Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Bedroom Makeover

Sometime last year, I told Jeremy that I would like to get a new comforter for the bedroom. The one we currently had, was given to us by his grandma and made for a queen bed - ours is a king. It never properly fit. Also, our room walls were blue and I was really getting tired of the blue walls. We took our gift cards we got for Christmas 2009 and months later went to Kohls and found a new bedding set. A little bit later, we went to Lowe's and picked out paint samples. Months and months went by and the new bedding just sat in our bedroom along with the 4 paint samples we picked out. Fast forward to earlier in January. I told Jeremy that I would like to get our bedroom cleaned out and re-organized and painted and have our new bedding put up. He was going to be on vacation from the 29th until the 4th of February. I made the executive decision that we would plan to re-do our bedroom that weekend he was off. Earlier that week I painted samples on the wall and didn't like any of them (neither did Jeremy). One day during lunch, I made the trip to Home Depot and found 3 more paint samples (neutral, but light colors) and came home and painted them on the wall. I liked all 3 of them as did Jeremy, so he chose the darker of the 3 colors (just to make sure it would cover the blue in the least amount of coats). Saturday after we ate a late breakfast, we got to cleaning the room and it took us many hours. The bed, dresser and the big armoire got moved to the center of the room. Anything else that could be moved out, was moved out. After we were done with that, we went to home depot and bought the primer and 2 gallons of paint and then went to hang out with some friends.
The next morning, Jeremy taped off everything while I made breakfast. We then started priming and let it dry and then painted. It only took us 1 gallon of the paint to cover the walls. Oh, we also had the primer tinted. (which I highly recommend for big projects like that)
Here are some before and after pictures of our bedroom.
The final 3 paint samples, as well as a few samples for Logan's room (none of which we are using)
Main wall that our bed is on

Another view of the room

And another view
Primer and paint in the works

Skittles is supervising - I think the paint is done (end of Sunday)

Main wall in bedroom that our bed is on
Room is organized and new bedding is on!!!

Nice and clean!

Jeremy's dresser
I am so happy with the final outcome. Jeremy was kind of shocked that I picked such a generic color of paint, but I am really happy with it. I am glad the blue is gone, our room has been blue since we moved into our house (6 years ago). The other thing I like about this color is we can change out the bedding every few years (if we choose) and not have to worry about finding something to match the paint. We can now pick something different and continue to accent with other colors. I think I am going to get brown or red curtains for the window to help add a splash of color. Also, I have a wall saying that will go on the wall in about 3 weeks (the instructions said to wait about 3 weeks before applying to freshly painted walls) I also plan on adding some pictures to make the room a little more homey!
What do you think of the new room?!?

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