Hello friends! I wanted to share a little DIY project that I did last weekend in the nursery! I guess we can call this phase one of our Nursery reveal 😉 Which is actually perfect timing because today is the start of baby month ahhhh! I am 36 weeks today!? So wild that we only have a month (give or take) until we welcome our little one into the world!
When I first started thinking about designing the nursery I knew one thing for sure, and that was that I wanted to have an accent wall of some kind. Ideally it would make the most sense to start with the accent wall and design around it but since I am such a procrastinator we did things a littttle differently this go around.
I had my heart set on a wall paper, this one to be specific, but I quickly realized that it wasn’t really in the budget, nor did I want to spend that much when I knew I could figure something else out that would make just as big of an impression. I was only planning on doing one wall and couldn’t justify spending $500+ on it AND on top of that having to install the wallpaper myself. Not a chance. Being a kid once myself, I know that our little guys is going to want to change up his room at some point so I didn’t want to go too crazy.
Which is where the wall stencil comes into play! I searched high and low to find a stencil that I would just fall in love with and while I found quite a few that I really liked, none of them compared to the one I ended up going with. It was simple but bold all at the same time and it was exactly what I was looking for, and the price was right lol. For anyone searching for a great safari theme wall stencil I will link the one I used plus a couple other good ones I found below, along with some of my favorites that can be used in other rooms in your house! Who knows, this may not be the last accent wall I do!
Moral of the story before we get started is that a wall stencil will give you the same impression of wallpaper for 1/8th of the price (or less). When I shared the final product with everyone over on my Instagram, I had SO many people mistake it for wallpaper before they read the caption, I think that means it came out pretty good, right?!
2 Comments
Olivia
Hey! I ordered the stencil and I’m going to order the paint. I’m wondering what line you chose: Ben, regal or aura. Also what finish did you choose on the paint? Did you do 1 or 2 coats !!
Steph Read
Hi Olivia, I am so sorry for my late reply! But I used Ben regal in eggshell and I just did one coat + any touch ups that were needed!