Monday, November 2, 2009

Chocolate Deluxe

At the beginning of the year, I set out to paint and decorate one room per month. Ha! It's November, and we've completed three bedrooms and one bathroom. Oh, well it's better than nothing.

The first room we painted was the master bedroom. If I had endless free time and energy, I would probably re-paint this, as I wasn't entirely pleased, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

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It's probably too dark for most people, but (as if you can tell) I LOVE chocolate brown. And, it serves another purpose of helping Daniel sleep. He works a night shift half the time, so the dark walls combined with the black-out drapes help him sleep during the day even though we have a large window in the bedroom.

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This scripture writing on a wooden box canvas was my attempt at being creative.

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On another side of the room we have some wonderful family photos to display, courtesy of my friend Allison in South Carolina. She's so talented, and I'm so grateful to her for these images!

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Just outside of the master bathroom is a sitting area. I'll be honest and tell you that these chairs are more often used as clothes drying racks than their intended purpose, but it was a nice thought.

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Also in the sitting area is a collection of items from our wedding: our engagement photo, my bridal bouquet in a shadow box frame and our wedding guest sign-in book, which was actually a framed and matted wedding invitation. I know the red doesn't even begin to match the room's decor, but it's the sentimental effect that I appreciate.

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Now, I'm off to enjoy my clean room!

3 comments:

Casey Davison said...

I love that box with the scripture. Very nice.

And now, you've just given me an idea of what I can do with our wedding stuff. I had it all on a shelf in the dining room at the other house, but it's still in a box....and I hated that! And our bedroom walls had nothing on them! YEAH!! Thanks.

Katie said...

You can come and redecorate my house anytime ;)

Christine said...

I love the wall color. We plan to do an accent wall in our room, but haven't found the right chocolate yet. What color did you use?