Guest Bedroom Paint!

The guest bedroom is so close to being done!  I'm excited that our guests will finally have somewhere to stay instead of the couch!  The carpet is ripped up and the room is painted, hopefully this week we will get the trim finished up and then we can move in all the furniture.  We inherited a bunch of bedroom furniture from Josh's grandpa.  We decided to go with a beachy/carribean theme for the room and found a perfect dark teal for the walls.  It's Valspar's Sea Song so of course Josh approved!!  Here are some before and afters of the floors and walls.  I'll post again when we get it finished!

Before:

And after!

Gorgeous wood floors!  Who carpets over that??

Love the color!!  Can't wait until its all finished!

Pirates Coast and Hidden Lagoon...

Our bathroom is painted!!  One less room of gross grey/blue paint!  Picking the colors for the bathroom was  a little more complicated than the bedroom.  The newly uncovered tile is tan, the vanity cupboards are dark brown, and the counters are navy.  And then, all of the awesome new towels we got for the wedding are seafoam green and grey.  Since we decided we are not going to tile right away, I had to try to find a color that would work with the colors already there, but also go with the towels and the color scheme we want eventually.  I ended up settling on a color that was a few shades lighter than the green towels, which just happened to be Pirates Coast from Valspar.  Of course that got an immediate approval from Josh (as I mentioned before, he picks colors based on their name).  Once we got it on the walls, it ended up being a lot lighter than we expected, really it was almost white with a slight blueish-green tint.  Since it was so close to white, we decided we would do the trim a darker shade.  A few shades darker ended up being Hidden Lagoon, and what better color to go with Pirates Coast than that!

Here is the bathroom before the new paint:

 

And for good measure a close up of behind the toliet:

 And here are the afters plus my new over the toilet cabinet (ignore the mess...we are still in the middle of a few last projects in there!)

We also decided to do an accent "wall" with the trim color since there wasn't a lot of trim:

Oh how I love paint!  Here are a few close ups of the details we added too:

Now if only the bathtub situation was figured out....

Goodbye Dirty Walls

The bedroom is all painted!  One room down, eight rooms and a hallway to go.  Every wall in the house was painted a very light blue/grey color (or maybe they were supposed to be white and just really dirty) and on top of that, they hadn't been washed in forever.  And by forever I mean it is literally possible that they had never been washed...

We decided to stick with the green/brown color scheme to match our comforter and the few accessories we were planning to keep.  Since the furniture and our huge print from Ikea are all dark, we wanted to go with a lighter color for the walls.  We finally settled on Olive 3 from the Laura Ashley Home collection, although this barely got approved by Josh since he didn't like the name.  We decided to do a bright white trim to make eveything look extra clean.

Here is the before:

And here are some afters!

We also got this awesome light from Lowes:

Way better than the generic globe with ceiling fan (see before picture).  Even better, it perfectly matches our bed and the dresser we plan to get.

So here's what's left for the bedroom:

1. Finish floors (to be done this week, hopefully)
2. Install closet
3. Move furniture in
4. Accessorize (rugs, window coverings, etc)

Hopefully by next week we can be moved in!



The Magic of White Paint

The cupboards and closets in the house were not a pretty sight when we moved in.  Even after scrubbing with everything from dust remover to Clorox bleach they were still covered with black scuff marks and other mysterious stains.  Not to mention, they were also all lined with a gorgeous wood grain paper. 

Here's some before pictures of the pantry/bar cupboard.  The rest looked the same or even worse.

 I finally decided the best solution would be to paint them all.  After ripping off enough shelf liner to cover a parking lot, I removed all the shelves and set them up in my work room (aka the front living room-much warmer than the garage and much easier than the basement!).  One thing I discovered is that the broken down cardboard boxes from the move made perfect “drop cloths” for this project since they don’t slip around or bunch up the way sheets do. 

Here are some comparison pictures.  I can't believe how big of a difference one coat of paint makes!

After a fresh coat of white ceiling paint on all the shelves and inside the cupboards/closets I ended up with wonderful, fresh and most importantly CLEAN storage areas!