Painting - Phase 1

So it's begun...painting our master bedroom.  Last night my sweet husband taped the wall and all the windows behind our bed as well as moved a majority of our furniture into the middle of the bedroom, bathroom and closet.

One of the best things about painting projects is that Fred enjoys taping and dislikes painting, while I LOVE to paint and dislike taping.  So together we make the perfect painter.  LOL  It might take Fred a while to tape, but I never have to do any touch-ups on molding or baseboards.  It's wonderful.  I guess it's one of the perks of being married to an engineer!

Since we had to move our furniture one of the pieces we had to move was our bed.  So, last night our bed was directly under the fan and the foot of our bed was 5ft away from the door versus the regular 10ft.  So, as we're drifting off to sleep Fred says to me, "You will be finished painting tomorrow, right?"  Yes, of course I say, but why?  Because right now our bedroom definitely ISN'T "feng shui" and it's really throwing me for a loop.  I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight. I'm not kidding when I say that I laughed so hard I almost feel out of the bed. 

Fred was right.  We were not in our "normal" place in the room and we both didn't sleep very well.   I don't know if our bedroom is really "feng shui", but I do know that nothing was in it's usual place.  I didn't know Fred knew about "feng shui", did you?

Well I started and finished painting "the wall" today and everything is back in it's rightful position, less the silk curtains.  Those will have to wait until the whole room is finished.  Fred will be oh so happy tonight.

What a difference paint makes and it's only on one wall. I can't wait to see the final product!  I'm already talking about how I want to paint the master bath. I'm very fortunate that my husband supports my love for painting and will tape every room in the house as long as I give him a heads up.

The Next Steps:
Phase 2 - Painting the other 3 1/2 walls a dark cream, hopefully later this week or this weekend
Phase 3 - Stenciling the brown wall with the dark cream, hopefully sometime next week (it's going to take at least 1, maybe 2 full days to complete)

Here is a before picture....

Here is a picture as of today, though it really doesn't do it justice