Room Decor

I agree, adding fairytale creatures (mermaids, fairies, frog prince, etc) to your pond and choosing one color to paint the remaining walls would be adorable.

In case you aren't artistically inclined they make wall paper cutouts in all sorts of fun shapes. Wallies is a popular brand. You could just purchase and paste your new characters on the mural. http://www.usawallpaper.com/walstic.html

And then matching your bedding up to a color in the mural would pull it together. You can even take pictures of the mural and get them printed onto throw pillows. One thing I did in my daughter's room (also 3) is use a quilt in coordinating colors without any sign of her theme (horses) on it. This way if she decides she could care less about horses in a year or 2 I can just change her accessories.

Good luck!

I like what the others have mentioned.
Yet, another idea is to take nice pictures of parts of the mural that you love. Go ahead and paint over it and then just put the pictures into nice frames that look like windows or something and hang them in your princess room!

Or you could pick a section of the wall and paint around it, then around the section you like have like french doors painted. Does that make sense? So it seems like you're looking out the doors at the pond scene!

Hi L.! Wow! That sounds like quite an undertaking! I like the idea the previous responder had about adding a mermaid. You could give her a sparkly pink top or something. Your idea of painting the other walls a different color is good. But I would go with just one color. I think it may look kind of clownish if you have more than one wall that is different from all the others. I think the yellow would be good. My middle child LOVES yellow! We painted her room yellow and then bought a bedspread with butterflies (which might still go with your mural) and it had all the pinks, purples, greens, blues, etc. She loves it. Then we put some butterfly pictures on her wall as well. If you want to stick with the princess thing, maybe you could add a princess sitting next to the pond kissing a frog! Then you could paint the other walls a very light pink and have all the princess decor.

I don't know if any of that will appeal to you or not. I am definitely NOT an interior decorator. But it does seem a shame to paint over such a nice mural. Best of luck!

T.

Why not try adding a "Sleeping Beauty" style castle in the backgrond of the mural? How much more princessy can you get than a castle where the handsome prince lives? Or perhapse something even more simle like adding some bushes in the foreground that flower in beautiful, bright flowers where those butterflies you mentioned earlier can play? I hope these suggestions help.

Michaels also has glittery foam letters to put their names on the wall; I bought those 3M adhesive tabs (at Target near lightbulbs) which won't mar the paint rather than the adhesive that came with letters.

At JoAnns, they have glittery birds and butterflies in the closeouts. I attached to curtains or you could put on fish line and tack to wall, ceiling or wherever. Sheer organza ribbon can also be made into bows and dress up baskets, curtains, stuffed animals.

Can you add the Little Mermaid to the existing mural? That would make it girlie looking & then you would be able to bring other things into the room to help make it even more girlie.