Choosing Venice

Some time ago we wrote about our choices for colors in our renovated master bedroom. Here's the report on what we chose. As a brief reminder, here's the original color of our bedroom walls:

The four colors schemes I chose came from photos of Oslo, Paris (both pictured above), Prague, and Venice. After much conversation and meditation, Sara chose Venice, a bi-color scheme inspired by this photo taken in that city (it hangs next to the bedroom door):

The ochre tone for three out of four walls came from the stucco walls high up in the photo's background. Here's the contrast between the white of new drywall, the original paint job (left side), and the new ochre (right side):

The accent color is a pine-green tone inspired by the shutters and the boat covers in the photo. We chose the wall behind our bed as the accent wall, partially because the darker color will better offset the lighter hues of our homemade headboard:

As usual, every project brings with lessons with it. We knew most of the rigors of painting, but I got acquainted with the pains of cutting the corner of a room where two different colors meet. No matter how many times I go over it with each color, it's never quite perfect:

So when you visit and take the tour, you're not allowed to peer too closely at the corners.

After only three days of shuffling furniture, moving plastic, and hiking up and down ladders, we have our Venice Bedroom. The colors remind us of that weekend in the Sinking City; the photos on the wall remind us of four stops on our twelve-country tour in 2006. The photos above the bed are from Oslo, Paris, and Prague, from left to right:

Vive la europa!

~emrys