Testing out our pickets

So we got to thinking ... the wood pickets are huge ... and would come into the room a lot and it would take a lot to attach them to the wall ... plus we would have to paint all of them ... and they are made to be an outside fence so they are pressure treated and we weren't sure about putting formaldehyde in a baby's room ...

We talked about painting them on the wall ... which in talks we decided it would take quite some time to paint ... and the design at the top would be hard to replicate with smooth lines without a template ... talks of templates proved futile ...

Then while talking to my dad he suggested using wood slats from blinds ... no chemical treatment, already white and much much thinner than the pickets we had purchased ... I told him it was worth a try ...

while walking through the warehouse he also grabbed some vertical blind slats and sent them down to me ... those were PERFECT ... they even have a texture that makes them appear to be wood ... the samples that I cut out turned out awesome ... we figured out how many we needed and he sent them down ... then it was my job to draw the top design and cut them out ... they look absolutely amazing ... and much better than the real wood ...

Testing out the picket idea ...