Here's a shot of our Family Room in the basement before we painted. I don't know about you, but two words come to my mind when looking at this before shot: Blindingly white. A "wee" bit of color was definitely needed.
And now, the after shot...
Those of you who know me, know that green is my all-time favorite color. So I thought why not bring it downstairs to our Family Room? Jason and I have a couple names for my very green accent wall. These names are "The St. Patty's Day wall", "The Shrek wall," and the best name may be "The six ball wall" because it looks like the green on the #6 pool ball. Overall, I'm in love with how it turned out after two coats on each color. And believe me, one coat of the dark green was not pretty and had us thinking..."Oh no! What did we do?"
If you like the colors we used, find your local Home Improvement Retailer that sells Dutch Boy Dimensions Paint. Dutch Boy is a family favorite because my Grandpa used to sell it in his paint and framing store many, many years ago. Even after all these years, we remain firm believers that you can never go wrong with Dutch Boy paint!
The Palette Used in our Family Room:
Large Accent Wall Color on left: Repurposed (Satin)
Top Right Wall Color: Bamboo (Satin)
Bottom Right Wall Color: Cargo Pants (Satin)
Do you have a painting project that you are about to tackle? Here are a couple very valuable tools that we found we cannot do without!
Do you have a painting project that you are about to tackle? Here are a couple very valuable tools that we found we cannot do without!
This Handy Paint Pail is the neatest invention for painting. This cup is amazing to use when working on trimming. Compared to holding a coffee can or margarine container full of paint for trimming the Handy Paint Pail not only has an easy-to-grip handle, but it also has a magnet by on the inside of the pail that magnetizes to your brush and keeps it in place. And of course, who doesn't like paint liners? These paint liners fit perfectly in the Handy Paint Pail, and the liners are oh-so-easy to throw away after using! No clean up required, besides washing your paint brush of course. These are two must haves for any painting project!
Curious about how the painting in the other rooms of our house have turned out? Well we are almost completely finished painting. Stay tuned for more updates!
In the meantime...
Happy Painting!
Nice! It definitely needed some color. It must be glorious to rid yourself of white walls--hehe! ;)
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome.
ReplyDeleteRhoni@ckybooks.com
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Rita - Yes, the white walls had to go! Why not cover them with a little green?
ReplyDeleteThanks Rhoni! You must like green, too. :)
ReplyDeleteJennifer-
ReplyDeleteI'm part of the Dutch Boy marketing team and I came across your blog through my Google analytics. I would have much rather emailed you, but I couldn't find your contact information. Our campaign restoremydecor.com, currently has a few contests that offer some really good prizes. One of them is uploading before and after photos of rooms in your house for the chance to win a Visa gift card. I thought that since you're a new homeowner you might want to check the site out as well as take advantage of the giveaways. Honeslty, the room transisition you did from "white" to "green" is exactly what we're looking for. And since you used Dutch Boy paint, that's even better! Great job on the blogs, and good luck with the future success of them. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at jspike@womfire.com.
Hello newsjunkie25,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for taking the time to let me know about contests on restoremydecor.com and for the compliments. I will definitely enter the contest. Dutch Boy has been used in my family for many generations. It's the best!