Friday feature, Favorite paint colors blog

Welcome to this weeks Friday feature, Favorite Paint Colors, a blog created by Kristin, a stay at home mom, to make picking out that perfect color a little less stressful. Her site is a compilation of favorite paint colors from around blog land, categorized by color and room. You’ll find painting tips and trends for interior and exterior colors. 

I think this is a great idea! Even with the variance in colors on computer monitors, you can still get a feeling for how a color will look in a room.

Here are some inspiring examples.

Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams Life in Grace helps create a dreamy bedroom!

Surfer by Behr Everyday Moments  is a fun color in the bathroom.

Black Fox by Sherwin Williams   Hello Metro If you’ve ever wondered what black walls would look like, here you go. Paired with white, it’s a stunning sophisticated look.

Hawthorne Yellow by Benjamin Moore  Chattafabulous  Yellow and black have always been a favorite combo of mine.

Dunsmore Cream by Benjamin Moore The Polo House  is a lovely neutral and look at that door. There’s lots of decorating inspiration at Favorite Paint Colors too.

Flagstone by Martha Stewart (Home Depot) Numbered Street Designs  Grays are popular now and this gray looks so calming in the nursery. I love the pink accents.

Shutter Brown by Valspar (Lowe’s) Beneath My Heart looks lovely above the board and batten.

 

Glass Slipper by Benjamin Moore The Thrifty Abode is a pretty color in the bedroom, serene and quiet.

Plumage by Martha Stewart Young House Love If you like a darker blue, the colors in this bedroom are so pretty.

Benjamin Moore’s color of the year 2012, wythe blue. This is probably my favorite blue.

  If you need tips for finding the right color, painting stripes or painting cabinets, you’ll find Favorite Paint Colors blog a useful tool and site for inspiration. New colors are added all the time and you can even submit a color you’ve used. I’ve pinned this site because I know I’ll refer to it often. Be sure to go on over and check it out, you might want to pin it too!

                                    

With so many great blogs all over the blog-o-sphere, Friday Feature  is a way to showcase other bloggers while gaining lots of decorating inspiration. If you have a project or makeover that you think is feature worthy,  please email me or leave a comment.

Debbie (((xx)))

Project board and batten/Paint colors

Last year I was all set to start a board and batten project in the family room. Originally, I wanted board and batten in the small guest room but changed my mind.  I posted about it Here and Here, wondering how long the trend would last.

Last winter my husband fell on ice in our driveway, had a concussion and the project was stalled. Then Summer came and he is busybusybusy, so no board and batten, until now. The cold months of winter are perfect for us to do projects, if we can manage to work together and be nice!

Good bye Laura Ashley gold, hello Benjamin Moore palladian blue.

We put up a chalk line and I started painting palladian blue on top. I always prefer greens over blues, but this color has enough green in it to keep me content.

Ultra white, in semi-gloss from Valspar, is going on the bottom.

The board, of the board and batten, will go on top of the wavy line. With the new color scheme, the gray stone fireplace is looking great.

Benjamin Moore has chosen wythe blue as their color of the year 2012. On the color strip, palladian blue is under it, and is pretty close in color to SW rainwashed and SW sea salt. Sea salt looks a little more gray in this picture.

My Mom used wythe blue and hollingsworth green in her living room. She actually marked the x and the o on the color strip. I think she would approve of my color choice.

 

 

 

Which color of the year do you prefer?

Tangerine tango from Pantone,

 

           Wythe blue from Benjamin Moore or

 

 

           Sherwin William’s argyle?

 

 

 

 

I’ll be posting more about our progress on this project, wish me luck!

 

Debbie (((xx)))

Building shelves for basement organization, part 2

Meet our beautiful and lovely DIY shelves in the basement. They’re 15 feet long, 24 inches deep, hold a ton of stuff and are beautiful and lovely to me.

In part 1, you can see how we created the frames for the shelves. Then we screwed them into the wall studs and added 2 x 4 legs at the ends. The particle board shelves are just laid on the frames. Because they’re screwed into studs, we didn’t feel we needed more legs in the middle.

Working together with my husband isn’t fun. He’s OCD and very difficult to work with. Everything must be perfect, as in level, even, plumb, square and precisely measured. I might measure at 6 and a little bit past 1/2, so I don’t do much measuring. If it’s off more than a hair, I’m in trouble. I’ve learned that perfect is called dead nuts, but being off by a wuss hair is acceptable too. It goes from dead nuts, to a wuss hair to a hair. In some instances a hair is acceptable too.

I feel like yelling, “hello, down there.”

The space between the 10 foot section and the 5 foot section created a little space to slide in large things like mirrors, etc.

From the other end, “hello up there!”

These shelves take the phrase, ‘shop the house,’ to a whole new level. I know I have too much stuff, and with this storage system I can see what I have and won’t bring anything new into the house unless I get rid of something else.

There’s actually free floor space. You could even work out.

Here’s the full view with more empty floor space.

This table is where I do messy crafts.

Here’s the tool corner and that’s the miter saw covered up. I told you OCD! You can see the entry to the smaller room where we store the patio furniture.

 

I do love the shelves, and if you measured, I will guarantee, that they aren’t off anywhere by more than a wuss hair !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you tell which tools are mine and which are his?

Wish me luck with our next DIY project., There’s more about that next.

Added to Tutorials and Tips @ Home Stories a 2 z

Met Monday at Between naps on the porch

I’m Lovin It @Tidy Mom

                                

The winner of the Shabby Apple giveaway is Elise. Congratulations. Thank you to everyone who entered.

Debbie (((xx)))

Building shelves for basement organization, Part 1

Keeping the basement neat and organized is something I try to do and fail at miserably! I finally talked my husband into building sturdy wooden shelves that would provide all the storage I needed. This was a basic DIY project using 2 x 4’s and particle board. Thank goodness there’s a Lowe’s really close by, all we do is leave our sub division, go to the red light, turn, and you’re there. 

Piles of stuff, surrounded by piles of stuff, surround exercise equipment! If you wanted to use it you couldn’t even get to it.

Here we’ve already started building the shelves, but just looking at all this clutter makes me sick.

A bike and a scarf on a treadmill? Could you ride a bike on a treadmill?

This metal closet separates the junk area from the tool area, which is slightly more organized.

From the tool area looking toward the junk area.

 

This is a corner of the tool area.

The arrow is pointing to another room, approximately 15 x 15, where I keep all my paint and store patio furniture in winter.

Putting the shelves together was fairly simple. We built a 10 foot section and a 5 foot section, each with 3 shelves, between the basement support columns. Because the wall was left unfinished, the screw heads in the studs could been seen, shown by the blue lines. The red line is the chalk line we snapped after using a laser level to get it straight.

We put together the frames before screwing them into the wall studs. You can see one finished frame on the floor.

Sorry to end here, part 2 of this project is coming up next. It’s a beautiful sight to behold!

 

Debbie (((xx)))

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