Happy Valentines Day!
May your day be full of roses, kisses, and copious amount of chocolate.
I've already treated myself to 10 minutes alone with a tub of Nutella and a spoon...so, yeah.
Ok, I'm gonna go ahead and admit now that today's post is going to be a bit of a hodgepodge of random snippets from the last few days... mainly paint related.
Yes, more paint talk...
You may want to grab a drink in order to make this more interesting...I'll wait.
May your day be full of roses, kisses, and copious amount of chocolate.
I've already treated myself to 10 minutes alone with a tub of Nutella and a spoon...so, yeah.
Ok, I'm gonna go ahead and admit now that today's post is going to be a bit of a hodgepodge of random snippets from the last few days... mainly paint related.
Yes, more paint talk...
You may want to grab a drink in order to make this more interesting...I'll wait.
So the past week or so, as you know, we have been priming the entire interior of the house.
Every. Single. Room.
I'm all for child labor to speed it along.
At times, to ward off the madness of applying stroke after stroke after stroke of boring white paint, we had to take a dance break...
I got to test out my beat-boxing skills.
Nailed it.
Surprisingly, despite the mania that painting a million inches of walls in boring white paint can cause, it has gone very well. We are moving along nicely and with the exception of the stairwell walls that are simply too high for my vertically challenged self to reach, we are completely done with priming and have now moved on to the exciting stage of painting...
PRETTY PRETTY COLORS!
So again, as you know from my constant Facebook updates (sorry for blowing up your news feed by the way) I have been in a frenzy the past few months trying to decide on the perfect color scheme for each and every room of this lovely Farmhouse of ours.
I liked to stay organized and methodical during my color choosing...
That was a big lie.... I woke up with a paint swatch stuck to my face this morning.
Sure, it may have cost me countless hours of my life choosing these colors, but that's ok. It was worth sacrificing my precious minutes, as well as the minutes of the employees at Sherwin Williams who had to listen to me think out loud for 20 minutes, on 4 separate occasions, while I tried to decide between Repose Gray, Alpaca or Agreeable Gray....
...I could tell by looking at them that they weren't really sure if I was in deed just thinking out loud to myself, or in fact talking to them, so they just stood there waiting for me to shut up....
They are all so different! See?
I liked to stay organized and methodical during my color choosing...
That was a big lie.... I woke up with a paint swatch stuck to my face this morning.
Sure, it may have cost me countless hours of my life choosing these colors, but that's ok. It was worth sacrificing my precious minutes, as well as the minutes of the employees at Sherwin Williams who had to listen to me think out loud for 20 minutes, on 4 separate occasions, while I tried to decide between Repose Gray, Alpaca or Agreeable Gray....
...I could tell by looking at them that they weren't really sure if I was in deed just thinking out loud to myself, or in fact talking to them, so they just stood there waiting for me to shut up....
They are all so different! See?
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(2nd row. Can you see why the Sherwin Williams guy was looking at me like I had lost my marbles? Yeah, I suppose I get it...whatever )
Anyways, standing in front of a wall of color swatches or planted in front of my laptop scanning hundreds of inspiration photos night after night was well worth it in order to make this house a beautifully designed oasis of coziness...
...yes, I think highly of my design skills.
So after much deliberation on the neutral tones above that would grace the walls of the family room, entryway, office, and stairwell going upstairs, I finally decided on Agreeable Gray...
The lighting isn't good, and without the pretty Dover White baseboards and crown molding, and the dark hardwood floors installed yet, it's hard to really even notice that the wall opposite the fireplace wall is even painted, but trust me, it looks goooood ;) It's very Agreeable. Not too cool, not too warm. It's classy and soft and will be the perfect backdrop for all the little accents and accessories I plan to throw everywhere when all is said and done.
I also decided on Lucy's room. She requested a purple blue pink room, so naturally, in order to prevent her room from looking like a bruise, I took it upon myself to pick one and run with it. I didn't want blue, because their bathroom will be a very soft, greenish grayish blue color right across the hall.
Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams to be exact.
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I immediately ruled out red. I hated it. Hated it so much I didn't even take a picture, and coming from the queen of phone pics, well, that's saying something.
I liked the green, it was pretty, but it just wasn't getting me excited. I expect a certain flutter of happy anxiety to overcome me when I put paint up on a wall that I have high hopes for. I compare this feeling to that of a surprise date night, or finding a $20 in the pocket of an old coat, or settling in with a plate of nachos and finding out that The Goonies is on television...
You know what I'm sayin'.
Anyways, my husband liked the green, but I just couldn't get on board. I did/do, however really like the blue/green color, but he wasn't so sure, so as a compromise I offered to try out a dark chocolate brown color....
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So after much deliberation on the neutral tones above that would grace the walls of the family room, entryway, office, and stairwell going upstairs, I finally decided on Agreeable Gray...
The lighting isn't good, and without the pretty Dover White baseboards and crown molding, and the dark hardwood floors installed yet, it's hard to really even notice that the wall opposite the fireplace wall is even painted, but trust me, it looks goooood ;) It's very Agreeable. Not too cool, not too warm. It's classy and soft and will be the perfect backdrop for all the little accents and accessories I plan to throw everywhere when all is said and done.
I also decided on Lucy's room. She requested a purple blue pink room, so naturally, in order to prevent her room from looking like a bruise, I took it upon myself to pick one and run with it. I didn't want blue, because their bathroom will be a very soft, greenish grayish blue color right across the hall.
Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams to be exact.
(paint swatch photo borrowed from www.cottagemagpie.com)
I didn't want pink, because well, I just didn't. Neither myself, nor my little Lulu are girly enough to rock pink walls, so that left purple, the perfect happy medium between blue and pink. Probably the easiest color choice I've made in the entire house.
What a lovely puuuurple it is!
A little edging and I'll be done!
Reminded me of this guy...
I started this post yesterday, and last night I did manage to get Lucy's room finished off and I also got Olive's room painted too. A lovely shade of green (no, not Olive green) called Shagreen by Sherwin Williams...
(photo borrowed from www.houzz.com)
It will look perfect with her white furniture and pink flowery bedding.
Bright, cheery and happy, just like her!
Eeeeeer, well, normally happy and cheery...she's been fighting the plague all week...
So let's see, the last and largest of my adventures in paint this week have been revolved around the dining room paint colors, which I now lovingly refer to as the Bane of my Existence, which my husband now refers to as "Oh my God just pick one", and which my children now refer to as "time to call grandma"...
"Grandma, come pick us up. Mom just busted out the paint swatches and it doesn't look pretty."
Anyways, I wrote about choosing these colors a few days ago. Missed it? You can check it out here.
After some helpful opinions from you lovely people who took the time to read my post and weigh in, I had it narrowed down to three.
The blue, the green, and the red, so I bought some samples at Sherwin Williams...
I immediately ruled out red. I hated it. Hated it so much I didn't even take a picture, and coming from the queen of phone pics, well, that's saying something.
I liked the green, it was pretty, but it just wasn't getting me excited. I expect a certain flutter of happy anxiety to overcome me when I put paint up on a wall that I have high hopes for. I compare this feeling to that of a surprise date night, or finding a $20 in the pocket of an old coat, or settling in with a plate of nachos and finding out that The Goonies is on television...
You know what I'm sayin'.
Anyways, my husband liked the green, but I just couldn't get on board. I did/do, however really like the blue/green color, but he wasn't so sure, so as a compromise I offered to try out a dark chocolate brown color....
The brown is pretty. It's classy and safe and he really liked it, but I'm still leaning to the blue....
I haven't gone back to Sherwin yet to purchase the gallon of Hazel (the blue square painted above) because I figured I should at least act like I'm considering my husbands opinion about preferring the brown...
...I do take his likes and dislikes into account despite how it may seem...
...sometimes...
...ok not often, but I do try really hard.
Honest?
:) Ashley
Oh and here's our doorbell button!
So cute!
I wonder if they make a door bell that plays "Ring my Bell" by Anita Ward...