The Project

Oh yes, it started out innocently enough. Let's go take a look at some fabric - I want to recover the comforter. This stupid comforter set has been a bane to me ever since we got it three years ago or so. Yeah, it looked nice enough. The problem was that the fabric was shiny and slippery, so the darned thing constantly fell off the bed. Further annoying was that the top of the bed skirt was the same material, so the mattress was always sliding off the box spring. So here we are looking at fabric and Pat says he's sick of the color scheme (maroon and gold) so let's check out Bed Bath and Beyond. I had never been in this store and now I'm sorry we found it. I love it! We found some nice (badly needed) bathroom rugs. The old ones were shot.
We found a new comforter and sheet set, which then made it necessary to have new window coverings. The new comforter is sort of a robin's egg blue with taupe and brown stripes.
Oh - now we have to paint that gold wall behind the bed, as it'll clash. Well, hell, if we paint that wall, we should paint the entire bedroom. It certainly needs it. We picked out a taupe color (think cafe au lait) for the one wall and three shades lighter in the same palette for the rest of the room.
We were sitting around the house this morning about to get going when El Camino called. It seems Pat was supposed to work 8 to noon and they had neglected to tell him. SHIT!
So I spent three hours moving furniture away from the walls, etc.
After I cleaned out my armoire I discovered it was filthy, so scrubbed it out with Murphy's Oil soap. Ditto the back of my dresser.
Pat came home with paint, ate lunch and we got to work. After scrubbing all of the walls with TSP we were finally ready to paint.
Seven hours later the paint was done and it looks great. We are absolutely exhausted!
Tomorrow we vacuum around the edges, put the switchplate covers back, hang the new curtain rod and put the furniture back.
I can't wait to put it all back together and see how it all comes together.
Beware. A simple trip to the store can turn into a MAJOR project!