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Accessorizing the Master Bedroom

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In the last year we have painted our master bedroom a color that I just absolutely love!

The color is Behr Ultra Pyramid Gold. It was a long road to this color. We first picked out a color at the store, bought 2 gallons of it, brought it home, started painting, and I hated it. It looked like a flesh or makeup color–not attractive. I decided I would rather eat the cost of the paint instead of living with a color that I hated. We then discovered that the store would let you buy  small 7.5 oz trial sizes. Yahoo! We bought 3 different colors, and finally found this gold color that is just what I wanted.
I have  so learned that a color can look drastically different in your home with it’s unique lighting, than what it did at the store.  A bamboo color I had picked for our living room ended up looking like a fluorescent  green, and so our living room with very high ceilings had to have three additional coats of paint to cover it up. I have learned my lesson!
Anyway, now the room is painted, and decluttered.

master bedroom disaster

Remember this!? Yikes! Anyway, that’s history, and I am ready to put the finishing touches on the room.

My windows have been bare, and I really didn’t want long curtains that collect dust and have to be vacuumed frequently since I have asthma.  However, the windows  needed some color and to look more “finished,” and so I settled on colorful valences.

 

My lamps were kind of  “blah” so I thought I would try and give them a facelift.

I tried ribbon, flowers and fabric, but they looked like a bad arts and crafts project. So I switched them out with some lamps from another room, which I’ll show you in a minute.

I needed something to hang on the empty wall above the bed. So I pulled this wreath out of storage and added some warmer color flowers and a ribbon to tie together the colors in the room. You’ll see it in my after photos.

 This clock which I thought worked well with the colors and decor in the room was a mere $6.00 at a discount store.

I bought some pillows at Target to complement and unite the color theme in the room. I am not a fan of 15 pillows on the bed that have to be removed at night; I’m just too practical for that. For me though, a couple of pillows are just perfect.

Ok, here are my after shots:

 

The curtains make it so warm and cozy looking, and no one who knows me will be surprised  that they are plaid, because I love plaid and stripes!

 

 

 

These lamps look sooooo much better than the plain ones with cream shades, and the wreath adds so much cheerful color.
I love how it looks now, so warm and colorful and inviting. I am now sold on the fact that accessorizing is a must to add those finishing touches to a room that make it really inviting.

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  6. The paint color complements the color of the bed covering and pillows so beautifully! Great choices. I really like your blog – it is realistic (rather than showing practically impossible projects, etc) and the photos are lovely!

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  7. How beautiful! Yellow is especially hard to get right, it seems. I’m glad you found the perfect shade for your room!

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  8. Looks great Margo! I love the new valences and accessories. I must admit though that that “flesh” colored paint looks great in my basement!! 🙂 Hehehehe!
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  11. Soo super pretty.. Hello there.. I’m following ya officially from made by you monday blog hop today..Lovely blog you have here.Can’t wait to read more.. Hope you can stop by & visit me sometime / follow back.. TY So much.. Have a great week.Marilyn from http://www.theartsygirlconnection.com/ . Great creativity here. :))

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  13. I love the colors you chose. Our master bedroom is similar with furniture and that pretty burgundy. Instead of gold, tho, we have a mushroom taupe wall and touches of green. i know those aren’t ‘popular” with decorators now, but you have to go with what you love! Good job on yours – it looks relaxing and tasteful!

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  16. How fun! Looks like you really put a lot of work into! So glad you found a color you love! Stopping by from Hope Studios link up!

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  17. Your room looks so pretty! I’m dying to tackle my room…just haven’t found the right stuff – at the right (CHEAP) price!

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  18. I love the colors you used. I have those same tones in my master – only the walls are white. I’ve been thinking about painting them – well, asking hubby to paint, that is. You have inspired me. Hubby thanks you. hehehe

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  22. It looks fabulous! Of course I may be a little partial since that is the same color as my master. It is so warm and just makes me happy. Hopefully you agree.

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  28. Awesome job, and is one of the pillows made from a valance? If not, it looks like it matches perfectly. I have very similar if not the same valances in our office. Love the colors, looks so warm and inviting. Now if only I could get my dressers to be as clear as yours. Thanks for sharing.

    Christa
    from http://www.controllingcraziness.blogspot.com

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  29. That is almost exactly the color of our master bedroom, except we went truly bold and painted a darker, very warm accent wall. I have had a love/hate relationship with out wall color since the day we painted it, but it’s slowly starting to grow on me. I think the key is accessorizing with minimal color everywhere else so that too many things don’t jump out at you all at once. But I appreciated seeing your post and the things you’ve done with a very similar color.

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  30. WOW! That is beautiful! I love it. We used all Behr paint in our house when we painted a few years ago and we loved it. I bought many different samples to try from them. 3 different samples of yellow to be exact but I never found one that I LOVED. Yours is beautiful though. I really need to declutter and tidy up my bedroom.

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  33. I am loving these beautiful colours in your gorgeous room. This post is so inspirational. I would love it if you would share this today at our WIW linky party. I hope you can join us!

    Paula
    ivyandelephants.blogspot.com

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