“He’s all in”

I previously mentioned that the dog patio was Craig and my second project together. Painting his master bedroom was the first. On my second or third visit, he mentioned that he wanted to repaint his bedroom and he wanted it to be romantic and cheerful. So I go to Google and search for romantic colors and essentially come up with red and pink. Neither were acceptable to him. He didn’t want yellow, blue, green or orange so we were pretty much left with purple. Now that happens to me my favorite color. We went to Lowe’s and picked up 3 color samples and painted on the wall.

We both thought the lower right color was the most cheerful shade. I thought having all 4 walls that color might be a bit much so the wall with the least light would get the lower left shade.

I did the rolling and Craig did the trim edges. As we were covering brown, we had to paint it white before painting it Wisteria. We got 3 walls done before I left for my NC beach vacation. Craig finished the 4th wall while I was gone.

Natalie was dog siting Carli while I was gone and she texted me and asked me why Carli had white paint on her tail. I sent her a picture of the bedroom walls. Her response was “He is all in!!” He is and so am I. I had to go to Iowa for my brother’s funeral as soon as I got back from NC, so I didn’t see the bedroom for 10 days. While I was in Iowa, Craig said he was working on a surprise. When I got there, I found he had painted the bed headboard and footboard to go with the walls.

The ironwork at the top has been painted purple and backed by purple inset which Craig made. A man of many talents.

While this room would not work for many/most couples, it fits us perfectly.

We feel so lucky to have found a partner for healthy, active, aging filled with love, laughter and so many projects to keep us busy.