Yay! Color!

We've got color on most of the walls in the bedroom, and it looks great. No regrets about choosing this particular color. The pictures, once again, don't do it justice; the color looks even better in person.

The mantle and the windows also need some work before a new coat of paint goes on them. Yesterday I took off most of the paint on the top of the mantle, thanks to the heat gun we borrowed from Michael's dad. We hope that sanding down the rest of it will be much easier now. We don't know how much of the paint we'll take off for the rest of the mantle, since we don't want to mess up any of the details in the design, particularly the fluting on the sides.

We've got some cutting in to do on the walls, then painting that last wall after the new windows go in, and then making the mantel and window frames look nicer, and then I think the bedroom will be done. We bought drapes (and yes, they're the purple ones) and the hardware for the bedroom at IKEA on New Year's Day. We were up in Alexandria visiting friends, and since you can't buy IKEA's textiles online, and we were up that way, I wanted to stop and see what they had. I think we'll be making more trips to IKEA as we start decorating.