I've been saying for 3 years now that I would redo my bedroom. I've been in and out of this room for over 10 years and it needed some TLC asap. The walls were a sickness/depression inducing yellowing off-white. The trim was a sad peeling dirty white. I'm forgetting to mention the 20 holes from different window curtain set ups (not me, I never had curtains.) I hated being in the room, and mostly I didn't care about it until I realized I'm gonna be here for another 10 years. Something had to be done.
If anyone knows how hard it is to prep a room, I think it is just as hard to pick a paint color for a room. It took years, I started out with colors in the aqua blue family, I had paint chips all over my room for 2 years. Then somehow I saw a room that was grey with deep purple accents and I knew I had to recreate the colors. Now Grey is a color that I thought was going to be easy, NOT! You can see in some of the before's that I had already painted swatches on the wall, well those were there since November. And once I decided on a paint I went to Home Depot to get the paint and much to my demise after going back and forth to the Dopey (4 times) they didn't have the color in a non-primer mix, so I had to choose another color and bring it home to test it. The final color I choose was Home Depot's Behr's Sterling 780E-3 I had to pre-prime the wall because the high gloss that was my wall paint and because the true color of the new paint would show better.
I'm not even going to go into the actual prep and painting process, that I will put in another post as the behind the scenes of my room redo. So without further ado, here it is:
Before:
Now granted I want to do a whole lot more. I never got to finish the floors or replace the shoe molding. I also need to get a book shelf thingy for my books. I need to recover some storage boxes to make them all uniform. I need a frame for the the painting my mom did thats over the bed. I also need to take out the green dresser that is holding my TV and get some kind of shelving for that. So much work. So little time. Whatever ♥
If anyone knows how hard it is to prep a room, I think it is just as hard to pick a paint color for a room. It took years, I started out with colors in the aqua blue family, I had paint chips all over my room for 2 years. Then somehow I saw a room that was grey with deep purple accents and I knew I had to recreate the colors. Now Grey is a color that I thought was going to be easy, NOT! You can see in some of the before's that I had already painted swatches on the wall, well those were there since November. And once I decided on a paint I went to Home Depot to get the paint and much to my demise after going back and forth to the Dopey (4 times) they didn't have the color in a non-primer mix, so I had to choose another color and bring it home to test it. The final color I choose was Home Depot's Behr's Sterling 780E-3 I had to pre-prime the wall because the high gloss that was my wall paint and because the true color of the new paint would show better.
I'm not even going to go into the actual prep and painting process, that I will put in another post as the behind the scenes of my room redo. So without further ado, here it is:
Before:
After:
Now granted I want to do a whole lot more. I never got to finish the floors or replace the shoe molding. I also need to get a book shelf thingy for my books. I need to recover some storage boxes to make them all uniform. I need a frame for the the painting my mom did thats over the bed. I also need to take out the green dresser that is holding my TV and get some kind of shelving for that. So much work. So little time. Whatever ♥
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