Our Room

Wow.  It was almost two full years ago that we were deciding what color to paint our bedroom!

Well, we finally did it.

After deciding that red was both too intense for our cottage-style home and wouldn't coordinate well with our lavender bath, and after John quickly vetoed yellow, we settled on green.

Then we had to decide which green to choose, which was quite an ordeal itself!  I was leaning toward a warmish grass green, but not too bright, and not too olive.  We had nearly a dozen different paint chips taped up on the wall for a few weeks until I finally came home with two paint samples.  We didn't like either of those, so I came home with two more . . .

We finally took the plunge and bought a gallon of a paint we hadn't tried as a sample!  It was just one shade darker than the sample on the lower right.  It wasn't intentional, but the result is actually quite similar to the shade of John's beloved green boyhood bedroom.  :)  

The room before:

The room now:

 I hung these pretty curtains from Target quite a while ago, but only recently did I actually take down the ugly mini blinds and spray paint the rods a dark brown.  I think it was my cousin, Missy, who suggested spray painting the rods in my dining room.  We actually took her suggestion for the nursery, since the rods we had on hand were not an attractive color.  I loved the result so much that I decided maybe we should have deep brown rods and clean white curtains in every room of the house, for some coherence.

I love how the curtains are a bit too long and drag their pretty edges on the floors.  :)

There's more to do, like hanging items on the walls.  I occasionally check Craigslist for four poster and canopy beds.  I have yet to find just the right one, but you never know!  Or maybe I'll just redo the headboard some day.  Sometimes I envision replacing the ceiling fan with a chandelier, or at least trying to spray paint the brass and faux wood away.  Oh, and I need to sew our bedskirt a bit.  It was a king size, and our bed is a queen, so it just needs a couple of pleats down the middle.  One step at a time.  :)