The first time we painted the room, I chose a gray that read not-gray-at-all on our walls. I loved the color, but it just wasn't what I wanted for our room.
After living with it for a while, I decided I needed to go more gray...and I did.
I liked that color a lot, and then I even rearranged and painted again.
After all that, I liked our room, but I didn't love it. I wanted to love it. And apparently, step #1 in loving our room was switching up our nightstands. Our old ones were great, but looked too small next to our king-sized bed. I fixed that situation by making over some Craigslist finds.
Step #2 was choosing a new gray for our walls. I had a major itch to go dark in our bedroom. I thought it'd really up the cozy factor and give the space that extra something it had been missing. I headed to Home Depot and brought home a bunch of swatches. Once the swatches were home and against the wall in our room, I easily narrowed things down to my top three. Those colors were then taped to our bedroom wall for a few days. It was obvious to me which color was my favorite {gut reaction based on undertones that showed up once the swatch went up on our wall}, but I was scared to pull the trigger. I never painted any wall that dark before.
Eventually I got sick of staring at the swatches and wanted to see results. I headed to the store and bought a gallon of Martha Stewart's Zinc {made with Glidden Duo paint}.
I had hubby kindly remove our mounted TV, which I hated because of the positioning, thanks to some plumbing in the center of that wall. I also patched up some holes with quick-dry spackle.
Then I cleared out furniture, pushed the remaining stuff to the middle of the room and started cutting in.
After all that fun, I got to rolling...and really saw things come to life.
The darker color took two coats to cover completely, but it was worth it. I love how our white trim and light furniture pop against the bold walls. I haven't even started to accessorize or put our room back together, but I couldn't wait to share our new wall color with you guys. I didn't want to wait a few weeks until our room is "reveal" ready. What can I say...lately, things have been taking me foreverrrr to finish. ;)
Anyone else get so excited to share something that you break all blogger rules and post un-styled photos taken at night?! {Please tell me I'm not the only bad blogger!}
How do you guys feel about dark walls...yay or nay?
