Here we go again with the home projects... My dear husband hates my projects, and I know when I start one he is ready to strangle me! Mark is the type of person who could really care less about these things for the most part. However I am a project queen and I am not happy unless I am reaking havick on something in the house :) At least it's spring time and he spends most of his weekend on our near perfect yard. That leaves me all alone in the house looking for something to change!
So I know I have been talking about the new mattress and bed room suite, which is the motivation for my new project. When we first moved into this house the previous owners had very strange taste in color. We spent the first day here repainting. Of course moving was a big enough task so we only tackeled the worst colored rooms. My living room and hallway which was pink, the computer room which was an awful navy and burgendy and the back kitchen wall which was Barney purple. Yes, our house had some major color issues, which I have spent the past two years tackling. The other rooms were ok colors so for times sake we left them alone. Since we moved in I have painted the guest bathroom, one guest bedroom and redone the kitchen wall from the orginal beige we painted when we first moved in. Mark hates painting, but I love it for the most part. So I am the one that takes on these projects because like every woman I want my home to be perfect. So now to the project...
We bought the new mattress and brought that home about 2 weeks ago. I just found out my tax refund is on the way so I will be ordering my bedroom suite hopefully in the next week. I have spent days trying to find a furniture store that has the set I want on the showroom floor so I can look at it first. Finally I found one, but they had sold it...go figure. They are expecting to have a new one on the floor by the weekend so I hope to go take a look and get mine ordered by the begining of next week. Before the furniture gets here I must paint our bedroom!!! Right now it is a mint green (yuck). A color I have lived with for the past 2 years, but will be happy to change, or so I thought. Friday I went to Lowes and picked out about 10 paint chips to bring home. Once I laid them all out I picked 3 favorites. Sunday, I went back to Lowes to get testers. I am not a fan of the testers, but for some reason light colors never come out right so I knew I needed to do this.
I know I want a lighter color paint. My furnitute will be a Merlot finish which is almost black. So my thinking is the walls need to be a light but warm color, this will bring out the beauty of the merlot finish and make the furniture the focal point of the room. A dark color will just wash out and make the room look smaller. First 3 samples did not go well. Two of them looked pink once I put them on the wall. So I pick two more colors and go get testers. I paint those colors on the wall and still I am disappointed. By now I am having a nervous break down and don't understand what the problem is... Here is the first 5 colors on the wall.
These colors do not inspire me!!!!
So after all this testing paint and being disappointed I got an idea. The walls are mint green now, so maybe it is throwing my colors off. I knew from the get go that this was a possiblilty but I never thought it would change them this much. So today while I was on my lunch break for work I ran home grabed the Kiltz and painted the wall. Yes I keep Kiltz at my house...LOL I told you I am ALWAYS painting something! So when I came home from work the wall got one more coat of Kiltz and then I started the testers all over again. I was amazed by the difference, see what you think.
Believe it or not these are the same colors in the picture above.
So now I am trying to pick a color. Still not in "love" with any of them. I realy like earthy tones like brown, and maybe that is the problem. I don't much care for blah colors, but I know that is what this room needs and in the end I will be happy. So my plan of action now is to look at the colors for the next few days and make a choice by the weekend. I plan to start painting over the weekend, I will keep you posted.
So I have a vision in my mind of how I want my room to look like. We will have to see how it comes out. My next few projects are already lined up for me...woo hoo! First on my list is to take my old bedroom suite and refinsish it. I have never done this before, but I am going to give it a try :) Then my next project, installing real wood blinds throughout the house. I already ordered samples from the manufactor to pick out the color I want. Shhh don't tell Mark! He will actually like the new blinds the rest not so much. I do have a planned purchase that Mark will be happy about. I am planning on buying a new flat screen TV pretty soon to replace our old tube TV in the bedroom. That new bedroom suite deserves a proper TV set :) Mark will LOVE that!
On another note... Triple coupons at Harris Teeter was awesome! I am going to get a post together about all my good shopping trips in the next few days. Hope everyone is having a great week :)
So I know I have been talking about the new mattress and bed room suite, which is the motivation for my new project. When we first moved into this house the previous owners had very strange taste in color. We spent the first day here repainting. Of course moving was a big enough task so we only tackeled the worst colored rooms. My living room and hallway which was pink, the computer room which was an awful navy and burgendy and the back kitchen wall which was Barney purple. Yes, our house had some major color issues, which I have spent the past two years tackling. The other rooms were ok colors so for times sake we left them alone. Since we moved in I have painted the guest bathroom, one guest bedroom and redone the kitchen wall from the orginal beige we painted when we first moved in. Mark hates painting, but I love it for the most part. So I am the one that takes on these projects because like every woman I want my home to be perfect. So now to the project...
We bought the new mattress and brought that home about 2 weeks ago. I just found out my tax refund is on the way so I will be ordering my bedroom suite hopefully in the next week. I have spent days trying to find a furniture store that has the set I want on the showroom floor so I can look at it first. Finally I found one, but they had sold it...go figure. They are expecting to have a new one on the floor by the weekend so I hope to go take a look and get mine ordered by the begining of next week. Before the furniture gets here I must paint our bedroom!!! Right now it is a mint green (yuck). A color I have lived with for the past 2 years, but will be happy to change, or so I thought. Friday I went to Lowes and picked out about 10 paint chips to bring home. Once I laid them all out I picked 3 favorites. Sunday, I went back to Lowes to get testers. I am not a fan of the testers, but for some reason light colors never come out right so I knew I needed to do this.
I know I want a lighter color paint. My furnitute will be a Merlot finish which is almost black. So my thinking is the walls need to be a light but warm color, this will bring out the beauty of the merlot finish and make the furniture the focal point of the room. A dark color will just wash out and make the room look smaller. First 3 samples did not go well. Two of them looked pink once I put them on the wall. So I pick two more colors and go get testers. I paint those colors on the wall and still I am disappointed. By now I am having a nervous break down and don't understand what the problem is... Here is the first 5 colors on the wall.
These colors do not inspire me!!!!
So after all this testing paint and being disappointed I got an idea. The walls are mint green now, so maybe it is throwing my colors off. I knew from the get go that this was a possiblilty but I never thought it would change them this much. So today while I was on my lunch break for work I ran home grabed the Kiltz and painted the wall. Yes I keep Kiltz at my house...LOL I told you I am ALWAYS painting something! So when I came home from work the wall got one more coat of Kiltz and then I started the testers all over again. I was amazed by the difference, see what you think.
Believe it or not these are the same colors in the picture above.
So now I am trying to pick a color. Still not in "love" with any of them. I realy like earthy tones like brown, and maybe that is the problem. I don't much care for blah colors, but I know that is what this room needs and in the end I will be happy. So my plan of action now is to look at the colors for the next few days and make a choice by the weekend. I plan to start painting over the weekend, I will keep you posted.
So I have a vision in my mind of how I want my room to look like. We will have to see how it comes out. My next few projects are already lined up for me...woo hoo! First on my list is to take my old bedroom suite and refinsish it. I have never done this before, but I am going to give it a try :) Then my next project, installing real wood blinds throughout the house. I already ordered samples from the manufactor to pick out the color I want. Shhh don't tell Mark! He will actually like the new blinds the rest not so much. I do have a planned purchase that Mark will be happy about. I am planning on buying a new flat screen TV pretty soon to replace our old tube TV in the bedroom. That new bedroom suite deserves a proper TV set :) Mark will LOVE that!
On another note... Triple coupons at Harris Teeter was awesome! I am going to get a post together about all my good shopping trips in the next few days. Hope everyone is having a great week :)
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