Please tell me who thought it was a good idea to buy a nearly century-old house and that it would be “fun” to fix and update it all up?
Ohhh….right. Me. Yes…well…it was a truly brilliant idea. And since all brilliant ideas in my household seem to lead to even bigger and brighter ideas, today I’ll give you a sort of half unveil of our new bedroom. And then we’ll do a run down of the waterfall of projects that have stemmed from just wanting a new color on our walls.
If you recall, we decided after four years of living with our old lady wallpaper it was time to give our bedroom a new color. We roughly agreed on the color and after two coats of paint (Behr paint & primer in one – best paint ever! Color: color-matched to the Martha Steward color Hydrangea), we have arrived at this…
I’m still not completely in love with the color. In the morning it is a little too light and blue for what I was going for. But in the late afternoon, it is exactly what I was hoping for…a nice dark blue. And at night it is perfect. So it stays.
And of course the new paint needed some new bedding…
…and I loved the blues, greens and browns in this duvet. And then once I opened it up I was thinking it isn’t too girly, so J. might like it and then I spotted the BIRDS! Love it…so it also stays. (And then I ended up getting it for $19.99 at Target on clearance when I went back for a price adjustment – so it most definitely stays!!)
But now? You knew that was coming, right? Yes…now, the black bed and nightstands are too…black. I think I’m going to repaint the bed a chocolate brown – it needs to be something other than that black. And I am toying with doing something to the nightstands so it isn’t all so matchy-matchy, too.
And notice how our behemoth of an armoire is over by the door now…it is slowly making its way out of our room. No, not on its’ own accord, but I purposely didn’t move it back to the corner so that we could easily move it out of the room. I have a plan for that as well that I haven’t quite sold J. on yet. We’ll see, you might see that armoire as the star of Crafty Tuesday in the not so distant future.
I want to put a little chaise and bookcase/library area over where the armoire used to live – which is a totally non-essential project, but it is staying on the “list.”
Oh…and also notice how we have no door on our bedroom right now, too? Well, once the color went on the walls it was obvious we needed to repaint the trim and I have visions of a nice, glossy white on all of the woodwork upstairs. And once I started looking to paint the doors, I realized that they are already 5 coats thick with paint and peeling…so I took our door down and started the stripping process. THREE DAYS AGO. I just rehung the ONE stripped door this evening. And only have a mere TEN more doors to go upstairs. At this rate, I’ll be lucky to get the upstairs done before Christmas.
And we need baseboards, too. Apparently someone decided to remove the baseboards at some point in time and just put the quarter-inch round shoekicks back up, which were also very shabby. So add baseboards in all three bedrooms to the list. Which seemed completely do-able until as I was painting realized that we have rounded bullnose corners at all the archways.
These crazy “great” ideas, they never seem to help cross anything off this mythical list.
