I tried out Behr’s “Ashes” and actually love it. It’s a warm and complicated gray that might be the perfect backdrop for a DIY leather headboard and some dark linens. Oh snap, switching things up. It looks a little khaki in this sunset light, but is definitely lovely all day and night long.

I’m still trying to work with the original envisioned palette of navy, warm browns, gray, black and white. Using the warm wood tones, caramel leather, a healthy dose of gray and a navy duvet will hopefully all go down smoothly with a few other surprises thrown in.

It’s my one day off this week. Can we finish painting this wall and the front door? Maybe…if The Boy will get out of bed. Wake up, it’s project time.

I have all these big plans for the master bedroom redo (version 5.0) but things are going a bit awry. What a sad bed. Enjoy these fascinating mid point shots of progress despair.

I had convinced myself that I wanted a dark navy blue wall in the master bedroom with a warm caramel colored leather headboard and some fabulous light gray linens. Well I tested out “Deep Space” from Behr which seemed promising “in theory” but turned out a little too peacocky and dark for my taste. I know, right! I was the one who totally wanted a dark navy pretty desperately. Unfortunately, now that it’s on the wall for real it feels way too dark and not at all what I had hoped for. It also might be a tad too matchy matchy with the black wall in the guest bedroom.

Oh well. No big deal.

Luckily it was easily painted over with my new tester of “Ash”. Which, BTW, I just finished putting up and is looking very promising. Hopefully it stays looking like the shit when the sun is out.

So, bedroom plans are changing. I’m having a couple of fantasies about building some things. Furniture type things…