And the amazing news about Valspar at Ace Hardware is they guarantee you will love the color. :/ And once they get their walls painted they realize the color of their carpet and the shadows in the room makes the gray paint look very purple! GASP!ĭon’t make the same mistake! Just grab a couple samples and try them out in your actual space. SO many times I see friends choosing a color (usually gray, which is really hard to get right) based on their bedding or the color of their side tables… or solely because they saw it being used on a ton of blogs or in magazines.
Next comes your decor, of course, but that part is definitely last. I had these two inspiration images in mind as I was selecting colors.Īfter lighting and orientation of exposures, your floors are the most important factor of your paint color choices. I think its such a fun way to get the best of all worlds – where you get the beautiful light that comes with white walls and the depth and character that comes with a color on the trim and doors. The tan was a terrible color for maximizing the natural light, but the blue I chose after we moved in was pretty sad, too.įor our little makeover, I knew I wanted to do a creamy white on the walls and a contrasting color on the millwork. It’s full, bright sun, spotlight style, for the first few hours of the morning, but then it’s pretty dark the rest of the day. There is only one window in the room (and actually it’s not a window – it’s a paned door) and it is south-east facing, but its also on a little porch so the door is pulled back from the face of the house. Take our funky guest bedroom for instance. What looks great in one blogger’s house just might not be the right fit for your home! It it SO important to get the right color for your space. Too many choices can be so overwhelming, right? But too few can feel frustrating, since not every color looks the same, or good, for that matter, in every house. I think they offer just the right number of color options. I went to Ace to pick up a few paint chips in their Paint Studio (you can find your local Ace here!). Followed by a lighting bolt of inspiration: PAINT THE WALLS WHITE AND THE TRIM A DARKER COLOR! YESSSSSSSsssssss…. I immediately thought of the guest bedroom. It has always bugged me, but apparently not enough to do anything about it for a really long time! Poor Heather had to live with janky paint lines like this for years.Įnter, my friends from Ace Hardware! They invited me to check out their Optimus line from Valspar (which is one of Ace’s best paint brands and is the most stain resistant). We didn’t realize it until it was too late, but we didn’t end up having enough blue paint to do the pitched ceilings, just enough to cover the tan paint.
It was essentially a black wall in a tiny, already dark room. It was an improvement on the tan walls for sure, but still not ideal, right? And those black doors were a pretty idea, but that’s a LOT of door there on that wall. Right after we moved in, when my sister Heather still lived with us and stayed in this room, we painted the doors black, the molding white and used some leftover random light blue paint for the walls. (Yes, astroturf.) Not totally my style I would say. Here’s what it looked like when we first walked the house before buying it. Despite a few efforts to spruce it up over the last few years, it’s always been sort of an afterthought. Our guest room has been an eyesore from day one of moving in.
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