Sunday, November 10, 2013

Week Ending V0l 29 - Painting Edition

capturing the weekend in pictures Friday through Monday
 
Re-inventing Mother
 
 








 


This weekend was unusual in that I was able to convince Mr. Golfer to help me paint.  He hates to paint.  But our living/dining.  area is fairly large and just too much for me to do alone.  He caved. Sweet man.

The last time this room was painted was 2005.  I remember that because my mother was still alive and living with us.  A co-worker of mine came and helped me.  Neutrals were very "in" ( not to say they aren't now, but I usually always have a color on the wall) and so I chose " Parchment".  I believe it was a Behr color from Home Depot.

One of the things it has taken me years to learn is the relationship between paint color and lighting.  In the past I have just chosen a color I liked and used it.  Most of the time it was a mistake, as it was with Parchment.  Our house has a front southern exposure with a porch overhang.  This means the light is filtered coming in the only two windows in this area. After 25 years in this house, I finally figured out shades that work.  I love blue.  But the blues for this lighting need to have green undertones in them.  Last year I discovered Benjamin Moore's Wyeth Blue.  You can see that on the wall in the entry way.  What we ended up using in the living/ dining area was a shade lighter.  Sherwin William's Rainwashed.

Yesterday and today have been very gray days, so the true color is yet to be seen.  But so far I really like it.  I am still moving furniture around and deciding which items to keep ( my favorite part of putting a room back together). I'm not sure whay the picture with the piamo makes it look dirty, but I can assure you it is not!  Daughter Caitlin would be very upset as that is her piano ( a Make A Wish gift).

 I will post more pictures during the week as I put more touches to the room
I have a big project I am working on for one wall and may even use this as my first tutorial to include here.
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2 comments:

  1. How nice to have nice clean walls just in time for the holiday season.
    My Mike doesn't care for painting either so I am the one that usually does all the painting and it's been awhile. You may have just inspired me to get busy here!

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  2. The color is very nice. It's good to make a change once in a while.

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