nursery help needed!!

carmeng

We've bought everything for our little girl's room.  I wanted to have a mural painted on the wall and it was started yesterday - now I think it's too much.  What do you all think.

Imagine her wall colors a cotton candy pink, this is her crib and dresser

 This is her bedding and matching full length drape in same fabric (difference is her bed sheet is ivory and bed skirt is floral. :

This is her chandelier:

and accessories for over the dresser (top ledge):

and these mirrors:

so the dilema is the mural:

  I'm thinking it may be too much -I feel awrful that she already started and I'm changing my mind.  How can I make it work.  By the way, the mural goes on the opposite wall of where the crib is, so it won't be like this. It will be by a window where the drape will be.

Any advice is GREATLY appreciated! TIA!

MelleTX

If you are paying someone to do it, then let them finish, pay them and see if you like it. If not, paint over it.

If this is a friend or family member who is doing it for free, tell them now if you don't want it. They would hate to drop by a few weeks after baby is born and see you painted over it.

If the person painting it will never see it, then wait and see. If you do decide to paint over, snap a few pictures to send to the artist to keep.

carmeng

The girl painting it is my friend's daughter. She's a great artist but it's the first time doing this and I paid her. So she will see it. 

I'm thinking if I have her paint the leaves a darker pink rather than the gold, it coordinate better.  Any thoughts? 

 

kas80

I think the leaves being gold works better.  I think darker pink would be too much pink and start to look overly matchy matchy.

thomas2013

I would agree to leave the leaves gold, I think it wul go with the room well and to have them pink I think might be to much.

I don't think you are over doing it. Also the painting would goes with an older girls room as well.

ablou

kas80:

I think the leaves being gold works better.  I think darker pink would be too much pink and start to look overly matchy matchy.

This.  You want to hold back on the pink from here on out.  You don't want to walk into her room and the first thing you think is "pink." You want to portray an emotion or a sentiment or a state of being.  I think the mural is beautiful with the gold letters on the green walll.

carmeng

ablou:

kas80:

I think the leaves being gold works better.  I think darker pink would be too much pink and start to look overly matchy matchy.

This.  You want to hold back on the pink from here on out.  You don't want to walk into her room and the first thing you think is "pink." You want to portray an emotion or a sentiment or a state of being.  I think the mural is beautiful with the gold letters on the green walll.

Thanks! Her walls aren't green though, her whole room is a very light pink.

erinms

I think the mural is beautiful and not too much.

I also think pink on pink is fantastic- but I LOVE pink.

Ironic because I have zero pink in my house with my DS.  God help us all if I have a girl one day.

Anyways, I think it sounds great, please post pics when it's done. 

alyssa7

I think you got some good advice, but wanted to tell you I think it looks great!

krisim

In general, I'm not a huge fan of murals, but the one you're having seems tasteful and not over-the-top.  I think it'll look fine in the room.   I'd let her finish...you can always change the room out in a year or two to a "big girl room" and change the mural at that time if you want to!

carmeng

thanks everyone! She's here finishing it up and I'm glad I'm sticking with it.

biblionerd

I think it looks great just the way it is. It's hard for me to exactly picture where you're talking about it going/what it's near/etc. with a lot of separate pics, but I'd let her finish and leave it. If you hate it, just wait until she's done, take pics of the whole room and show us, and I'm sure you'll get a ton more answers that it's great.

jsugrin

I think that it looks amazing.  If you want to tone it down a bit then instead of pink flowers maybe makes those another color.  Also If you find the flowers to be too much after it's done I think a wonderful idea would be to take the foundation of the "branches" and "hang" pics of each of your parents and siblings ect and make it into a family tree.  It's a concept I have desperately wanted to do for my own kids but we had major in law issues and I really didn't want pics of them all over my walls to look at all the time.

If the pink gets to be too much what about painting one wall a chocolate brown, or an incredible cream color with blush undertones?