A Look At the Kids Rooms

For the past 6 months or so, we've had an artist working in our home painting murals in each of the kids' rooms. She has pretty much become part of the family, and we see her several times a week. So far, Jenny has painted a beautiful mural in the downstairs bathroom (I'll post pictures of that later), and in Ian, Elena and Kayla's room. Each room has a different "theme" and the murals are just beautiful!!

Kayla & Emma's room is a mix of Africa & Asia. On Kayla's side is a beautiful mural of Africa, shown below. It's completed, and Jenny's going to start working on Emma's wall, which will be Asia. I've been working with her on the layout of different elements from China, and it's going to be BEAUTFUL!!
'Kayla's wall.. an African safari
Jenny painted some monkeys, since they are Emma's favorite animal.
Emma with the cheetah cubs
Emma's wall.. where Asia will be.

Moving on to Ian's room, he has a camping/outdoors style. Jenny painted a large campfire, bears and racoons and made his room look like you're outdoors. On his other wall, he has a rockwall set up, so she painted it to make it look like a waterfall.
View of Ian's room
Camping Mural
Waterfall/ Rockwall

Elena and Esther share a room, and there's is a bit more simple. It combines some Chinese and old world elements. On two of their walls are painted the Chinese characters for "Mama Hao," which was Esther's favorite song when she came home. Then (it might be hard to see in the photos) but randomly on the four walls, it looks like brick is coming through the walls, to make it kind of feel "old worldish," I guess you could say, for lack of a better word!
View of Elena's bunkbed
Chinese characters for Mama Hao
Sleeping Esther & some of the brick

And my room is still a work in progress. It was (up until about two weeks ago) painted a bright pink color, but now just one wall is pink and the rest are tan. It's not finished yet, because we're going to put a wash on the walls to give it more character and make it blend more. The pink will also go darker!



I'll try to get some pictures of the bathroom up soon, because it too, is beautiful!!