After three days of painting, I finally finished the master bedroom. I carried the colors from the master bathroom into the bedroom, with Behr’s Silver Tradition on the walls and Soft Denim on the ceiling. When it came to the bathroom, I differentiated the the small water closet from the bathroom as a whole by adding some horizontal stripes (check them out in this post). I wanted to similarly differentiate the bedroom. So here’s a peek from the bathroom.
I added an accent wall. It’s Behr’s Provence. Digression: I bought a quart of the stuff in an eggshell finish, which the guy at HD assured me would be enough for the one wall. I wasn’t. So I had to go back for a second can. The two cans were totally different textures. The first was watery. It seemed strange to me because other Behr paint I have used has been pretty thick. I assumed it was because the color was so much darker than what I have generally used, and the dark pigment affects the consistency of the paint. The second can, however, was the thickness I was used to. What’s the deal? Luckily, I couldn’t tell the difference when they were applied. So here is the rest of the room.
I’m not quite sold on the accent wall at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I like the whole bedroom/bathroom combination much more than before. And it’s not just getting rid of the lime green — the white walls in the bedroom had a lot of poorly-camouflaged Spackle-filled holes, and it was pretty clear the room hadn’t been painted since the house was built (a fact further evidenced by the way the walls sucked up the new paint). But I love love love the bathroom and I really don’t feel that strongly about the bedroom. Maybe it’s because the dark color against the light color makes it much easier to see that my edges are not perfectly straight. Or maybe we just need to update the curtains (the new paint only serves to highlight that the ones that came with the house are Awful with a capital A) and furniture and get some art on the walls. In any event, we’ll be living with it for a while and we’ll see how it grows on us.
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