Back At It

We are itching to get back to house projects around here.  We've taken a nice break to welcome our baby and now that we're a bit settled we are ready to cross a few more items off of our project list including a second coat of paint on the staircase walls, painting the trim in the hallway, and painting the trim and the walls in the master bedroom and master bathroom.

Speaking of the master bedroom, I recently purchased this duvet cover and shams for our room as an inspiration and starting point to update our room.

I've been eyeing this set for a while now and went to check if it was on sale recently and noticed that it was no longer available online!  Eeps!  So, I called the Crate and Barrel store in Leawood to find out if they had it in stock and they didn't.  But, the very helpful customer service person found it in a store in Ohio so I got it ordered immediately and they even honored the online flat rate shipping -- score!!  So, happy early birthday to me :)

I'm going to use this picture below as a guide for the look of our room.  We already have the dark furniture and were planning to paint our walls anyway.  The only difference will be the color of the coverlet.  Since we're trying to do this room re-do on a budget, I'm going to use our aqua coverlet that is currently on our bed, which might mean we paint our walls the lighter shade of green instead of aqua.

I would love to get rid of our ceiling fan and find a cool pendant fixture like the one pictured, but since our room is upstairs and heat rises I think we'll end up having to keep the fan...wah wah.

Of course we are also going to paint our trim to continue with the look we established on the main level.  At least this time we won't be trying to tackle the biggest area of our house at one time so it should be a pretty painless task.

As much as we would like to dig in to our bathroom and replace practically everything (including the carpet -- yes, we have carpet in our bathroom.  ICK!), we are just going to have to put some bandaids on it until we have the funds to do what we really want to do -- new tile floor, new countertops/sinks/backsplash, new shower doors, new tile around the tub, replace lightfixtures, etc.  For now, we will probably just paint the trim and the walls and call it good. 

I can't wait for this little project to get started.  It will be so nice to have a bedroom that feels "complete" and put together.  Now, on to choosing paint colors!