Baseball
Room Plan
It’s time to
hit a home run by using this plan to decorate your little guy’s
room. He’ll have everything from a baseball diamond
to a scoreboard; the only thing he’ll be missing is the hotdog
vendor!
Wall
Color
Semi-gloss latex is your best choice for painting his walls.
You certainly want him to leave his mark on the world, but
not necessarily on his walls, and this is the best type of
paint for wiping away handprints. Choose a white or
light blue and paint the entire room, leaving the trim white.
Baseball
Diamond Mural and Scoreboard
Once the background color is completely dry, paint a baseball
diamond on one of the walls using the simple WallNutz Baseball
Mural Kit pictured to the right.
On
a different wall than the mural, trace out a rectangle 4 feet
long by 3 feet high. The bottom of the rectangle should
be approximately 3 feet higher than the baseboard. Use
black chalkboard paint available at most craft stores to fill
in the rectangle. Write “Home” and below it “Away” on
the left side of the chalkboard and draw two rows of boxes
horizontally across the board to show the score in each inning.
Border
Now let’s make a border to wrap around the room. You
can use the Baseball Mini Mural kit, or find an open tennis
ball can or other round object of about the same size.
Trace
around the can with a pencil, then draw two concave lines
inside the ball to resemble a baseball’s stitching.
Move the can a couple inches diagonally down from the first
ball and repeat tracing. For the third ball, go diagonally
up from the first ball. Continue tracing in this random
pattern until you’ve wrapped around the room.
If
the room is white, trace around the balls using a black Sharpie
permanent marker with a medium point. You can again
place the tennis ball can on your traced circle for a perfect
edge. Using a red Sharpie marker, trace along the concave
lines to create the “stitches”.
If
your background is light blue, you will use white acrylic
craft paint (available at all craft stores and WalMart) to
fill in each circle. Before painting, trace over stitching
lines inside each ball with a red Sharpie marker. Now
paint the inside of each ball with white paint. Retrace
the stitching lines with the red Sharpie marker.
Window
treatments
This valance created using wooden bats will add a fun finishing
touch to the room and is sure to be a hit! You’ll need
to find a wooden bat or two depending on the number of windows
in the room. One bat decorates two windows.
Take
red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, black, and white
½” ribbon and cut into varying lengths between 6” and
9”. Stick the ribbons vertically with sides touching
to a strip of sticky backed Velcro that is as long as your
curtain rod. Then stick the opposite side of the Velcro
to the curtain rod. Stick the ribbons to the curtain
rod. Next, cut the bat(s) in half lengthwise.
(If you don’t have the equipment, find a carpenter to do this
for you.) Screw the flat side of the bats into curtain
rods covering the top of the ribbons. The ribbons should
hang down behind the bats.
Finishing
touches
- Replace
dresser drawer knobs with baseball shaped pulls. (Available
through WallNutz online
store.)
- Buy an unfinished pine coat rack from a craft store.
Paint the knobs white to look like balls, then paint two
red concave lines on the inside of the balls to resemble
stitching. Finish the coat rack by varnishing with
a clear finish.
- Hang team pennants around the room.
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