Showing posts with label gray. Show all posts

Take Me to the Beach Tablescape!

Greetings Friends, hope you have had a restful weekend! If not, maybe you will find today's post soothing. Take me to the Beach! is my latest tablescape. Since my color palette reflects ocean and driftwood hues, I thoroughly enjoyed this project. Drawing from my source of inspiration, I took a relaxed approach and allowed several days to arrange, rearrange and just play with it! As usual, I am setting my table with a collection of thrifted treasures...

CONTINUE READING & DON'T MISS A THING!

Refresh Your Home: DIY Painted Furniture

Happy Wednesday Friends! Recently, I have been on a mission to refresh my home and have been painting like crazy! Since my hallway, dining and living spaces are freshly painted I wanted to upgrade a few accent pieces as well. The great thing about painting furniture is that you can always repaint and believe me, I do! I usually start with a light sanding, apply satin latex paint with a foam brush and finish with a light coat of wax. Here, I painted the sofa table from sage green to gray.

CONTINUE READING & DON'T MISS A THING!

Refresh Your Home: My Happy Accident

Happy Wednesday Friends! As self prescribed therapy I have been in somewhat of a painting frenzy--my goal is to refresh my home while also keeping my sanity! After completing my dining

and living rooms, the hallway was next. Here is the previous mocha color:

The shade I pictured in my mind was a pale robin's egg hue. I wish I could tell you I got it right the first time, but my first attempt was an epic fail! The mixed paint color matched the paint swatch which looked perfect held against the wall. However, I did not anticipate how the lighting or lack of in the narrow hallway would affect the color when actually on the walls. While the daylight color was acceptable, at night the color under my hall lighting glowed an eerie pistachio green--I kid you not! Unfortunately, in my zeal to finish I did not realize this until I completed the whole hallway! The good news is I do have a happy ending that happened almost on accident...