Of crayons and paints

Hi J. Judging by the time on this response. You must have been here while I was at your wings' game discussion. Great tip on the primer! I will do that. I'm sure that after the kid's room I'll do the hallways too. Sometime ago, my 3-year old had a pencil in his hand, and ran up and down the stairs. I've already tried the eraser on it, but there's still lots.

I'm at the west coast, so it's actually just half an hour before midnight right now. I was wondering about you last night. I also thought that you must have been still myLotting at the wee hours of the morning. Get some sleep. Now blue and maize, that's a wonderful color for a kid's room. Two or 3 walls blue, and the wall with the window will be the yellow one.

I think we just missed each other..I just came back from the other one..my notifiers are popping up in my messenger, I have concluded bounce, that you don't sleep any more than I do...I dont know what time it is at your house, but its almost 2 am here. The primer is a good tip..one small room with fresh dry wall soaked up like 3 gallons of expensive primer before the drywaller told me that little secret...Now I buy the walmart brand cheap white enamel for primer every time..If you go real dark though it seems t be best to get your primer tinted alittle with your color we found that out when we painted my son the Michigan fans room dark blue and maize.

Oops! Thanks for the tip of washing the walls. In my vision and planning of painting the walls, it never crossed my mind to wash the walls.

I will Hatley. I figured I'd start with my kid's room first. So that if I make any rookie mistake, it'll be in their room. And when I really get super ambitious, then I'd move on to the other parts of the house. I'm sorry that you only have white shades to stare at. Hopefully, you have windows or paintings and decorations that would break the monotone of the room.

Aha, I didn't notice the connection between these restaurant color schemes and the hunger!:D But if such colors make you people hungry, you can try some light blue and spring green colors, they relate to grass and blue sky, just like this Windows desktop wallpaper.

and reds too - its a "proven fact" that those colors are associated with hunger. Look at the color schemes in McDonalds, Burger King, Arby's, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A, Sonic, Long Johns (ok, so now we have some blue... but you get the picture, right?) =)

Hi biomechanoid. Yellow and orange? If it were my room, I'd always feel hungry. Somehow I always associate yellow and orange to food and restaurants. But that's just me. Thanks

Thanks thea, I am also leaning towards darker colors. So, that when it gets dirty, it wouldn't show too much.

Well, you see... my Mom once painted my bedroom basically the color my daughter's is now - but you see, I hated pink! Resented it... I was kind of a tomboy for awhile or tomgirl or whatever the word is that I need to put there. I had that room from when I was 4 to 8. Hated going in there... never got used to it. So now I get to pick on my mom for it. She did make it up to me when I was 12 or so. I painted my room lime green... and took bright orange paint and a really pretty blue paint and wrote and doodled all over my walls. Talk about the coolest room EVER! But anyway - my Jossy's 3 and I think your little one is going to surprise you. She has dreaded wood panneling in her room and I kept saying that her room looked kind of drab... we had just bought the house. So TJ, Jos and I were at Walmart for something and we walked past the paint swatches and Jos said "MOM! Look at all the colors! I want to look at them!" So we went looking at colors. She started grabbing them at random like any other kid would and she just stopped, looked at me... basically like she had just seen a ghost, I was terrified - but she was ok, don't worry she said "Mom... the walls in my room MUST be this color! I insist it!" Well... I"m sorry, but when a 3 year old says something like that... you kind of gotta go with it. So I painted her room one weekend while she was away at a sleepover and she came home, saw her room and said "MOM! You really made it happen! You did it! Just like I asked!" And she had to call, oh, at least 1/2 a dozen people and tell them that her room was pink just like she showed Mommy!

Very cool story! Makes me want to bring my little one to Walmart too! But I'm sure he and his brother will just grab me to the candy isle or to where the Wii games are. I think girls are more advanced, or matured compared to boys, like that.

Thanks for the tip! I wouldn't like it if they resented me just because I wanted to paint their room the color of my favorite hockey or football team! Yes, the youngest is 3. So, I may just bring him to pick swatches at Home Depot. But I doubt it if he would understand that it'll be the color of his room. Anyway, by the time he starts hating the color, it might just be time to repaint it again!

I got a 9-year old and a 3-year old. Both boys. And I do live like a couple of blocks away from Home Depot. Maybe I will bring them in one day so they can pick color swatches. Thanks cher913.

I might just do that! I might just let them draw whatever they like on the walls, a day or two before I paint it. Thanks.