Bedrooms
So, do you think men are naturally drawn to cooler colors? The husband and I are planning on redecorating our bedroom in a month or two. We are closing on the house soon and decided to celebrate by fixing the bedroom. Currently it has bright yellow walls, baby blue trim, and a country season border. Don't yell at me, the room was like that when we moved in. The rest of the house is very netural and we have decided to leave it alone for about a year.
We have compromised on the colors, a red for the walls and a brown for the trim. We are going to get some samples and paint a section of the wall to make sure we like it. This is so exciting for me, I usually have a lot of trouble envisioning something, but now I have visions dancing through my head (much to the husbands horror). I want him to make us a headboard that can mount on the wall to save a little floor space and really serve as a focal point of the room. I am also trying to figure out a way to creat a little seating area. The room is large but it is much longer than it is wide, which causes some problems with furniture placing.
I would really like to put up crown modling, but according to the husband the ceiling is slanted and that would be a bad idea. I asked him if he could fix that and he just looked at me!
posted by VJ @ 5:59 AM
6 Comments:
Well at least your husband is handy enough with tools to not blink an eye about making the headboard. Mine would flat out start laughing at me.
Have fun painting!
I will always be grateful that my dad didn't teach me a thing about being a handyman around the house. I can just play ignorant and let the wife do what she wants with the house while I kick back with a beer and watch the ballgame on the tube. My hands are very soft because I've spent my life as either a radio disc jockey or a library person. No rough hands due to carpentry work. Speaking for myself I couldn't care less what colors the walls are. I'm easy...but most women who know me already are hip to that. ;-)
There is something to be said for calloused hands.......
I didn't just "look" at her, it was a subtle yet compelling eye contact that transmitted the simple yet complete message of "I don't think so!".
And I'd like to make the correction on the statement that the ceilings are slanted. They aren't slanted, they have a curve caused by the ceiling beams for the attic having bowed from weight. If you look at the ceiling/wall line it looks like a smile. It's throughout the house, all floors. The book cases and cabinets lean out from the walls. The refrigerator looks really bad, it leans so much.
And I COULD fix it, by tearing out the flooring of the attic and the ceilings of the 2nd floor, nailing new and flat beams to the old ones and using a saw to trim off the curved part, then putting new flooring on and new ceiling sheet rock and then floating and taping, etc. It would take me months.
Gosh I am SOOOO glad I am not handy with tools. More power to you Paul. I am an expert with a remote control.
You just have to love the character of an older home! Just remember its not an imperfection, but history and character... and Paul shouldn't have to 'fix' character.
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