Some New Moves in the Bedroom

Jason and I have been working on a few things in the bedroom...prompted by the fact we came into a new bed. I promise I won't regale you with our bedroom life, but rather with the life of our bedroom.  Up until the past week, this is what we had been living with...

A fabulous amount of skin colour. Seriously I wish I had've made Jase stand up against it, because it was almost the same colour as him...peachy with a slightly pink undertone haha. We thought it was the little old ladies room, but apparently it was the son's, which makes us question the colour that much more...either that, or question the son. You can't really tell from these pictures (it was night when I look them, and I was trying to hurry before stuff was to get dumped in it) but there is in fact baseboard and trim around the doors and windows, they were just painted the exact same flesh colour as the wall.
   If you're wondering why we didn't do anything to the room if we hated the colour so much, it's because the kitchen was sucking all our attention - like that annoying new baby when you've been the only child for so long. Plus we honestly just didn't care, because we didn't have a proper bed, or dressers, or anything really for the room, so what was the point of making it look nice, to just dump a bunch of crap in it? At least that's what my thinking was.
   Then, I got bored one day while I was sitting 'round doing nothing, and this happened...

 I painted the trim! Well, just on this window, to see how it would look, and we both loved it. It's amazing how much it brightened up the window and surrounding wall. Then Jase took of the doors to the two closets (from the 2nd picture) which we never closed, and it opened up the space even more. Then something amazing happened. Like I mentioned before, we got. a new. bed! A giant, amazing, practically new, double pillow top, king bed! FOR.FREE! Which, given the small changes I had already implemented, got we wanting more than the dismal flesh walls we were currently staring at. So I painted some ideas of paint I already had on hand to see what we liked...

I was originally thinking something dark and moody, since the room gets a ton of natural light from all angles, but then had some misgivings once they got up on the wall. The first two were almost identical, and pretty much black - which neither of us liked. Then we had a muddy gray and a greige. We eventually both decided we liked the sample taped up the best. Which is Martha Stewart's "Seal". But then a funny thing happened on the way to the paint store. I sort of changed my mind...

A light, light gray. It's a great colour, because in some lights (mainly evening) it reads as like an ice blue, so you never know what you're going to get with it. You can see how gross the trim and covers still look in all their fleshy/almond glory, so I finished painting the trim bright white, and we changed out all the outlets and covers, for square and white.
 

The room looks totally different now, and all we've done is paint. It's amazing what a coat of paint, and some new outlets will do for a room. I'll show a wider room view once we get the new bed in, and things go back to normal a bit...because right now everything's still sort of shoved to the middle of the room, and it's a hot mess!