Happy New Room~
Sunday I got a wild hair up my {you know what}…
Let me first tell you how this all started. I had this awesome print hanging in my house {not pictured} and it fell. And broke. In a million pieces. Not the print {silly} but the glass. I immediately started crying and I am still not sure why. I wasn’t sure if I was sad because it broke or because I just got through mopping my beautiful wood floors and that meant {not clean floors anymore}. You get the picture. After I cleaned all the GLASS I found myself staring at the “frame” that the picture was in. A beautiful hollow frame. I guess that is what you would call it? Or maybe a {soul-less} frame. I kept thinking of things I could possibly do with it, instead of throwing it out to the wolves. Well you know me, when I do things I do them BIG… Nothing can be simple or easy. Well, I finally (in my head) decided what I was going to do with the frame. However, in order to do this I had to change the whole layout of my extra bedroom/laundry room/guest room/sewing room/junk room. I even {in my head} knew exactly where I was going to place it! How wonderful and easy this was… The vision was now turning into reality! HA, so I thought.
As you can see below the bedroom has a BROWN strip in the middle. Believe it or not I actually loved this color when I first painted it. Then after moving things around and putting all the stuff I didn’t know where to put in the rest of my house in this room, I started to dislike it. Like alot. Like I didn’t even like being in it. I mean, it’s just the extra bedroom. Right. Ok. Moving along.
The frame that broke is black. We all know a black frame on a brown wall does not work. And that frame just HAD to go in the middle of these two windows…(it’s not the frame below).
Now off start this “simple and quick” project. Mind you this is now all flowing around that measly little black frame. After searching through all of the paint outside I quickly realized I don’t have enough of the color I wanted. So what did I do… You guessed it! I just mixed the two colors that I liked. One was a Ralph Lauren color called “juniper breeze” and the other was just “white”. I know, I know your wondering if I measured. Of course I didn’t. That would take all of the fun out of it!!!
(fyi: I just took my medicine because I broke my foot. I think the medicine made me do all of this)
What do you think?
Ok so we have done the math (not really) and were ready to paint. I was praying that I had enough to do 2 coats cause I couldn’t mix that color I conjured up for the love of God again if you paid me too!!!
I was kinda smart. I painted a “test strip” or “test wall” (again I think it was the medicine)…Who really paints a test wall. Next.
I am finally almost done. Phew.
TADAHHHH
It’s done! Can you believe it! OH. Did I tell you I did ALL of this in 3 hours. I mean, like moved everything, painted, waited for it to dry, put furniture back in it’s spot and kinda moved things around. If I were you, I would be wondering right about now, where is this “frame” that caused all of this change. Well, it’s coming. Not only is it coming but in the morning I will be putting up the tutorial for it.
{in your high voice say YAYYYYY}
I even put up some flags I made. If you want to buy some (YOU DO) click here!!!
Below is the frame. It may not seem like much to you but I am in LOVE with it! I guess that is how seeing a “vision” works, right!
All I did was put cork board in the inside of the frame and painted the top with chalk board paint. You know I LOVE my chalk board paint. You can see another project I did with chalk board paint HERE.
I just changed a few things up but as you can see I like the clean and crisp look. Do you feel clean and crisp looking at these pictures? I love bottles. Check out my post HERE about them!
The picture on the bottom left is just a corner in the room, which I love. The picture on the right is my ceiling. How cool. A wood plank ceiling. <3
Seriously, I hope you enjoyed my blabbering tonight. Make sure and come back in the morning for the tutorial!!!
Where you get your energy from, I have no idea.
But I love you and I love all your fabulous ideas!!!
love it… cant wait till Dixie see's wat u did… she is gunna flip…
Adrienne: I have NO idea! xoxo
Nora: I know!!!
hey there,
thanks for stopping by! love to read your list too if you get a chance to write one link back and let me know! love the paint, love the ceiling, and i love love love the chalkboard/bulletin board!!
smiles from up north, in the cold, uhhh
shelley 🙂
http://im-stillstanding.com
I love the color that it came out!! Looks relaxing and calming!!!
Shelley: I hope to do my list by Friday! I have been SUPER busy!!! How do I link it back? Smiles from the Dirty South 🙂
Sis: It came out so good!!! <3 YA
What a total change! Well done you! I can't believe you mixed the two paints so well.
I did that once and the wall came out all different colours where I hadn't done enough mixing!! I just said I was going for an army camouflage look!
Sarahx
Sarah! I totally DID mix 2 colors!!! It came out GREAT!!!!! Thanks for stopping by!!
I love the new color… It's perfect for the room. 3 hours.. wow. I would still be debating the paint in 3 hours. Great job and love the frame too.
I love your new color! It really looks great!
Hugs, Cindy
Gorgeous. I can't ever run a point roller in a straight line.
I like the new color. Goes much better with your cool ceiling.
Marlis: Thanks!!! I usually jump into things before my mind changes!!! Those are the things that always turn out fab!!!
Cindy: Thanks!!!!
American in Bath: Thank you!!!!! You could TOTALLY DO IT!!!!
Pan!!! It goes fabulousley with the ceiling!! (is that a word LOL)