Day 32: Do Over

Jack was nice enough to help paint this crazy bedroom of mine last weekend, and he was nice enough to come back and do it all over again this weekend. He’s actually the one who found this paint color (Behr’s Almond Cream), which we tested for the proper ratio of tan-ness to gray-ness by dragging a big patch of leftover carpet with us to the hardware store.

I don’t know why this carpet was so hard to match, but there were very few pale, neutral colors that we could find to complement it. What we ended up picking is dangerously close to boring old beige.

But if the carpet loves it (and I think it will once all of the drop cloths are moved out), I love it. In this house I’ve definitely been gravitating towards quiet wall colors, preferring to treat the rooms like blank canvases to fill with more interesting stuff. Such as that lovely chair (in the top picture) that I trash picked and will some day refinish. Since my furniture tends not to match and I decorate with whatever objects I find interesting, sticking with unobtrusive paint colors gives me a little more freedom to move things around.

So with the walls painted, here’s the to-do list for the rest of the room:

  1. Hang the closet organization system. Did that today.
  2. Find a window treatment for my bay windows. I’m avoiding curtains and will hopefully DIY a solution with two rolling blinds: an inner blind to block street lights at night and an outer blind to filter daylight.
  3. Paint, cut and attach baseboards.
  4. Paint, cut and attach shelves for the built-in bookcase.
  5. Finish painting the closet doors purple.
  6. Hang closet doors and trim.
  7. Dance.

I probably won’t get to step 7 next weekend, due to the nastiness of step 3. But we’re so very close!