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Written by Paula Clayton
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:10 |
Hello!
We seem to be on a tree run, of late. Which is kind of fun, they all end up with different moods in the painting and colors. This lot are in Lake Bluff, Hyde Park, Wilmette, and (for us) local: Evanston, Illinois.
I had posted a few months ago about the nurseries - so a bit of catch-up, too, in getting these pics up.
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A four-year old's room, and she just has a new baby sister who she loves! So we had come in pre-baby (a few months ago) to paint her new room (since the new baby has her old room), and Vicky called us back to ask if we could add a couple more fairies. Little sister, big sister. Cute, eh?
While we were there, we also flowered-up a cool play treehouse they'd bought at Wishes (http://www.wishestoywonderland.com/) (we painted Wishes' murals) (blog earlier here, we like them lots and lots).
 
Its neat! Its got winches and different levels & little places to hide stuff & wee buckets & furniture!
The treehouse is a cool place for fairies to come and have tea and play .... soooooo ... we remembered it with the next tree-room we did, when in the #1 brainstorming session we all decided we needed a teahouse,
 
... and there is a fairy in there sorting out the flower trimmings, with more zooming in along the wall, bringing more flowers.
The other family focused room of the tree mural painting epidemic was in Hyde Park. They figured that since the whole family spends a lot of together time in the living room ... it should be a cool place for everyone. They'd seen some of our trees on the website, here (yippee - happy website happenings!) and gave us a call.
The built-in bookshelf was a nice green to work in with the leaves, and all that real wood trim gave us some good rich colors to play off ...
 
Monkey - family favorite ... kids request,
 
And bunnies.
Thats the cool thing with murals, too - you can add your personal happy points to the scene. Everyone can slip in a little something that will make them smile every time they see it. It's your home, your walls, and its just paint we're using. So what do you want to see on your walls?
And guess what?
Just because its trees & nature stuff doesn't mean it has to look completely like a landscape scene or even keep in tree-realistic colors. We just painted a quick bathroom yesterday, and the colors took a sidestep into a more sophisticated realm.
The original color that this family had painted their bathroom was a slightly darker, cooler grey. They wanted to lighten, warm it up a bit, be a bit different, and throw in some purple. Most of this room is in a kind of dappled brushstroke, picking up the different tones of greys, creams & purples. It resolves into trees in 2 corners, only, with a bit of foliage at ground level, too.
All in all its pretty soft, relaxing, and warm. It picks up the colors from the stone floor, does the nature thing, beats a solid color for visitor-interest, but stays calm and sophisticate while its at it. We're happy! (Our client people are happy too - this is good!)
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