Nursery mural

We shamelessly copied this idea and most of the layout from these people's Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/branditressler/3621386639/ Not very creative of us, but I really loved their mural and it seemed better to try to replicate it than to make an original design from scratch.

First we painted the walls blue on top and white on bottom, then added the green hills. Tim scanned the images from the original storybooks, then assembled them in Adobe Illustrator. He then set up his laptop with a projector and traced everything out on the walls.

We both painted it in (with canine helpers, as shown in last photo in top row) using sample-size jars of custom-mixed interior paint from Home Depot. Finally, we used matte black paint markers to add the outlines and detail.

The process:

The finished mural: