New Headboard

It finally happened. I got a headboard. Picking out a headboard was one of my birthday presents, along with painting my walls and getting a new mattress, so of course I went crazy over it. The two I was deciding between were both from Ikea, and neither of them really seemed to be the perfect match for me. Without losing hope, my mom continued to search Craigslist to find one. And alas, one morning, I came downstairs to make my breakfast and there it was, a picture printed out of this baby. I couldn't have been happier. It has such a unique pattern to it and was the perfect "inbetween" choice of the two from Ikea. So my mom and brother went and got it for me the following weekend right in time for my birthday. Then they brought it home. The seller on Craigslist had listed it as a full sized bed frame, but it certainly was made for a queen. The headboard stuck out about 3 inches more than it should have! Bummer, right? Actually, not really. :) The headboard had come along with a bed frame and a footboard which were queen sized as well, but the headboard was the only thing I could save. Now, it sits tucked behind my bed and I couldn't be happier. The last thing left to do is paint it black. As you can see from the photo, its a brownish rustic color- not exactly what I was hoping for. Also, there are several nicks and rust spots on the frame so we got special paint that will eliminate the rust and cover over the nicks to end up with the perfect color. It's still the same color for now, but once we have a free weekend (for once) and the weather is beautiful, we'll be sure to grab out the paint and paintbrushes.

(p.s.: see the new wall color? I'm lovin' it... queue the McDonald's commercial.)

-Rachel :)

And The Winner Is...

PLUM SMOKE! :)

I don't have much explaining for this choice... just that it's awesome! We did this a while ago (March 6th), so sorry for the delay :/. But here are some pictures of the process:

My two best friends came over to help me start painting. This is what happens when you give us paint brushes. :)

See how well it matches my black and white photos?! My Mom was super happy with that because that's the exact color in the photo she wanted me to go with.

After peelin' off all the tape.

So yeah, those were pretty much "in progress" photos. My room has been such a mess lately and I've had so much going on that I haven't really finished yet, but I"ll be posting more soon!

-Rachel :)

The Great Debate

Picking a paint color is harder than I thought. I decided to take advantage of the beautiful day last Sunday and go with my Dad to pick up some paint samples and make my final decision. I knew coming in that I wanted to get Porpoise because I basically fell in love with the color swatch, but I wasn't sure if it would be too dark, so I got the next brighter shade as well.



My Dad also insisted on getting tape, so I (unevenly) taped up boxes on my walls and got going on the paint.

I mainly wanted to do it on two seperate walls was to get the feel for the colors. I put them next to my black and white picture to see how it would look, and then next to the flower picture to see how the color would look with all of the colors. And this is the final product:

So... there were some unagreements. First off, my Mom kept saying it would make the room to dreary. Then I started thinking about it and realize she was a little right. Plus, the grays were too light- it would too WAY too bright and in your face with all of my white furniture. So, off we went to find a purpley gray color. I already had a paint chip of Behr's Plum Smoke and I thought that it went well with the colors in my room, and was dark enough to keep the room warm. My sister took me this time to get the paint samples, and while we were there, we also decided to grab a darker color that caught our eye. And this is what it looks like on my wall:

Plum Smoke (the lighter one) looks taupey/brown, right? Yeah, not what I was going for. At first I was a little dissapointed, but after a while, the paint sorta grew on me. I thought to myself "maybe this is the type of color I need, maybe gray would be too cold, maybe this will warm up my room"... just a bunch of maybes. When it's daylight, it looks gray, but when I have my lights on, it looks brown. I also decided to see if my fabrics would go well with it, and they do!

It's close to the color, without being too matchy matchy. And, if you look at the color long enough, it looks a little purple...right? Well we'll just have to see how this all turns out...

-Rachel :)