I can't believe it is once again Friday! This week zipped by and we're already on the brink of the weekend!Mr. Bear and I bought our house in September 2012 (we put in an offer the week we came home from our honeymoon!). We've been in it for almost 8 months and still have not painted a single room.
The main problem had been agreeing on a color. I like colors with warmer undertones while Mr. Bear prefers cooler colors. Our childhoods have greatly influenced us. My parents ALWAYS had warm colors (reds, golds, browns, warm greens, warm beiges) while his parents' house is varying shades of blues and bluish greens.
This week we finally agreed on colors for our kitchen, dining room and guest room.
We are planning to begin painting tomorrow, but boy am I not looking forward to the prep work.
Several years ago, my parents bought a new house. This was the last time I've painted so much as a speck of anything. What I do remember, however, is how much I hated taping and tarping everything in the room. Anyway, we are planning to go buy the paint tonight. These are all Sherwin Williams colors.
Kitchen
Our kitchen has beige granite, and floors, white cabinets with nickel pulls and we have stainless steel appliances. Here's a photo from the previous owner's MLS listing:
For now, we've settled on Garden Spot for the kitchen
Dining Room
We recently purchased a dining room set, Ashley Furniture's Hayley table, chairs and buffet. I plan to get some funky accent chairs for the head and foot of the table. I really want a gray room in our house, and thought the dark wood in the table would look great with the gray. I may re-upholster the chairs with a different fabric, but they are pretty neutral right now.
Essential Gray for the dining room:
Guest Room
As you can see from the MLS photo, our guest room is a lovely shade of pinkish lavender. Not seen in the photo, there was even a shrine to Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez! While it was lovely for the little girl who lived there, we are looking for a more updated and modern look. We've decided on a light/medium beige large stripe for the guest bedroom (something like this from Pinterest).
I'll post later next week with a final update on the paint. I'm excited to finally start making our house our own!
What do you think of our picks?
-Danielle
-Danielle
Hope you guys were able to catch the 40% off sale at Sherwin Williams last weekend! Fun facts (if you don't already know): they have color codes for almost any paint company imaginable, so you aren't just limited to the Sherwin Willims swatches (and they will match for no extra fees); you can buy gallons of untinted paint at any time (like during a sale) and take it back later once you've picked a color.
ReplyDeleteAlso, they told me their next 40% off saled will be in July, for future room-painting-planning. :o)
Thanks for the heads up! We actually used Valspar paint from Lowe's and did color matching because we don't have a SW very close to us. Maybe by July we'll pick colors for the rest of the house and can actually plan a trip to the closest store at 40% off!
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