Bedroom Reno Part 2 – Plans and Painting Progress

The bedroom was completely cleared out and washed down.  Xander was a HUGE help with this part as he doesn’t really do painting.

On Sunday my friend Penny came over to help give me a head start on the painting, which was great.   For the past 3 days I’ve been in and out of the bedroom painting.  I have until the beginning of next week to have it ready for our floor to go in.

This is a collage I made of what I have planned for the bedroom.  In the lower right hand corner is a photo I found of a bedroom I liked.   I was searching Flickr looking for inspiration because I was torn about whether I wanted to go bright and colorful or warm and cozy.

Warm and cozy won.

The paint colors I swiped from the company’s website and doesn’t look exactly like the paint itself, but that’s good because I was a bit worried that the brown wasn’t going to be dark enough.

The curtains I am getting for absolute certain, as well as the bed and headboard.   I saw the curtains at Ikea one day I was there and fell in love with them.   I think I have a thing for leafy curtains…   The bed and headboard (Mandal from Ikea) are all about space saving.  If I was going for looks, there are other beds I would have chosen, but our bedroom is small.   We need as much storage space as we can get and the four large drawers in the bottom of the bed will be much better than the empty space and dust bunnies we have had there in the past.

The headboard is also good as it gives us a place to put things we need (lamps, clocks, earplugs, books) but has no drawers and doesn’t leave us a ton of space to collect junk.

All of the decorative items in the collage are just ideas.   The black cupboard is a ‘definitely later when we have money for it’ thing.

Anyhow, on with the painting…

Here are some progress pictures.

Day 1 – Painting With Penny

The chocolate or aardbruin color came out nice and dark, the way I’d hoped.  Our walls are a total pain in the ass though as they have a really deep texture that even the most fluffy of rollers can’t compete with.  So, it all has to be done with a brush.   Not just that but you have to put a ton of paint on the brush and scrub at it to get it into the deeper grooves and pits.  It makes each wall take about 10x longer to do than if I was able to use a roller.

We also got rid of the ungodly pink trim.  THANK GOD!!  There is not much of it left in our house now.

So that’s basically what we got done on the first day.   We got a first coat of lily white on all of the trim and rolled the door (which was also pink on the backside still ugh!)… got part of the chocolate wall done and then called it quits.

Day 2 – More Chocolate

Yesterday I finished the brown wall and put a second coat of paint on the balcony door and trim around the window.  I also did a first attempt at touching up the baseboard as I completely smattered it with brown paint!

In the evening we went out and looked at flooring and decided on grijs eiken (grey oak) wooden floors.   I wanted something dark-ish and grainy… this seems to fit the bill!   The floor will go in on Monday or Tuesday, whenever our faithful handy man is able to come over and give us a hand.

Day 3 (today) – Garen Walls

Today I put a final coat on the white trim and painted the opposite wall to the brown one garen, which when translated means thread.  I guess it’s mean to be a sort of linen color.

I ran out of paint at the end of the afternoon, so there is still a white spot.   Hopefully the new batch of paint will match properly… if it doesn’t, I’ll just give myself a hernia and find a way to move on.   Strangely, the lighter wall was no less of a pain in the ass to paint.  If anything it was more difficult because I couldn’t see the grooves that didn’t get painted properly until the paint dried and darkened a little bit.  Pain in the ass.

It’s all coming along though.   Over the next few days I will be finishing the painting so the floor can go in, and then it’s just a matter of getting the furniture in there and putting everything back together again.