Do you have a play room or living room that looks like a tornado went through it? Oh, and you just cleaned it yesterday? Me too.

We have three kids and a lot of toys. I have bins and baskets aplenty in their playroom, but even with clear organization procedures, the room gets wrecked in a matter of hours. The room gets so messy that the kids no longer want to be down there, and they start bringing their toys upstairs instead of picking up. I get frustrated and yell at everyone and rage clean every once in a while. It’s impossible (at least for our household) to try to keep up with a play room this size. I got tired of yelling at my family and decided to take matters into my own hands. That’s it, mom’s redoing the playroom!

The playroom theme was great before — all the color in our house was in one place. We had a fun pink couch. I obsessively sourced colorful animal art canvases from different HomeGoods around the country (that’s right, it took a whole year). I set up a kids table with bright yellow chairs. It was such a happy place! But after the photo for the ‘gram, my kids would wreck it every day because there were no clear places to put things. You can have all the bins and baskets in the world, but your kids aren’t gonna use them. At least mine don’t; they move fast like their dad!

Anyway, I had my eye on the Rifle Paper Co Dog Days wallpaper for quite some time, and I decided to pull the trigger when it was on sale. I mocked up the room (around the mess!) based on the colors in this wallpaper, and the color palette alone was worth sharing! I totally forgot to bring the wallpaper sample with me, so I used a photo of the wallpaper and the Sherwin Williams app while I was in the store to come up with my colors. I pulled colors from the dogs’ tongues and sunglasses to make a color palette! Sherwin Williams Tricorn Black, Pinky Beige, and Pressed Flower make such a fun color palette to play with! For reference, the wall leading upstairs from the playroom is White Flour (our whole house is painted Sherwin Williams White Flour).

After we got the wallpaper started, I decided I wanted to paint our ceiling black, to make it more of a theater effect (we have a projector screen instead of a TV, it’s a story). I quickly mocked it up in Photoshop, real life mess included, to see what it would look like:

And now we paint!

Follow along on instagram stories @firsthouseonfinn to see how the playroom is coming along!