I mentioned before that the holidays have really been a primary focus since we moved in. Apart from smaller updates (like these bookshelves we installed), holiday projects have been nearly the only thing on my mind. I'm not used to the "holiday season" lasting through March! As a result, I'm trying to redirect a bit onto what we want to accomplish in the next few months. Just thinking about painting a wall a few weeks ago made me want to nap, but the inkling to paint and create an overall vision for each room is finally setting in.
With our last two homes, I began painting in the first 24 hours of taking ownership. Literally. So an unpainted house was starting to feel weird. The pale yellow was neutral enough to handle for a time, but I was dying to add some bolder colors. I pretty much had my heart set on green from the beginning. After perusing my Pinterest boards, I discovered I'd been not-so-secretly fawning over green rooms for quite a while. Like the two below...
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When we hit up Sherwin Williams, there were a few different shades we pondered.
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| Pardon the cell phone picture. This probably doesn't depict the colors very well... |
At first, I thought an olive or avocado color was going to win, which is a bit more yellow than blue. But then I considered more of a "true green" as well. Relentless Olive (not pictured above) and Garden Grove made the cut, and the samples came home with us. I slapped 'em on the wall in a few spots to see what looked best.
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| Top: Relentless Olive. Bottom: Garden Grove. |
Maybe it was the fact that Will referred to Relentless Olive as "baby poop green", or maybe I just dig more of a blue undertone, but Garden Grove came out on top.
Thanks to a 50% off sale Sherwin Williams had right after we bought our house, I had a couple gallons of base paint set aside to have tinted to whatever color we decided on for the living room. What made the whole process even easier was my super fabulous hubby. He painted the whole room, both coats, while I was living it up in Tampa for a bachelorette party. Swoon. My hero!
Because it's been a while, here's what it looked like before.
And here's what I came home to.
Yea. I came home to that beached whale on the couch, too.
The following weekend, we added white between the crown molding and chair rail near the ceiling. See above how it was yellow before?
This is how it looks after adding some white. We still need to touch it up aaaaaand paint the ceiling white. Ugggghhhhhhhh. I'll need to recover from Mardi Gras before tackling that beast.
It's been 70 degrees here, by the way. Therefore, I refused to close the door, even to take these pictures.
Also, nice weather and door open means it's impossible to get pet-free pictures in the living room.
Notice the new poster to the left of the window? It's a Jazz Fest poster from 2004 that we got signed and framed for a bargain. We've made a handful of New Orleans art purchases recently... hopefully I'll get a chance to share more about them at some point.
That rock to the left of the cabinet above? Our "rustic" door stop.
