Updatin' the Bedroom

When we moved into our home, we were so thrilled about the neutral colors the walls had been painted - we weren't going to have to paint over bright colors or dark colors or ugly colors. Hooray! We did paint over the pink (ew.) in our bathroom and the yellow (eh.) in our main bathroom, but overall, super thrilled with the neutrals.

Until we looked around . . .

And realized . . .

We live in . . .

A jello chocolate pudding cup.

Everything is BROWN! Ack! All of our furniture and our bed linens and our furniture was all the same shade of brown. It was just too too much. So we tried to lighten it up but getting a new comforter and pillows, but still . . . so much brown.

Before school started, Grandpa spent a few days with Todd putting up crown molding in our room and painting the room a pale gray. I don't have a pre-molding picture (not that it was anything anyone wanted to see . . .) but at least the pudding walls can be seen.

The Before:

The Before looks better than it did, simply because its a few steps towards the After, there's molding up.

The After!

At this point, we've changed our dresser and our nightstands, but still need to replace the bed (its just about to fall apart - good timing!) and find something, anything to put on the walls. Such a blank expanse . . .

But the room feels so much bigger and brighter now - I'm in a great place with gray!

We're thinking now about the front room, with its basic shade of brown, which of course match perfectly to our relatively new brown couches that there's no way we're changing. So paint it is, whenever and whatever that may be.