Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Guest Room Sneak Peak...




Yesterday I started painting the downstairs guest room that I have been orchestrating for a while now. Here it is when we looked at the house, one of three office spaces in the house - the people that lived here must have worked way too much.


I posted my inspiration pics earlier here. The room has some really pretty crown - but it is that yuck orange wood that the whole house is trimmed in. The color of the wood is really an additional color in the room - only once the orange is painted over you can see what the wall color is.


In this small room I have 3 doors to paint, 2 windows (which partly will have to wait until spring), crown moulding and baseboards. I will do one maybe two coats of primer, then at least 1-2 coats of paint. While my MIL and FIL were here building and painting our built-ins they said they discovered a miracle primer that was outdoing my Sherwin Williams Adhesion Primer 2 to 1. I hope she's right! I'm not that excited about it 1 coat in, but we shall see.

Then on to the walls, I solicited much advice and looked at many blogs to get a good suggestion for gray. My two finalists were SW Amazing Gray and BM Silver Fox:


 SW7044 Amazing Gray    

Amazing Gray                                   Silver Fox

I thought I was going with Silver Fox, but when I took everything out of the room and started painting out the trim, it looked a little dark - so I will paint a bigger swatch tomorrow and see how I feel.

Here is my pillow sneak peek:



If I can get all the trimming done, maybe I can get some help with the walls this weekend. My roller seems to be more willing to help if he doesn't have to trim. Wish us luck!

7 comments:

  1. Liz, I love your color pallet, it's going to be beautiful. Dean and I just finished painting our movie room and I'm sooo sick of painting trim! Like Ryan, Dean will help with rolling and that's it!

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  2. Love the pillows! Yellow and gray look so pretty together! I know it will all look great when you are done! Good luck painting. Thanks for your sweet words on my blog!

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  3. Great colors. Can't wait to see it all done. Hugs, Marty

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  4. I honestly don't know how you manage to paint all the trim wihtout going crazy!!!

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  5. Hi Liz, I'm enjoying reading through your blog and seeing all of the updates you have made! Wow, you all have been working! Thanks for your visit, and your nice comment.
    Cheers, Andrea

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  6. Hi,
    My husband and I are painting out bedroom gray this evening. What a chore! Picking out the perfect gray was a tough one:) By the way, I love your blog title. My hometown of Louisville is called "the Ville." Anyways, I hope you get to make one of my heart shirts before Monday. It'll will be just perfect for the day!

    Miranda
    www.justdrinkacoke.blogspot.com

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  7. I'm lovin' your color choices. Can't wait to see the finished result.
    CAS

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