Bedroom Paint Makeover - Our First Time Painting a Room!

The first project for our new rental home was to paint the upstairs bedroom.  The previous tenants had painted it a deep, dark red and the owner of our home had painted the trim a cream color, which the tenants kept.  

I'm not a big fan of red, especially in a bedroom, so I knew that the red paint would be the first thing to go.  Thankfully our landlord was kind enough to let us paint the house any color we wanted and provided us with a ton of painting supplies.

Kevin and I had never painted a room before, so we got some great advice from the ladies at Home Depot.  They suggested a grey primer to cover the red before we painted the room with the color we had chosen.  We went with a fun blue color to match our new yellow and tan bedding.  We also bought white paint that we were going to use to paint the window trim and baseboards.

 This is what the bedroom looked like before, with the previous tenant's paint color and furniture.

The back wall is wallpaper, which is crazy hard to take off so we decided to leave it on as well.  Here is how the closet doors looked before.

Step one was to apply the painter's tape to every wall and door frame, then apply the primer on the red part of the door and on the walls.

Here's Kevin painting the grey primer.  He did a great job for never having painted before!

Grey primer on the walls- finished!

Here are the doors with primer over the red trim.

After letting the grey paint dry overnight, I started to paint the walls blue.  I did one coat with the paint roller and then went back over any spots I missed with a smaller roller and a brush.  Next, I used an angled paint brush to paint the edges of the wall up to the blue painter's tape.

This photo shows the grey paint around the edges.

This photo shows where I went back and filled in the edges with the angled brush.

After letting the blue paint dry overnight, I came back the next day and took off all of the painter's tape.  I was going to start painting the cream trim white, until I realized how big of a job it was going to be!  Not only would I need to paint the baseboards, closet and windows, but I'd also have to paint the railing around the stairs, the trim where the wallpaper is, the stairs' hand railing and the sides of the stairs.  It turned out to be too huge of an undertaking, so Kevin found a can of the cream paint in the basement (thankfully) and I just used it to touch up the existing cream paint.

Here's the finished product!

Be on the lookout for pictures of all of the decorated rooms in our new home in an upcoming blog post!