When We Redecorated Our Master Bedroom (part one)
Rule number one in redesigning your bedroom: don’t be me.
I made that mistake last time. Had I taken on a different personality, perhaps the scatterbrained me could have had less influence on the process. Unfortunately, I failed to foresee the adverse effect of this omission on the process, and boy, did it cost us.
First of all, my wife and I never completely settled our differences regarding the layout of the room. Then, of course, we each assumed the other had no opinion on certain features, simply because neither of us bothered to mention them specifically. As you can imagine, these two factors combined to produce one of the most inefficient, stressful and acrimonious redecorating projects in the history of Western civilization.
You think I exaggerate. I do not. To this day, neither of us can look at the compromise color scheme that festoons our room without thinking “divorce.”
It did not help, of course, that I failed to make sufficient note of my preferences before entering into discussions or making actual decisions, such that each visit with a subcontractor became an exercise in redundancy, not to mention self-contradiction.
So if at all possible, be someone other than me as you plan to redesign your bedroom, preferably Martha Stewart.
Next time we’ll examine what happens when two otherwise sane, reasonable people spend all too much time examining paint shades.