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.

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[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.