Project Remodel - Individual Therapy Rooms

After four and a half years of bright, flowery furniture, hand-me-down couches and enough pastels to make Easter jealous, I thought it was high time we remodeled our individual therapy rooms.  I petitioned Ronda for the go ahead and she was totally on board.

So I picked some paint samples, slapped them on the walls and opened the polls for voting.  It was very contentious as you can see.

It turns out my beloved bright blue wasn’t very popular; apparently no one else was having the same vision I was having.  I believe Sarah Moorad used the term “scary” when discribing the bright blue.  Ruh-roh!  I’m also fairly certain either some staff and/or clients voted multiple times as I don’t believe we HAD this many people on site that day.  I digress.  The green vs. purple race was more contentious than the Iron Bowl.  And that dear reader is saying something!  So I decided to get all wild and crazy and use both colors.

My dear friend, fearless Intake Coordinator and employee-who-sits-20-feet-to-my-left-and-is-otherwise-known-as-Ashley volunteered to help me paint.  

I think she was also quite stoked to wear her sweats painting clothes to work for the entire day!  As was I dear reader, as was I.

Lynn, our PHP Coordinator, also brought her mad skills to the table and helped me paint the green and purple room (formerly known as Therapy Room B).  It was a painting party!  A dabba-do time was had by all.

Then Ashley helped me hang the curtains; white seersucker which can be purchased at your local Z Gallerie.  They lighten up the room a little since we used such bold colors on the walls in what are primarily very small rooms (the biggest is about 8ft x 8ft with a single window).

Then we needed something for all those blank walls.  They were staring at me and haunting me like those blank eyes on mannequins.  So I took some time away from pestering Blue Cross Blue Shield, submitting payroll, “tweeting”, blogging and searching for casting news for the Hunger Games movie to peruse one of my all time favorite websites – Etsy!  The green and purple room (formerly known as Therapy Room B) now has a gallery wall even Jeff Lewis could be proud of!

A little more Z Gallerie shopping led me to some other great finds for our walls.

Just ya know, adjusting my rack making sure the deer head isn’t crooked.  And yes people, my shirt has holes in it.  I was painting!

And now dear readers, my most favorite find of all, strait from the Netherlands; an ixxi!  A who?  An ixxi!

I heard about this company from a blog I read called decor8.  It’s a wall hanging of individual tiles you connect together in the corners with a little x’s.  It hangs like a curtain at the top.  They print them off for you after you upload a high resolution picture.  It wasn’t super expensive, only took a few days to print & ship and was really easy to assemble.  I <3 IXXI!

And now for the big reveals!  

The Blue Room (formerly known as Therapy Room A)

The before shot.
 

A little floral, a little pink and a little bland.  It makes me sad too.  And what's with that thing outside the window leaning against the house???

And here it is after!

Bold!  Vibrant!  It’s a little bit country AND a little bit rock n’ roll.  It’s a room that says “healing happens here”.