Lydia Reynolds painted jungle and plains scenes freehand on each wall in 3-year-old Trace Talbert’s bedroom, filling them with hippos, rhinoceroses, herons, elephants and lions.
Tim Talbert plays with his children in son Trace’s jungle-themed bedroom. Murals painted around the room enhance the 3-D effect of the zebra mounted to the wall.
Trace sits on his jungle-themed bed made by American Rustic Furniture in Trenton, Ga.“Cute, but not cartoonish.”
That’s the look Michelle Talbert says she had in mind when she began planning an animal-themed room for her 3-year-old son, Trace.
“I wanted a room that would grow with Trace,” she explains, “with the idea we wouldn’t have to change it until he was about 11 or 12.”
But it wasn’t until she accompanied her mother-in-law on a trip to New York City that she found the way to achieve such a long-wearing look.
“We came across a vendor who sold 3-D animals to put on walls. We purchased a giraffe and zebra. We already knew we wanted to paint something in the room, so the animals prompted a safari idea,” she says.