Our bedroom has paint! I feel like everything in finally coming together. Thanks to the balcony our room gets lots of natural light, so I decided I should take advantage and go bold and pick a really dark color. I had my heart set on Navy, it took a little convincing to get Seth on board, but eventually I got him over to the dark side (cheesy pun intended).

Normally I would suggest one buy paint samples and test out a couple colors before committing, but I did not follow my own advise. Our local Ace Hardware was going out of business so they were having a fantastic sale on Benjamin Moore paint. It really seemed wrong not to take advantage, so we decided to pull the trigger. We chose a color called Deep Royal, it is super super dark, I love it!

Before the color went on the wall a lot of prep work had to happen, soooo much spackle. We replaced the base caps throughout the room and had to fill a lot of holes from old cable cords, and telephone lines…which is actually kid of weird to see in a house, a home phone is so rare these days. And as much as I appreciate the look of natural wood, it’s kind of limited to flooring for me, wood trim is just too much. 

We primed the trim and the walls. Because we were doing such a dark color we went with a grey primer for a better base.Once the walls were primed it kind of felt like we were done, the grey looked really nice. But I think anything would have been better than what it looked like previously.

No matter how great the brand of paint, I have never gotten away with one coat. I had high hopes this time, but of course it took two. The walls just drank in the first coat. The left is the first coast, it almost looks greyish charcoal, the second coat is on the right side, it takes too coats to really see the color.

I’ll admit I was a little scared and almost backed out and chose a lighter shade, but I’m really glad we went for it. The end result is amazing. The color is super dramatic, it’s going to be a great back drop for our furniture, and most importantly it makes my beautiful light fixture pop even more.