Accent troubles and lessons learned

The master bedroom is not yet complete. The original plan was to paint 3 walls in Olympics Cozy Corner, which Mike is rolling in the above photo, and then paint the fourth wall, the bed wall, in Admiralty (the dark swatches). The colors do look fantastic together, and we felt the oversized master was a great place to go bold. But as we threw on a bigger swatch to see how we still felt, and feeling the walls coming in with the new paint, we had reservations.

1. The room is already darkening, in a good way, so would this uber dark wall have an adverse effect?
2. Cutting clean corner lines is difficult. Any mistake is going to be shouted out to us. Every. Single. Day.
3. Coordinating furniture would become more complicated.

It was the latter two issues that gave us the most pause. If we didn't like the accent wall, we could always prime over and paint. Yes, it's time and money, but we were willing to try it out. But the more we inspected the corners and thought about how we'd have to decorate, we felt less and less excited about Admiralty. We may still incorporate that color somewhere, even in this room, but we didn't want all of our decorating and furniture decisions to be dominated by that wall.

So, all corners and walls will be "Cozy."

But in this process, we realized we are doing things reverse order. What we should have done was paint the trim first. Why? We could tape a little above the trim, caulk in the gaps, take up the tape, and then not really fuss over clean lines, because we'll just paint over mistakes with the wall paint. By doing the walls first, we have to basically prep twice. And progress has slowed. Now we have to allow the walls to cure enough that we can tape over it in order to caulk and paint the trim. 

Lesson learned? Paint your trim before your walls. Grumble.