So I have finally started to make decisions & my husband is begrudgingly gratefully assisting me in starting the transformation. I went back and forth between doing two paint colors in the living room and decided that since a lot of my décor is only in the same color family and not the same color it would be easier to do a neutral color on the wall and use the décor as the color in my room. I like the idea of this as well because I feel the room will be ‘airier’ as well. So the plan right now is to do a grey color on all the walls and then grey and white stripes on one of the walls. I’m not sure which, but I was kind of leaning towards the wall where our TV is against. Not sure why, it just felt right. Opinions?
Don’t mind the messes tucking around our living room. Also, apologies in advance for the imbalance of décor. See, when we moved into our home there were a gazillion nails still in the walls ( And painted the same color as every inch of our walls) So since we have actually decorated our home, we tend to throw things onto the nails already in the walls in order to get them off the floor. In fact, that chalkboard is actually from Eisley’s room. OOPS. Oh well, that’s going to change soon. Oh! Don’t mind my sleeping baby on the couch.
These are the greys I’m between at the moment:
Glidden Pebble Grey
Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter
Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray
HELP ME CHOOSE PLEASE!!!!
This is the ugly built in we have in the corner. We’re planning on painting the wooden pieces white to match the trim and removing the ugly mirror tiles. I’m trying to decide if I should do a pop of color on the wall behind these shelves or if I should stick to the grey I plan on doing in the rest of the room.
Okay, now that I’ve burned your eyes with our horrid looking living room, we move on to the kitchen. Which has been nothing but a nightmare since we moved here really.
We have dealt with with a leaky sink, a leaky ceiling, had a dishwasher crap out on us & the worst of it all, in my opinion… THIS:
Seriously?! Okay. When we first moved in I saw the wallpaper and I thought, Oh, this will be a hassle but it’s doable. LITTLE DID I KNOW that not only were there THREE LAYERS OF WALLPAPER but they had been layed DIRECTLY ON THE DRYWALL. So when we first moved in I began to remove the wallpaper and this happened:
After that happened I gave up on the kitchen for a while and then like I discussed in this post a lot of things happened in our lives and the entire house took a backseat. Any who, Andrew & I are back on the wagon and taking care of business and trying to knock as much of our DIY to do off of our ever growing list before little miss is big enough to be running around while we’re working on things. Last night we played some music while Eisley chilled in her rocker and we tried to kick some wallpaper arse.
Andrew did a lot better at removing the wallpaper than I did. I have to narrow down my choices on paint color for the kitchen, but eventually we plan on doing the white Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation on the cabinets. Anyone used the kit before? If so, what is your opinion on it? Worth it?
Nicole
Edit: I forgot to mention that the room is going to be accented in shades of blueish teal. I posted some of the decor I'm working with on my instagram [nicannette] so check that out. it might help!
Don’t mind the messes tucking around our living room. Also, apologies in advance for the imbalance of décor. See, when we moved into our home there were a gazillion nails still in the walls ( And painted the same color as every inch of our walls) So since we have actually decorated our home, we tend to throw things onto the nails already in the walls in order to get them off the floor. In fact, that chalkboard is actually from Eisley’s room. OOPS. Oh well, that’s going to change soon. Oh! Don’t mind my sleeping baby on the couch.
These are the greys I’m between at the moment:
Glidden Pebble Grey
Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter
Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray
HELP ME CHOOSE PLEASE!!!!
This is the ugly built in we have in the corner. We’re planning on painting the wooden pieces white to match the trim and removing the ugly mirror tiles. I’m trying to decide if I should do a pop of color on the wall behind these shelves or if I should stick to the grey I plan on doing in the rest of the room.
Okay, now that I’ve burned your eyes with our horrid looking living room, we move on to the kitchen. Which has been nothing but a nightmare since we moved here really.
We have dealt with with a leaky sink, a leaky ceiling, had a dishwasher crap out on us & the worst of it all, in my opinion… THIS:
Seriously?! Okay. When we first moved in I saw the wallpaper and I thought, Oh, this will be a hassle but it’s doable. LITTLE DID I KNOW that not only were there THREE LAYERS OF WALLPAPER but they had been layed DIRECTLY ON THE DRYWALL. So when we first moved in I began to remove the wallpaper and this happened:
After that happened I gave up on the kitchen for a while and then like I discussed in this post a lot of things happened in our lives and the entire house took a backseat. Any who, Andrew & I are back on the wagon and taking care of business and trying to knock as much of our DIY to do off of our ever growing list before little miss is big enough to be running around while we’re working on things. Last night we played some music while Eisley chilled in her rocker and we tried to kick some wallpaper arse.
Andrew did a lot better at removing the wallpaper than I did. I have to narrow down my choices on paint color for the kitchen, but eventually we plan on doing the white Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation on the cabinets. Anyone used the kit before? If so, what is your opinion on it? Worth it?
Nicole
Edit: I forgot to mention that the room is going to be accented in shades of blueish teal. I posted some of the decor I'm working with on my instagram [nicannette] so check that out. it might help!
