As posted earlier, I was going to try and create a stenciled effect in Lucy’s new room using DIY Wall Decals after browsing on Etsy and finding some very inspiring, but very expensive premade designs to buy. The original idea was to actually stencil or free hand draw the design like I did in her original room and paint it in with white paint, but in an effort to make things simpler Jason found a great link suggesting the use of contact paper. So off to target we went and picked up some regular white contact paper (also, make sure you call Target to make sure they have it before you go- only one Target (the giant one) had it around us). They even had “stainless steel” contact paper which was intriguing, but we passed on the urge to contact paper all our appliances! How much contact paper would that take?? That would probably look tacky though- anyone tried? Anyone tried the chalk board contact paper??
Anyway, it took me about 2-2.5 hrs. from start to finish to complete the design on two walls of her room. I will probably repeat the design under her second window later too. The pictures are below if you’d like to look. Here’s how I did it:
