There's a picture of it here. Well, that's the guest bedroom, but it was the same color before we repainted it.
Purple walls are a tiny bit problematic. First, it's not very manly. Second, most things that coordinate with it aren't very manly. The Mr. is manly, and this is his bedroom too.
So... "why don't we paint over it?" Yeah, that would be (relatively) easy. The problem is...
we've grown attached.
The Mr. might mind me admitting to the world that he likes his purple, but I feel like I'm right there with him. Never in a million years would I have chosen any shade of purple for my bedroom walls, and given the "coordination dilemmas" it poses I thought I'd want to get rid of it a.s.a.p.
In college there was a whole building whose insides were painted salmon pink. I'm not talking "ahem, ahem, excuse me, I'm pink"--this was full-on, Pepto, hold-on-to-your-retinas pink. Somebody had done a study where they found that particular shade to be the most intellectually stimulating or something.
Turns out, our light-gray-lavender walls do exactly the opposite. It's relaxing... that room feels calm and cool at all times, which is actually a welcome respite from the gold-and-orange tones of the rest of the house. The color is tricky, too--it changes throughout the day, and where there are shadows can look bluer or grayer.
Bottom line, we don't want it to go away. That still leaves the problem of finding a way to "pull the room together" without making it look like a princess playroom. After a couple of years of having the Mr. come around the corner to find me standing in the middle of the room staring at nothing in particular and stuck in a thought circle ("purple." "girly." "blue?" "girly." "purple.") I think I've finally come up with a way to de-privilege (?) the purple but keep it around:
The real newcomers here are the second and third from the left. Fourth from the left represents the curtains we already have. The "accent colors" are the last on the right, and they're coming from two quilts that we leave at the foot of the bed and swap out partway through the year. We already have a red pillow that we use with the red quilt; I think a small pillow or some shams could be swappable items that would mean we'd get two totally different looks from the same palette.
NOW I need to find a comforter cover that brings in the linen-y/khaki/light-brown I'm looking for. Maybe some art, that I can put in a big frame with a yellowy, decorative paper backdrop? I'd appreciate any help finding yellow-and-brown things:
