway, I figured I’d just tack on those little bits of the office.  It’s done (well, okay, except for the door to the room but that’s an unneccessarily long story) and looks great!  Hooray!