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Adventures in Color – Part 1

July 16, 2011 By Shannah 1 Comment

My photographer has been on vacation (if you can call working 12 hour days + weekends at his “real” job a vacation!) so you will have to forgive me for the quality of the recent and forthcoming pictures you’ve seen here.  I’ve got the link to the momtography class but I just haven’t pulled the trigger pressed the mouse button quite yet.
I set out on a mission to capture the paint colors in our house.  It won’t mean much without the context of the entire room, I know, but I’m working up to that.  It will require my entire family to move out of the house for a week, the maids to come and my house to magically transform itself for me to be able to take pictures of it without you being witness to its disarray and just general lack of designer focus.  Hmm…maybe a home tour wouldn’t be such a bad addition here?  It would be a constant photo reminder that I need to get my butt in gear!
Well, until my gluteus gets inspired, I hope you will settle for some pictures of my walls.  What is it they say about watching paint dry…hope this isn’t that bad!

When I set out to pick paint colors for this house, I was really excited about the light we get.  I felt that meant I could really take advantage and use some richer/deeper colors in there.  Some days, I am so happy I did that and others…well, let’s just say that I am saving my pennies for the painters just in case that whim turns into a real “I hate this color” problem.  I’m not scared to paint regular rooms but two of our spaces are two story and I’m not the most stable person on the planet (go ahead…make the joke).  I will go ahead and note that all the paint is color matched to Behr Premium which has the primer built in.  Oh, and if a color isn’t provided it because I have no idea what the real color was and my can just has a formula.

You’ve already seen the playroom but this is probably the best on camera depiction of the true wall color.  It’s Christopher Robin’s Swing by Disney.


See, pictures of random walls and doors. Fun, right?

Our hallways (upstairs and down) are this great tan that looks sagey green sometimes depending on the light.

The living room was near impossible for me to capture for some reason.  It’s Behr’s Dusty Olive.

The powder room is the same as it was in our townhouse because I loved the color so much that I had to use it somewhere in the house!  It is Glidden Slate Green (but it looks very blue in real life)

Want a perfect depiction of how bad my camera skills are? Check out my dining room:

That room is most definitely not bright red. It is Behr’s Red Pepper which looks more like this:

The kitchen connects (via a little doorway) to the dining room.  It’s a victim of my husband’s love of tan and is Martha Stewart Natural Twine.

From there, you can see the room that keeps me up at night: our family room.  It is the room we went the darkest on because it has a lot of natural light and white trim.  Most days, I love the choice.  Some days, I wish it were a little lighter.

So, there is our entire lower level! I’ll try to schedule my photographer for the upstairs photos.  Until then, I’ll give you a sneak peak of what H has been keeping busy with while mom is bathing in primer priming the guest room chest of drawers.

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Filed Under: decorating, Interior Changes, Painting

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  1. oniry says

    November 11, 2017 at 3:22 am

    Any new updates for color that you might be suggesting? Thanks.

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