I’ve written a few times about my big project of adding more personality to Haiden and Piper’s bedroom with Disney Glidden Paint. My biggest challenge was figuring out a creative paint project for a girl and boy sharing a bedroom!

Before the specialized paint project, the entire room got a fresh coat of the very neutral Pawprint hue of Disney Glidden paint. My husband often gets exasperated at my gravitation toward neutral walls, and this time I certainly couldn’t blame him. Once the paint dried, I found that it ended up nearly exactly the same color as the previous shade!

On the upside, the room was small and easy to paint, and I definitely only had to use one coat! Plus the Disney Glidden paint covered up the marks and scuffs that just happen in a toddler’s bedroom.

Haiden and Piper have their beds on opposite sides of the bedroom, making it easy to do a creative paint project for each of them on the wall next to their toddler beds.

In my last Disney Glidden paint update I showed how I had taped off and painted a big vertical rectangle of Haiden’s wall Rally Blue from the Disney Glidden paint line.

After Piper saw Haiden’s blue wall, she started asking if someone was going to paint her wall pink. It seemed like a small job compared to what I needed to do to Haidens’ wall next, so I headed back to Walmart to pick up a quart of Butterfly Fly By from the Winnie the Pooh palette to do the same to Piper’s wall.

After both sides of the room had their blocks of color, I decided to tackle the jobs from easiest to most difficult. I’d bought Wall Candy Flutterflies butterfly wall decals during a sale a few months ago, and they were perfect to add some excitement to the pink painted panel on Piper’s wall.

With Piper’s wall done, I attacked Haiden’s wall. I taped out a 2-inch wide horizontal strip and three other strips going diagonally from one side of the blue panel to the other and painted the strips with  Magnificent Metallic Disney Glidden Paint tinted Glimmering Silver.

I knew as I was rolling the Disney Glidden specialty paint on that it was going to work perfectly. The directions for using Disney’s metallic paint were spot-on, and I had no problems with it. This close up picture shows how shiny and metal-like the metallic finish really is:

Once the paint had dried and the tape was removed, I added stickers from the WallCandy Arts Race Cars decals to make dashes through the roads. I added Stop and Go signs and a set of Disney Cars decals to complete the look.

Over the weekend, we had a little My Magic Room PJ Party to celebrate the big reveal of the bedroom. (Although we opted out of the “PJ” part of the party since none of the parents were up for a sleepover!).

We celebrated by putting together Disney Cars treat and favor bags and making Stoplight Brownies for a fun themed treat. I also served plenty of snacks and drinks for both the kids and adults!

Haiden and Piper were so proud of their new walls, and they were so excited to show the kids and adults who attended the party! I ended up being pretty proud of myself when everyone seemed impressed with my detailed painting job on Haiden’s roads!

Although I had made a super-fun racetrack to race cars down our steep stairs, and distributed plenty of cars for playing, the kids actually abandoned most of our planned activities to enjoy our (finally!) beautiful Minnesota spring weather. The kids played racing games, hauled and pushed sand in the sandbox and just soaked up the warm weather.

At the end of the party, I announced a $50 Walmart gift card giveaway, and made two attendees very happy when I agreed to give away 2 $25 Walmart gift cards instead of one $50 gift card!

There’s only one thing I wish I would have done differently with the Magnificent Metallic painting project: I wish I would have used 3M blue painter’s tape rather than the green Frog Tape. The metallic paint bled through both sides of the Frog tape, which left me the tedious job of touching up tiny little specks of silver paint around each road.

Other than the painting tape not working as well as I expected it to, the Disney Glidden Paint was great to work with and I would definitely use it again! I actually still have quite a bit of the Disney Glidden Magnificent Metallic silver paint left, and I’m brainstorming a creative way to make sure it gets used up!

Compensation and products for review were provided by Glidden via MomTrends.  The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions of Glidden. 

Note: This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Please read my first article about Disney Glidden Paint to see my initial thoughts and shopping experience before reading on.

When I introduced the idea that I’m using Disney Glidden Paint to transform a room in our home, I noted that my son and daughter share a bedroom. All of us are happy with the arrangement, and we don’t have plans to separate them.

The downfall of having a boy and girl share a room is the over-abundance of neutral. There’s just too much brown, tan and white for a kids’ bedroom. I forgot to take a “before” picture of their bedroom, but I can easily explain it: light beige walls, white trim, wood furniture and very little in terms of decor.

Haiden and Piper’s bedroom could definitely use some personality, and Disney Glidden Paint has been helping me do exactly that.

The paint job is still a work in progress, but I actually mocked up my idea using the Room Painter on the Disney Glidden Paint website! The image above shows what I want the final product to look like, and I have three out of the five steps done:

Step 1: Haiden and Piper’s entire room got a fresh coat of Disney Glidden paint in Pawprint with an eggshell finish. This was from the Winnie The Pooh collection of colors. The paint went on smoothly and easily.

Step 2: I smoothed two strips of Frog Tape painter’s tape down the wall on Haiden’s side. There was about 3-4 feet between the tape. I also taped the ceiling and the baseboard between the horizontal strips to form a large rectangle. Then, I cut in a thin coat of Disney Glidden Rally Blue (from the Disney Cars color selection) all the way around the taped area. After that, I used a full size paint roller so the entire rectangle was filled in with Rally Blue.

 Step 3: Apply a second coat of Rally Blue paint to the inside of the rectangle.

 Step 4: in progress  Tape the painted blue section and add 2-3″ strips of Disney Paint’s Magnificent Metallic specialty finish in silver.

 Step 5: in progress  Apply Disney Cars wall decals and other road-themed decals to turn the silver strips into roads with cars on them!

I think I learn a little more about painting tips, skills and techniques every time I paint, and this time was no exception!

First, I made the classic mistake of choosing a color for the bedroom walls that was just too similar to the previous color. Don’t get me wrong; Pawprint is a perfect warm tan color, but I couldn’t really see the difference after I painted over the ecru shade of the previous paint. On the plus side, that pretty much guaranteed that I only needed to use one coat of Disney Glidden Paint for the biggest area I planned to paint!

Second, I need to remember every time I paint that it’s the taping and prep work that takes the longest time! I really needed the painters tape on the left and right sides of the rectangle to be perfectly horizontal, so my husband suggested I use a laser level. It was a good idea, but I guess the floors in the bedroom are crooked, because when the device showed level, the laser line certainly wasn’t straight! When I did manage to get a straight line from the level, I found myself stepping in front of it so I couldn’t see it to tape against. Plus, cats love lasers, so my kitties had a ball following the laser line to the device and batting it out of position.

After I got my lines started on either side, I switched to quickly marking them with a pencil, then using the tape and a handheld level to get the lines straight from the ceiling to the floor. By the time I had finished putting up two strips of tape, nearly an hour had passed!

On the flip side, painting the rectangle inside the tape was a super-fast job. Cutting in was a breeze, especially since I learned that a 2.5 inch angled sash brush is the best tool for this job. Then, the roller covered so much area  that the actual painting only took about 20 minutes. I left the tape up, turned on a fan and let the first coat dry before applying the second coat.

The trickiest step is definitely going to be those silver stripes created with the Disney Glidden Paint Magnificent Metallic specialty finish. I’m excited to see what it looks like, and I’m even more excited to share the final project with all of you!

Read Part 1 of this story to learn more about Disney Glidden paint and the ways it can make an amazing difference in decorating a room! 

Read Part 3 of the story to see the final paint project for a girl and boy sharing a room. It’s amazing what a fun paint can do! 

Disclosure: Compensation and products for review were provided by Glidden via MomTrends.  The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions of Glidden.