Bedroom Reveal!

Here's the moment you've all been waiting for! (At least I hope so! lol!) I finally got around to taking some photos of our newly painted bedroom yesterday. Yay!

Here it is: Ta Da!

Ok. Here's the part where I confess. That navy blob hanging over our window is not the drapery panels which I told you we would be hanging this past Monday. It's a sheet we've pinned to the window. The panels we have are lined, but we feel that we also need something else to block the light at night. And of course, The Boy and I cannot agree on what to put up yet. So we haven't hung up the drapes I have for this room. 

So the window is the last thing to be finished in here. 

My goal is to have something picked and in place by mid February. We'll see how that goes...

Anyway, it's really amazing what a coat of paint can do for a room. Nothing has really changed in here except the paint, the new art above the bed (and soon the window treatment). Somehow this blue has made our cedar wall seem a lot cooler and I don't even mind the furniture as much with this wonderful colour around it either.

The chair in the shot above was bought at an antique store I lived beside in Osborne Village when I was in University. I bought it in that cream colour. It was my desk chair for a long time.

I bought these lovely vanity items at Good will for $5 (for both!) and have been saving them for my end table.

And finally, a shot into the hallway. I love the way the blue and green look together. With the winter months being so long here in Manitoba, The Boy and I consciously picked a palette of blues, greens and browns for our house to remind us of summer. It does the trick I think!
 And you also may notice the art which formerly hung above our bed has migrated to the hall where the proportion is much better. And it echoes the blue back in which I like.

And as always, here's what the room looked like (unmade bed and all!) at the end of 2011.

And what it looked like when we moved in. Please take note of the horrid pink overhead light (all of our bedroom lights are positioned in the corner of the room), and the random glass shelf hanging above the end table (there were random small shelves hanging everywhere in this house when we moved in! Weird).

And for those of you wondering what my drapes look like. Here they are:

photo borrowed from Amazon.com

They're Umbra Concerto Panels in Pewter (which I have discovered are discontinued, but you can still buy them on Amazon.com).

So as usual, I will take some more photos once we've got this window thing figured out and do some more show and tell.

Lisa.xo

True Blue

It's Sunday night as I type this. I am laying on my freshly made bed in our freshly painted room.

In total, from beginning to end, prep and painting took me from Thursday afternoon till Sunday afternoon. My arms hurt, I stubbed my toe really badly in our dark basement while getting something I'd forgotten down there (expletives ensued!), there may or may not have been a fight or two over the mess in the house, I may or may not have accidentally got paint on the carpet (The Boy may or may not have got upset and had to clean it...),
and I still have paint in my hair.

But it was all worth it! Our bedroom looks amazing! We still have to hang our drapery rod and drapes today, but everything else is finished.

By the end of the day it was too dark to take good photos once we finished putting everything back together, so I snapped this one quick for you!

I start work (it's Prep Week) at Manitoba Theatre Centre today for their next production at 10am. I'll do my best to snap some photos of the bedroom and post before the end of the week.

Lisa.xo

Starting the Year off Right

It's been a while since we've tackled a large decorating project around the house.

I figured it was about time we take on painting another room.

So today I started prepping our bedroom for painting. Most people leave their bedroom until the very last when decorating. My habit has always been to paint my living room, then the bedroom.
It's a very important room! It's where you start and end all of your days. It's important for it to be soothing and pretty.

I obviously don't have any "after" photos yet as I haven't even picked up a paint brush at this point, but I thought it might be fun to tease you a little with the "befores".

Here's what our bedroom looked like right after we moved in (it's got extra furniture in it at this point because we were painting the living room).

Here's what it looked like this morning before I ripped it all apart.

The bedding, lamps and furniture will stay. I don't love this furniture. It was The Boys before we moved in together. He loves it. I've made many concessions with him in this room. Gotta make 'em somewhere!
I have new art and drapes waiting in storage. No headboard. The Boy doesn't want one. Another concession.

The door on the right is the entrance to our half bath ensuite. I won't be painting it. We will gut it and do a complete reno on it sometime this year.

The Boy calls this colour "Dirty Old Bra". Our entire house is painted this colour. We hate it with a passion. I can't believe we haven't painted more rooms yet. 

The closet and the door into the hallway.

This is what it looks like right now pre-paint. Dresser and end tables under the tarp.

The cedar wall will stay. The Boy loved it when we moved in and it has grown on me. I feel a lot better about it since rough hewn walls in bedrooms are so trendy right now.

All of the trim and the ceiling will be white.

We'll be paining the remaining walls Harbor Blue from CIL. (would be Harbour here in Canada. The "u" makes it look better I think...). As usual this is looking a little washed out. In person it's a little deeper. I'm trying to tie the colours in the living room and dining room into this room a little. More blue, more white, less green in this room.

The plan is to be finished everything by Saturday night/Sunday morning. Wish me luck! And stay tuned for the official "after" photos!

Lisa.xo