January 28, 2012

One of the big moves that will happen when Carson is born is the multiple changing of bedrooms. Keric will move into Cameron's room, Carson will have Keric's room, and Cameron will move down to the new bedroom down in the basement.

I am not sure how thrilled Cameron is about his move because he doesn't say much about it, but I get the idea he is a little nervous about it. Chris and I have tried to involve him in the move and get him excited about his new room by having him help decorate it. This may or may not have been a great idea, but he seemed excited about the possibilities of paint colors and "themes" for his room.

Right off the bat Cameron was insistent on having a blue room! No other color was going to do. We went to Home Depot so he could look at paint swatches, but the only ones he brought home were blue. They ranged from Navy blue to a Turquoise blue. To say I was frustrated would be an understatement. We tried to explain to him that a bedroom down in the basement would look BLACK with such dark colors, and that the Turquoise would just plain be a disaster.

We went back and forth with him for weeks, but he wasn't going to budge.

Well now we are down to the wire, and his room NEEDS to be painted. When Chris brought them home last night we sat down again to discuss his room. I finally decided to suggest the route my Mom often takes when she decorates rooms. She picks the accessories first, and the paint last. So I suggested we go into SLC and look for a bedspread.

So we did, and Cameron found a very NAVY blue bedspread that had really pretty grey/silver pinstripes and grey/silver sheets that matched. It was a bedspread I probably would have walked right past had I been picking it out myself, but in the end I really do like it and I'm glad we were able to find something that HE liked and that he picked out himself.

We decided to try and match the paint more to the sheets and pinstripes rather than the dark Navy of the bedspread. We went to Home Depot again and together found a color we could all agree on. I'm actually getting really excited about the finished product.

Chris has been down in the basement all day long painting and as expected, it is perfect and looks so pretty! The picture doesn't really do it justice, it hasn't fully dried yet, but I'm happy with it, and so is Cameron.

I guess in the end we all got what we wanted. Cameron got his dark Navy blue, and I got walls that were NOT blue! :) Yea!