Master Bedroom - Complete Overhaul {Part I}

I'm sure if you are my friend on Facebook that you've already seen the transformation of my master bedroom and bath.

I posted a before and after of it but I didn't share the details of everything I did. I'm going to attempt some coherent sounding posts with possible tutorials on some of my projects...if not actual tutorials than at least some crappy pictures of the process so that you'll get the idea of what I did.

Here's a before of the bedroom.

i actually did a post on those silly brown oblong pillows once. and this is where i did a tutorial on how to create inexpensive and adorable (in my opinion) silhouettes.

big boy thinks he's a studly photo bomber.

What you don't see is at the foot of the bed is usually where my hope chest sits. It's made to look like cedar and is actually cedar lined, but the outside is total crap. I mean, total "came in a box and had to be put together" stuff. Not solid wood. The TV armoire is also not solid wood.

Oh. And neither are the night stands. Or the book case. Wow. That's sort of embarrassing. Oh well.

I guess today I'll just show you the first step in the process...paint. I wanted to change it up. My bedroom has been done in shades of green since 2000. I'm kind of tired of green after 12 years. I've done some changes to try to liven it up before and had some awesome (sorta) before and afters until Google+ deleted all of my pictures, but I've outlined the changes in this post with a picture.

I wanted something peaceful, calm, relaxing, not real bold, but comfortable, easily adaptable to different color combos and zen. 

That shouldn't be too hard, right?  **rolls eyes**

Actually, I already had an idea of what I wanted the color palette to be, so it wasn't super hard I guess. I also scoured Pinterest for weeks before I even knew if I was going to take the project on or not for ideas in case I did do it.

Eventually I chose a nice gray paint that has a blue base called Stormy Day.

Here are the first few pictures of painting in progress. My husband did all of the taping and painting for me. He also painted our master bathroom because I wanted them to match and be done at the same time.

My next renovation post will tackle the formidable job of painting furniture. Painting press board furniture, to be exact. 

If you don't remember my previous forays into the dreaded task of painting any furniture, look here, here and here.

Huh. Know what? I've documented a lot of my crafting crap. I guess I didn't realize that I'd done that much!