julialainephotography: Busy weekend...

I can't believe that I have lived in our house for almost 6 years and never painted my bedroom. In fact, with the exception of our foyer, it is the only room in the entire house (basement included) that I had not painted. I just always thought of a reason I couldn't paint it yet... I didn't like my bedspread, I wanted the ceiling scraped (I have a popcorn ceiling in there), I want to wait till I get new carpet so I wouldn't care if I spilled paint on the existing carpet, I needed window treatments... there was just always something.

Last week I wandered into Restoration Hardware one day at lunch and fell in love with some drapes that were 60% off - which is about the only way I can afford something in that store. Unfortunately they didn't have them in stock, so I walked out empty handed, but at least now with the knowledge of exactly what color I needed; they were a kind of a light Tuscany gold - the drapes were a heavy velvety texture and the shade would be perfect with my existing bedroom set. So I headed across the street to Pottery Barn, and they had some light sheer linen drapes that were PERFECT! Exactly the right color and much lighter in texture and feel. Though they were not on sale, the regular price was still cheaper than the 60% sale price drapes at Restoration Hardware.

Next step was to get the paint matched at Home Depot and I set up shop in my bedroom Saturday morning and got it done in about 4 hours. There are two windows and three doors and crown molding, so all the trim work took awhile, but by lunchtime I was cleaning up. It looks SO good. I was thinking a few weeks ago that I wanted to replace my comforter, but now with the new walls and drapes it looks made for the room.

If only the whole weekend had gone that well... I was hanging the curtain rods and standing on a metal step stool, on the second step up when one of the legs gave way. The stool went one way and I went the other, landing on my back and hitting my head (hard) against the side of my bedside table. My back is fine, but two days later and my head is still ringing and my neck feels like I have whiplash. Come to think of it, I probably suffered a minor concussion but there's not much to do about it now other than to keep taking the Excedrin. After all my Saturday activities, I thought I would sleep great that night, but after only two hours I woke up with some pretty severe heartburn. At about 1am I was debating whether to call 911 or my parents. It ended up being neither, Daisy and I just roamed the house moaning for the next couple of hours, and by about 3am I was able to get back to sleep. Other than 5 loads of laundry and making chocolate chip cookies with M, Sunday existed of nothing more than trying to get rid of a headache and the remaining aches from heartburn. The girls were bored out of their minds with no friends in town but some weekends, they just need to figure out how to entertain themselves (or at least that's what my mom always said to me when I was their age and bored too).

But - hey, at least I got the bedroom done!

Speaking of whiplash - on a completely unrelated note - I was just catching up on Ree and have GOT TO TRY THESE! Man, I am so sick of rice around here - and these look equal parts of yummy and easy. Gotta love that combo!

Comments

The room looks fabulous...sorry you had to almost kill yourself to get it done, though!

Posted by: Donna | June 04, 2008 at 09:53 AM

Love it.....I paint everything in my home as well....I'm due for some changes, but may wait until Fall. Wondering if you might be willing to send me your addy? One never knows what goodies may appear! *wink*

Posted by: Steffie | June 03, 2008 at 06:03 AM