She Spray Painted Her Toddler’s Tiny Christmas Tree Toy Beige To Better Match Her Home Decor
If you’ve been on social media for the last year and come across a few interior design posts along your way, you may have heard the term “sad beige.”
Many people throw around this term when they see others choose beige colors for most of their often minimalist interior design choices and buy a lot of home decor in beige.
Some of these beige lovers will do almost anything to ensure color coordination, even if that means they have to paint over one of their kid’s bright-colored toys.
One mom recently went viral on TikTok after spray painting her toddler’s tiny plastic Christmas tree to look more aesthetically pleasing in her living room.
Nattie (@nattiejopo) is a mom with a little girl who makes lifestyle content on TikTok. Recently, she had to defend herself from harsh online comments after posting a video of herself giving her daughter’s toy Christmas tree a “makeover.”
“Go ahead and call me crazy or a ‘sad beige mom’ for what I’m about to do,” says Nattie at the beginning of her viral video.
“Today, I’m giving the Step2 ‘My First Christmas Tree’ a total makeover. I’m leaning into my inner Pinterest mom with a vision to neutralize the tree.”
Nattie tells her viewers in her video that out of all her daughter’s bright-colored toys, her favorite things to play with are brown cardboard boxes and clear plastic water bottles. So, Nattie jokes that her daughter is a “neutral girlie” at heart.
To give the little plastic Christmas tree and ornaments a makeover, Nattie went to Lowe’s and purchased several metallic and neutral-colored spray paints before spraying every single piece of the Christmas tree, including the plastic tree skirt and ornaments.
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After spray painting each piece outside and letting it dry overnight, the tree became a more neutral, natural green color, and the ornaments and gold star were transformed into more understated bronze colors.
“They’re definitely giving organic, modern vibes,” says a pleased Nattie in her video.
While the tree is still green and matches her living room very well, many TikTok viewers were not pleased with what Nattie did to the toy.
“The ornaments are making me sad,” commented one TikTok user.
“It was literally so cute before,” commented another user.
Despite the critiques, Nattie is able to poke fun at herself, sarcastically labeling herself as a ‘sad beige mom,’ and she’s made follow-up videos to show just how many colorful toys, books, and accessories her little one is surrounded by every day.
Nattie also made a brief tutorial for creating safe, colorful ornaments for toddlers to play with after some commenters accused her of putting her daughter at risk by spray painting the toy ornaments, which she could put in her mouth.
“All beef aside, I could care less if you think that I’m a sad beige mom,” says Nattie in one of her follow-up videos.
“But I do care about how a lot of you guys commented on the colors and the safety of the ornaments. My toddler truly doesn’t put these in her mouth.”
Nattie then showed her viewers how to make safer, colorful kid ornaments by filling plastic fillable ornaments with acrylic paint, emptying them, letting them dry, and removing paint from the lip of the ornament and giving the option to glue and seal the ornaments for extra safety.
The new ornaments Nattie made in her tutorial are a lovely bright pink and purple and have been added to her daughter’s Step2 Christmas tree collection.
“If you do have an opinion, please be kind about it or move along,” says Nattie at the end of her video.
Have you ever been tempted to change the color of one of your kids’ toys?
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