Inspirations

[melaniesuzanne]

This was a weekend of inspiration and revelations. I have finally decided what the basement den should look like based upon a chance encounter with a beautiful rug at Lowe's. I've never built a room based upon an inspiration piece and this rug has the colors we want for the walls, floor, furniture, and accents. Now we just need to fix the leaky pipe, patch the ceiling, prime and paint the walls Valspar's "Peach Tea" (a light golden yellow), fix the baseboards, paint the brick hearth and fireplace surround white, clean and stain the concrete floor a deep rust orange (we're hiring out that job), paint the basement stairs white, and furnish the room. I can see the finished room in my head. I think has the same vision; if not, he'll come around to my view. ;)

I've also decided upon a bedroom color: Valspar's "Lucent Purple". It's a soft greyish purple and provides a cocoon-like feel without being too heavy or dark. It works beautifully against our wood furnishings and both the warm- and cool-weather bedding. Scott wanted purple in the bedroom. I wasn't wild about the idea, but this shade makes both of us happy.

The dining room colors, on the other hand, no longer make me happy. That was the first room we painted lo these five years ago and the scheme is wearing on me. That room may also get a golden yellow treatment. Repainting the dining room and touching up all the scrapes caused by cats and bikes in the kitchen and hall are much lower priorities.

Comments

[perronelle.livejournal.com]

Since I'm also a color geek I love your descriptions of colors and why you choose them. Your interior designer-self has been quiet lately- usurped by the bicycle goddess no doubt. Glad to see her peeking out of the closet again. ;-)

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[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

My inner decorator has been stymied by what to do with those unpainted rooms, to be honest. I started puzzling it out during the drive home from Pennsic and when I saw that rug, I was pretty much slammed in the face with how the basement should look. The bedroom color came from a spread in Real Simple. It turns out that shade is trendy. I'm so behind the curve. ;)

[alienor.livejournal.com]

We're on our second color in a few parts of the house, too. I told my sister that we were planning to repaint the guest room, since the current color doesn't go well with the new floors, furniture, drapes, rug, etc and she asked why not replace all of that stuff.

Or, I could buy $50 of new paint?

Besides, the rug that's in there is apparently the cats' FAVORITE RUG EVAR. It's sisal and felted wool.

Good luck with all the work! It sounds like it'll be awesome when it's done!

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. Paint is just about the cheapest refurb you can do to a room. Some people...

Thanks! It's a good thing I enjoy painting since there is so much of it in my future. :) I'm looking forward to seeing after pictures of your bathroom redo, as well. Is this the guest bath or master? If it's the guest, did y'all finish the master? I don't remember reading about that completion.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

We're working on the master bath now. I guess I haven't posted pictures of the guest bath because the shower curtain and laundry closet curtains are an AWFUL color compared to everything else, but I haven't gotten around to fixing them yet. Honestly waiting until we're not using that shower daily to redo the curtain.

(Not that the color is bad, but it's totally the wrong shade compared to the tile floor and wall paint).

So, perhaps I'll post up some in progress pictures in the near future?

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

5 years is a respectable lifetime for paint.

My mother is of the "everything goes with off-white" school of home decor. It does make sense to have pretty boring walls behind all the different stuff they hang on them. While they have a few favorite paintings that never come down, they move the art and the occasional cross-stitch from wall to wall to storage.