We bought a lamp.
This lamp, in fact:
For our bedroom.
Now, our bedroom has been a bit of a dilemma.
Our bedroom has been rearranged somewhere in the neighborhood of fourteen trillion times.
Our bedroom has been painted so many times it is actually smaller than when we bought the house.
The paint on possession was white with a pink undertone. Did you know there are about a thousand different whites? There are. And I’ve not managed to move into a single house that had a white that I found attractive.
So the white-pink, the whink – if you will, needed to go.
First was the wheat color with the green accent wall. This unfortunate choice left us looking like pathetically devoted Oakland A’s fans.
So we covered up the accent wall with the wheat. Except I had let myself be talked into a semigloss paint. I am unclear why this happened. I hate semigloss paint.
So the wheat color was shimmery. Like a lame-ass teenaged vampire. So clearly that had to go.
Next was a dark green that ended up looking like the felt on a pool table.
Next was a light green that resembled nothing so closely at it resembled mint chip ice-cream.
This is the color of the room now.
The bed has been in no fewer than four locations. Which is a pretty mean feat when you consider we have only two usable walls.
There was a desk. Then there was no desk. Then there was a desk again. Then there was a catamaran. Then there was an armchair. Then there was no armchair.
Then there was a round table.
I like the round table. A lot. So much that I’m tempted to write “alot” just you can see how serious I am.
The round table just SCREAMS for a hanging lamp.
We had one. We used it. It wasn’t brilliant.
Then I found the lamp pictured above.
Which is now hanging gracefully over the round table.
Note the color. Rich taupe-y brown with gold leaves.
I can’t tell you how desperately this does NOT go with walls the color of mint chip ice-cream.
Now, it’s not news to anyone that the bedroom needs to be a different color. It’s just that I love my husband and I really do intend to get years of wear out of him and he now develops a nervous twitch at the sight of brushes and stir sticks.
So I’ve been waiting for his paint-induced PTSD to subside before insisting that the room change color again.
But now, with the new lamp…the time is nigh.
Plus, I have some seriously good medication left over from December. So if Himself freaks out too much, I’m just gonna slip a few Norco into his shredded wheat.
Because I love him that damn much.
Damn… I can’t see your lamp. Something about locked google plug ins? I wish I could have seen the Catamaran though. I bet that was a good look. I have turned to white. Pure white. It’s the only way I can move forward. Any other tint/colour might see our house go another ten years before painting. Which of course The Agronomist is secretly hoping for.
Dana
Sherwin Williams Macadamia, SW6142, will look great with your lamp, and probably with everything else in your room, too. My second choice, especially if the room is small and/or doesn’t get a lot of natural light, would be Sherwin Williams Believable Buff, SW6120. I do this for a living. ;-) Good luck rallying your husband to the paint store, and by the way, great lamp!
That is a knockout lamp!
And where on earth did you keep the catamaran?
Scratch that. I don’t want to know…
A catamaran?!?! What? ;p
That lamp is pretty enough to change the room color for. For sure!!
nothing says love like some narcotics. it’s true.
i’ve done the same with paint colors in one room, but it’s only ONE wall. and if I lived anywhere close to you, I’d paint for ya. I love to paint. odd, i know.
I would decorate a room around that lamp. Gorgeous.
And it was sooo great seeing you the other weekend! Thanks again for making the trek!
I need to invent a giant LCD wall that has three knobs that you can set the color of your wall with the turns of dials.
It would be really freaking expensive, but I’m pretty sure there’s a set of husbands (not that I’m thinking of anyone specifically *coughhimselfcough*) who would pay just about anything for this technology.
I am exhausted to the point of never ever wanting to paint or buy another lamp. But that is a seriously cute lamp…worth all the effort in the end.
Promise.
You can’t spell paint without … “pain.”
I’m in awe. We’ve lived in this house, our new house, for 4 years now. I have yet to paint a single wall. My bedroom is the same as it was when we moved in (complete with boxes ha). We have done NOTHING to make this house ours. Our YARD has had more improvements than the house has!!!! I am in awe of your motivation. Where do you find it? I sit here and think about painting and I picture having to sand the walls because the idiots we bought the house from used CEILING TEXTURE on the WALLS. *sigh* Why would anyone do that?? As a result, unless *I* sand them myself, it’s never going to get done. Because my husband is the most unmotivated person in the history of ever. So…share the wealth!! Where do you get your motivation?? Cause I need about a dump-truck load!!
Gold leaf the walls. Problem solved. Plus with the lamp on you’d be able to see your house from space.
BONUS!!
Forget macadamia.
I think Sherwin Williams should create a new shade made WITH Norco.
You just lick the walls and love.
The time IS nigh, after all.
And a master bedroom should be a sanctuary.
(So I’ve been told.)
Lori, you have such a beautiful home I’m surprised to read of the history of poor paint choices.
But I’m not surprised by your lamp choice, which is gorgeous. I’m with Rebecca, the buff or macadamia would be very nice.
If Himself wants to chase The Dude, I’ll come paint. I love to paint…other people’s houses.
I am in love with that lamp. I would SOOO repaint/redecorate/whatever around that lamp.