Today, I am happy to report that both guest rooms in the new house are painted (hooray!). It's safe to say at this point, I am completely and utterly sick of painting walls...but I still have a little bit more to do. ugh. Anyway, let's focus on the positive! The guest rooms are done!
As I mentioned before, the entire house was painted in colors that I wasn't really crazy about (I like to keep things on the neutral side), but these guest rooms were the worst in my opinion. In fairness, they were kids' rooms and I remember a time when I wanted a lime green room too but that time is not now. :) The before pictures you see here are from our original house listing.
Guest Room 1:
As you can see, this room was done in fairly bright shades of blue. I went with my go-to paint color, Revere Pewter (half strength), that I've done the main areas of the house in for the top and Behr's White Truffle for the bottom. I wasn't sure exactly what colors we would be using in here since guest rooms tend to get hand-me-downs and whatever you can find, so I thought keeping it really neutral would be the best way to go.
Guest Room 2
This room...oh my. It took your breath away. We had to keep the door of this room shut until I painted it because you could see it from our bedroom and it was just blinding. I painted it in a minty blue color that is impossible to photograph with accuracy but the after photo is the closest that I could get. It's actually still a bit bright in real life (compared to the rest of our house), but it is a lot easier on the eyes than the green. With the chalkboard paint on one wall combined with this color, it took seeevvveral coats to get this room done (did I mention I'm tired of painting?).
Let me know what you guys think in the comments below, and have a great week! xo!
I love the Glidden Almost Aqua, it's beautiful! If you don't mind me asking, how did you paint it half strength? Did you just paint it on sheer, or did you dilute the colour by mixing with white? Thanks in advance :)
ReplyDeleteHey Kita! Thank you! That's just something that I recently heard about and I was so excited because typically colors that I love are just too dark for my liking (I like almost white colors typically haha) - All you have to do is tell them to mix it that way at Home Depot or wherever you go. Just say that you want it "half strength" or "half tint" or some people say 50% color, and they will basically add half white to the color to tone it down. You can also do 75% or any other percentage! I hope that helps :)
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