i did it...

Ava and I stopped in to Sherwin Williams on Saturday to pick up paint for my room. I brought a sample of the paint I mixed at home to see if there was a close match. I found it in SW Great Falls 6495. It's a dark tealy-blue. I decided to go with matte/flat as there are some imperfections in the wall.

I rolled the first coat on and freaked out. It was dark. It was blue. What was I thinking? Then I reminded myself that I always question myself on the first coat and to wait until things were placed back in the room before making a decision.

Glad I did because now I really like it. Can't wait to get new curtains and pillows and decorate.

 Ignore the curtains. I don't know what I'm going to do yet so I just put the old curtains back up for now.

Now that there is new paint on the walls, the trim looks bad so I'm going to have to paint that next. Oh and the bedroom door needs to go black and I need to decide what to do with the closet doors. But I'm glad I'm making progress!

lamps done

Last night I tackled recovering the lamps. I shouldn't say tackled because the whole process is really easy.

Before: Yawn....

I mixed up some colors from my paint supply and came up with one I love. It's the one on the left.

I decided to stitch the trim to give it some contrast and a homemade vibe. Which it is.

Now I just need to paint the walls, build the headboard, redo the tables, stitch up some shams, make curtains and I'll be done!

my bedroom makeover

I recently shared that we made over the girls rooms upstairs and they look great. There are still things I need to do (like curtains) but I need to make a trip to Ikea for that. I also recently sold all of the Pottery Barn storage bookshelf/bins stuff out of the little kids rooms and all of their toys are being held in little plastic containers on the floor. Nice. A trip to Ikea will make that all better.

Anyway, I've been wanting to re-do the color in my room for awhile. I like the turquoise but since all the rest of the paint colors downstairs are on the warm side, my cool-tone walls didn't go well. I LOVE the bohemian look of mixing saturated color and patterns so that is what I'm going for.

The room will go a dark blue (still in the teal/turquoise family). Like this inspiration picture but maybe more muddy/gray/warmer.

http://www.themarionhousebook.com/a-bedroom-to-escape-to/

Before (the paint color is a little darker/brighter than these pics).

My sad aviation wall is missing frames because they are being used by others in this house.

Look, no lamps but that's because I recently stole the lamps from the girls room and they aren't installed yet.

The headboard was made when the room was brown with different bedding. Doesn't match anymore. A new headboard is being built.

Closet is the big white spot. I'm going to paint the doors black.

My office is in the bedroom as there is no other place for it.

Curtains will be changed out and curtain rod has been moved to the ceiling.

So on Saturday the room got stripped of all the wall stuff, holes filled in and I decided to rearrange to see if I could make more room. To get to the little kids room, you have to go through our room.

After the clean up and re-arranging:

Bed moved to aviation wall and lamp sconces installed.

(which I took from the girls room).

I plan to recover the shades in amazing bohemian inspired fabic from my vast fabric stash.

http://davidandcarolineparker.blogspot.com/2011/01/master-bed-how-we-built-it.html

We're building a headboard like this.

I'm going to repaint the side tables even though I would love some cute round ones but that wouldn't provide any storage and I don't want to spend the money when I still like these.

(we bought them at a garage sale for $5.00 about 16 years ago)

Curtain rods moved up made the room feel bigger.

Now my curtains are ready for a flood.

They will be going soon. I'm thinking of doing pinch pleat curtains the same color as the new wall color. Which means that I have to pick the fabric out first and then match the paint color.

The room flows much better and I'm anxious to make all the other changes.

sneek peek

Here's a sneek peek of my new desk. I will snap some after pictures as soon as I can hide the cords and find an organizer for underneath. I really like it and all its Parson-iny goodness.

bedroom makeover continued...

My bedroom makeover has stalled due to ripping out the closet upstairs to put in a half-bath. I'm anxious to jump start it again.

My office is in our bedroom (which I'm usually not a fan of) because two of my children needed a bedroom, go figure. I'm trying to make it look nice and organized.



We installed two giant shelves above my desk to hold all of my label printing supplies and I did have a mishmash of baskets that didn't look so nice. So I broke down and bought matching baskets from Target. I also bought come chalkboard fabric tags from bradensgracewallart on etsy so I knew what was in the baskets.


Pretty neato, huh!

I'm placing postcards around my monitor so I don't have to look at a blank wall. Brian is finishing up my new custom built parsons style desk to replace the one I have now. I'll snap a picture of that soon.

I still need to finish the curtains as well as recover our headboard and possibly paint the craigslist find dresser. At the very least I need to paint the hardware.

When I finish that, I am going to repaint the living room gray thanks to the encouragement of my blog commentors. Brian is thrilled. :)

bleached

We're making over our bedroom and I have wanted this bedding from Pottery Barn for awhile. I did not like the price tag. After weeks of searching, I found it cheaper on eBay. Yay!

However, when it got here the color was golder than I had pictured. I was bummed out. Should I resell it or live with it? I lived with it for a few days hoping I would like it but I did not. So I decided to do a brave (or foolish) thing. I would try to bleach out the color a bit.

I stuck it in the hot wash and poured a 1/2 cup of bleach. I let it sit for 15 minutes and with fear and trepidation, I checked it. It was lighter! I went ahead and washed it and then rewashed it then stuck it in the dryer.

As I went to pull it out of the dryer, I was a little nervous. What if I hated it? I couldn't resell it now and I would have to live with it. Fortunately, I loved it and it is what I had in mind all along.

Here's a picture of it next to the original color (these are the shams that I sold).



It looks so good next to our turquoise blue walls. I still need to get some new sheets, sew a bedskirt, finish the curtains and sew some shams and then I can reveal the new look.

Bedroom progress

We are almost done with our bedroom makeover. The ceiling is a pale silver blue that I LOVE. Here is the inspiration for our paint colors. My Pottery Barn duvet:


We spray painted the brass/faux wood ceiling fan a hammered copper and the blades the same blue as the ceiling. It really disappears now.



Please note that I could not get the right blue in any of these pics.
The walls are a brown that I like now. After I put the first coat on I thought I was living in a sand pit. The paint dried darker - thank goodness - and it is fine now.



Gone are the phone numbers etched on our walls.





Closet doors before.



The closet doors are a pale blue with glass knobs.
Now. Just need to put up some inner moulding.


The sliding door to the sewing room is also a pale blue. Brian is going to paint some branches and cherry blossoms on it soon.


The plaster wall patch repair we had to do turned out great and you can hardly tell there was a big gaping hole there.



Before
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One coat of plaster


Now
Next up is to build a picture frame headboard for our Sleep Number bed. We already have the moulding and I just need to paint and distress it. Then find some fabric to put inside. I didn't think I would actually be painting at 36.5 weeks pregnant but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Painting the top part of the walls was no big deal but getting up and down off the floor was a challenge. :)


Oh and here is our next project. We scored this dresser at the Goodwill outlet for $20. It is solid oak with dovetailed drawers. We plan on stripping it and staining it. I'm trying to convince Brian to build a hutch for it. We'll see ;) Our current teeny, tiny, small dresser will go to the girls. I'll post some "after pics" soon.