Hey Guys! I promise I'll get this blog thing down and start posting more regularly. But please forgive me, we've been a wee bit busy. Tax free in bridal world this weekend and it was a doozy. {Wedding gowns count as tax free in SC, I'm not complaining}
And when I'm not slinging wedding gowns like its my job I've been painting. Like everything. 3 coats per room. I'm over it. Also picking out paint colors was way more angst ridden and stressful than expected. I will never make fun of a bride who can't choose between two very close shades of blue for her bridesmaid dress. I couldn't choose between 5 very close shades of mint for the hallway. I have more paint samples than I will ever need, but at last we decided!
I knew I wanted to use Benjamin Moore paint colors because I have been absolutely obsessed with Palladium Blue for a while.
Its just a lovely shade of not too green, not too blue and a touch of grey. Perfection. I knew I wanted PB in our bedroom and automatically locked it in. PB led me to its darker neighbor Whythe Blue which was also Benjamin Moore's color of the year in 2012. It got nominated for the living room.
And then came the hallway. Thank goodness for Pinterest because I've been pouring through my past pins to try and find some thread of consistency to help me make the next selection. Thus the mint hallway was choosen. Oh but what shade. I didn't want it to be too little kid room. I also wanted something with a little bit of a grey undertone so the whole house would flow even with different colors room to room. I literally bought 5 different shades of mint and painted them all over the hallway to test for different lighting conditions and what not. In the end the winner was Lido Green. I'm in love.
The hall bath was a little easier since I've been obsessed with
this wallpaper from Anthropologie for years. I think the mint is going to perfectly pick up the color of the butterfly wings. Haven't ordered it yet, but its on the list. Then MLW and I get to venture into wallpaper world. Oh boy.
Matt's room came next. I struggled for a few days with wether or not to do a darker shade of Whyth Blue called Stratton Blue, but was worried that was too many colors off the same paint chip. But then I came across Owl Gray on Emily Henderson's Blog stylebyemilyhenderson.com. She is my fav HGTV designer and if she describes this shade as "This gray can do no wrong. Ever. It's my favorite and best go-to gray of all time" then you better believe it is good enough for me. I'm not normally a fan of a "neutral" but I wanted this room to be more manly and I have a tendency to make everything just a smidge girly. {ok maybe a lot girly}
Our bathroom was another fairly easy one. I've always liked yellow bathrooms so I went with Weston Flax from Ben Moore's historical color collection. Its nice and soft and looks nice coming of the Palladium.
So the only rooms left to decide on are the two guest bedrooms and the kitchen. Eventually the kitchen is going to get a major overhaul so it will probably just have to chill for a while. It is nice to have all the main rooms DONE though. We are living less and less in a disaster zone. I've been absolutely thrilled with everything we've put up on the walls. It was like painting with candy after 2 weeks of painting with KIlZ {which works, but is like painting with Elmer's Glue}. My biggest tip to anyone else looking to pick colors is do your research! All of my colors came highly recommended by some of my favorite blogs, were all over Pinterest or had proven themselves to someone else. When it comes to paint, be a follower!
Love ya'll!
*All paint swatches from
BM's website and purchased through Spectrum Paint in Mount Pleasant. We used the SuperSpec in an eggshell finish and couldn't be happier with the results. They probably think I'm crazy, but I'm ok with that.
