Painting Our Master Bedroom

The Littlest Apple’s GI checkup is tomorrow morning, and I’m more than a little anxious about it since it is clear that his medicine has made no difference whatsoever in the last two months.  I’m going to distract myself with this frivolous post about house stuff.  (I’ll report in sometime in the next few days about how the appointment goes.)

Our downstairs is decently painted, decorated and furnished (though I’m already ready to repaint!).  The playroom is well on its way.  The Littlest Apple’s room is painted, furnished and decorated.  His bathroom makeover is also looking better.

One room we’ve sorely neglected is our bedroom.  There are so many things to love about our bedroom.  It is large (for the size of our house) and gets great light from a wall of 3 windows.  The master bathroom is a good size, and our closet is a huge walk-in.

This room has so much potential, but we’ve really ignored it so far.  We don’t have much in the way of bedroom furniture.  We’ve got 2 night stands, a chest of drawers, a bed (no headboard), and a bookshelf way too small for all of my books.  That’s it as far as bedroom furniture goes.

Because this is such a big room, our bedroom is also currently home to The Giant Red Couch (formerly in the playroom…our first purchase from our apartment days) and the matching Giant Red Chair and Ottoman which are awaiting their fated trip to Goodwill.  I love having a giant chair in the room as a reading spot, but the giant red pieces have GOT to go.  Although they are comfortable, they are oversized, faded, scratched from our cat,  and have no business in our bedroom.  They also completely clash with the color scheme I have in mind.  One of spa-like, serene blue-gray and white.

A couple of years ago, I bought this bedding for our room:

Cole Stripe Silk Duvet Cover from Pottery Barn

I LOVE the colors of this bedding.  Love it.  This is the color palette I want in our bedroom.  But the duvet ripped (though I’m hoping to repair it).  Not sure why this picture is so dark…it really does look as pretty as it does in the image above!

And now I’m thinking maybe I like the idea of having all white bedding, like this:

image from Pottery Barn

I”m particularly liking this:

image from Pottery Barn

I have been going round and round with what color to paint the walls of our bedroom.  In fact, shortly after we moved in over 3 years ago, I started putting paint samples up on the wall.

Some blues….

And a couple of browns, because at first I wasn’t sure I wanted blue walls….

THREE YEARS LATER those paint swatches are still there. THREE YEARS, we’ve been staring at those swatches on our bedroom wall!! We like none of them.  They are all too dark.  Finding the perfect blue-gray is tricky.  Yet another reason I want to switch the bedding to all white is so I’m not trying to match (or coordinate) the wall color to the striped bedding.

So the search for the perfect paint color begins again.  I’m looking for a blue-gray that is serene and subtle.  I’ve seen quite a few colors on blogs that I’m going to track down, but you never really know what it will look like in your OWN room, you know?  I’m hoping to start painting (or at least pick a color) this weekend.  Wish me luck!

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