bedroom peak

My bedroom is (finally) approaching being done, and I figured this one corner is now finished enough to share, although I’m still thinking about painting the chair black. The wall color is Benjamin Moore’s Temptation (1609) and I *love* it. It’s a charcoal gray with a lot of pink, purple, and blue undertones, and is [...]

beach house update III

This project has officially taken over my life. Luckily, the end is actually finally in sight. (although I’ve thought this before and been proven wrong.) T. and I are down here right now and will actually finish painting the inside of the house this weekend (this is attempt #3 for this particular project.) Then we’re [...]

beach house update I

So far we’re still on schedule with the painting – the bathroom is finished, the bedroom is mostly there, and we’ll start on the living room and dining/kitchen today. But I thought I would take a break and share this photo: On Monday we painted that niche blue (Benjamin Moore’s Summer Nights, #777) and hung [...]

at last

I *finally* went and bought the paint for the living room paint today – I think I put swatches up . . . four months ago? So I may be rather MIA the next few days, between working, doing homework and trying to paint. Actual before and after pictures will be coming when I’m done. [...]

Painted built-ins

In my pre-party decorating craze a few weeks ago I decided to paint the inside of our dining room built ins. You can see the before here and here. Here is the after: As you can see, the color is really bright (I’ve used this same color, Pratt & Lambert Capri Grotto 25-7 in semi-gloss, [...]

paint colors

Oh my, I almost forgot to post tonight. So I don’t really have any pictures or anything planned (although I have a post for tomorrow all mapped out, just not the energy to write it all up right now.) I mentioned a few days ago that T. has finally relented and is going to allow [...]

hallway redux

So, remember the failed silver hallway? Last week I finally got around to re-painting it. I based my color scheme off of this amazing vintage fabric I picked up a few months ago at the Alameda Flea Market (5 yards for $20) that I used to recover a chair I found the same day (best [...]

painted headboard

Another recent project to share with you. Our newly painted headboard. It’s just a rectangle painted straight onto the wall done one shade darker than the walls (the walls are Benjamin Moore’s Sweet Pear in Aura eggshell, the headboard is Benjamin Moore’s Golden Delicious in regular semi-gloss.) It’s very subtle and I’m really happy with [...]

changes

Lately I’ve been wanting to paint my living room pale blue. Here are a few of rooms that have been inspiring me. Kim’s (of Four Beds Two Baths) kitchen Courtney from Style Court‘s guest bedroom flickr user miss moon‘s bedroom  

powder room

I recently redecorated the front-hall powder room at my parents’ house for them and thought I would share it will you all. Unfortunately, we forgot to take “before” pictures, but to sum it up it was painted tan and had lots of Japanese knicknacks and dark wood in it (my parents lived in Japan for [...]