Praise the Lord, drywall is done!!
*raises hands to the sky, looks up, closes eyes, smiles like a fool, does a wee jig, then proceeds on*
On top of that elating news, my husband said that our trim guy, Mike, was already out at the house and was getting ready to hang doors! I love, love, love it when people just show up at our house, first thing in the morning, tools on hand and ready to start working, without having to be called 732 times to ask where the bleep they are at?!
It maketh me very happy...
..happy to the point of Shakespearian vocabulary.
Another occurrence that makes me very happy? My wonderfully helpful mother offered to fly back to this wintery hell from her Utopian location atop a hill in sunny California, in order to help us prime and paint the whole Farmhouse and she's out there right now as well, just workin' away!
Another upside to today?
It smells like sweet vanilla cupcakes and bacon in the bakery right now...
Pure bliss.
Anyways, with my mother out priming away, the deadline for picking out all the colors for the interior walls of the entire Farmhouse is quickly nearing, and in case you have realized yet, I'm not the best at making quick decisions. I mean, it took me 5 months to pick the perfect shade of white for the exterior of the house. You can read about that debacle here.
So, past paint blunders aside, I now have a lot of paint colors to decide on. I know I could just go the easy route and pick one lovely shade of light taupe for the whole house and call it a day, but I just don't operate that way. I love taupe. In fact I'm sure my family room and some hallways, entryway etc. will most likely be a nice classy neutral shade of it, but I loves me some color too. I was lucky enough to decide quickly on the girls bedroom colors and was mentally stable enough at the time to make the final decision and pull the trigger on purchasing those gallons, but there are 5 other rooms right now that I just can't decide on.
1. Master Bedroom
2. Master Bathroom
3. Girls bathroom upstairs
4.Kitchen
5.Dining room
After thinking of ways to make the decision making easier, I'm decided I needed help and that I would have to break these down into a few separate posts, complete with my inspiration pictures that I have been flipping back and forth between. Today I've decided to start with #5, so let's get to decision making!
Excuse me while I find my clear-minded Zen place, steal a piece of bacon that was designated for scones tomorrow, and settle back in....
...ok now I'm ready.
The Farmhouse Dining Room
So, to help us out with the dining room wall color, there are currently two aiding factors in place. One is that we will have very tall (6 feet tall, ceilings are 9 feet), craftsman style, white wainscoting in that room, so all the photos I will include have wainscoting to help us visualize. The second factor is that I had recently reupholstered 6 dining rooms chairs that I had found on Craigslist.
You may remember them?
They look a little brighter than they really are, but as you can see they are full of colors, so I figured choosing one of these lovely colors for the walls would be a helpful start. I already know I don't want the orange or the dark greenish/brown color, so those are out. So that leaves, deep red, golden yellow, cool neutral, medium blue/green, or a green that's best described as a "bright sage".
So here we go.
(all pictures from www.houzz.com)
1. Red
Traditional Dining Room by Portland Interior Designers & Decorators Garrison Hullinger Interior Design Inc.
It's bright, it's warm, it's happy.
Or this one, a hair lighter.
Beach Style Dining Room by Santa Ana Interior Designers & Decorators Darci Goodman Design
3. Classy cool neutral
Traditional Dining Room by Morristown Architects & Designers Arturo Palombo Architecture
Beautiful. Exudes class and is very inviting and cozy.
4. Medium Blue/Green
Farmhouse Dining Room by Charleston Architects & Designers The Middleton Group1. Master Bedroom
2. Master Bathroom
3. Girls bathroom upstairs
4.Kitchen
5.Dining room
After thinking of ways to make the decision making easier, I'm decided I needed help and that I would have to break these down into a few separate posts, complete with my inspiration pictures that I have been flipping back and forth between. Today I've decided to start with #5, so let's get to decision making!
Excuse me while I find my clear-minded Zen place, steal a piece of bacon that was designated for scones tomorrow, and settle back in....
...ok now I'm ready.
The Farmhouse Dining Room
So, to help us out with the dining room wall color, there are currently two aiding factors in place. One is that we will have very tall (6 feet tall, ceilings are 9 feet), craftsman style, white wainscoting in that room, so all the photos I will include have wainscoting to help us visualize. The second factor is that I had recently reupholstered 6 dining rooms chairs that I had found on Craigslist.
You may remember them?
They look a little brighter than they really are, but as you can see they are full of colors, so I figured choosing one of these lovely colors for the walls would be a helpful start. I already know I don't want the orange or the dark greenish/brown color, so those are out. So that leaves, deep red, golden yellow, cool neutral, medium blue/green, or a green that's best described as a "bright sage".
So here we go.
(all pictures from www.houzz.com)
1. Red
Very Classy, very warm, very Farmhousey.
2. Golden Yellow
It's bright, it's warm, it's happy.
Or this one, a hair lighter.
3. Classy cool neutral
Beautiful. Exudes class and is very inviting and cozy.
4. Medium Blue/Green
This one is a little on the "cool" side, and could stand to be a hair more on the green side, but it's close to the cushion color. I would pick a version of this color was also just slightly darker and richer.
5. Bright Sage
Very classy, bright but not "in your face!" and it's crisp.
So? Any opinions? I'm struggling to choose and I really need to make up my mind. The kitchen is connected to the dining room and the kitchen will be mostly white beadboard but there will be some painted wall space, so any color I pick for the dining room will need to go nicely with the kitchen as well.
Hmmmmm.... what to choose, what to choose....
...............
Maybe one more piece of bacon will help me decide....
...or two...
....alright fine, I already ate 6 pieces while I was typing this all out.
...ok 7.
:) Ashley
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