One main color or several colors in your house? (paints, shower, sand)
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golfgal - I was going to suggest the same configuration as denverian did, but I wasn't sure what's behind you (outside of the photo's shot). Is that a computer area on the far right (looks like a mat on the floor).
Love that room and the furniture by the way!
rettogo - yes, I use a lot of painting techniques! I love to experiment (because I always remember "it's just paint"! :-) In that Happy Face room I painted the base a flat Pencil Yellow and then took a square sponge and sponged a checkerboard in the same Pencil Yellow except in a semi-gloss. Depending on where you stood in the room you could see the squares. It was neat actually.
Another favorite technique is paint throwing -- yes, literally throwing the paint. We first painted the walls in a semi-gloss white, then covered the ceiling, windows, doors, floor, and trim with plastic. Next was the messy part, but oh my goodness so fun! We had 4 colors: deep red, hunter green, medium blue, medium purple. We stuck our hands into the quarts and threw the paint on the walls, one color at a time. The splatter patterns made for some truly cool shapes (think how one looks up at clouds and can see bunnies and things :-) The only thing we would have done differently is to not start with the red paint -- looked like a murder scene:-)
Preparation for doing stripes is tedious, but worth the time and effort to do it right. Good painter's tape is essential and won't bleed (or won't bleed that much) if carefully applied. Just take the time to press it down well.
I love doing techniques because they hide mistakes and imperfections. And I've learned from my booboos. For example, in the blue guest room with the dry brush technique, my intent was to create a look similar to the cotton of a blue button-down-collar shirt. The vertical dragging was simple (lots of up and down the ladder), but I didn't think about the horizontal dragging -- I didn't have a scaffold to make the constant across the wall drags. Ooops. No biggie though. The walls look good anyway.
We had the computer there to start but now there is nothing there. It is just a long room. Eventually I would like to put a game table there. There is a half-wall cabinet that sets off the kitchen and this family room. There is one step down into the family room.
I tried putting the chairs on either side of the fireplace but we have to move the couches down too far and the one blocks the patio door. I would like to close in that patio door and just have windows there but that isn't in the plan for many years.
It is just a bad layout all the way around. There isn't enough room at the one end to create a grouping and then where the furniture is now looks cramped because there is so much open space.
We tried having the couch there and it looked ok. I think because we don't have a sofa table it looked a little out of place. Maybe I should just buy a sofa table?? We bought that furniture for our old house and it was specifically for that space, I would have done something totally different in this house had I been buying for this house but the furniture is only a couple years old.
Our dog is actually a rat terrier but she has the colorings of a mini-pin.
Yes, Rat Terriers look similar to MinPins. I think the same wild disposition too!
When we moved into our current house, the furniture we had was too small-scale for our big, open living/dining/kitchen area, so we ended up buying new. It's hard to fit furniture from one house into a new one.
We have a blue kitchen, a (two toned) sage green and grey living room/dining room, a pink hallway with hot pink polka dots, a (three toned) lavender striped master bedroom, a burnt orange office, a turquoise underwater Nemo themed bathroom with fish and seaweed, and the kids room is painted like a fairy tale land with grass/sky and a castle, trees and animals. My husband and I are artistic (he's a musician and I paint), so we like this sort of thing- it sounds crazy but it's very well done. We have nice crown molding and wood floors- it totally works and looks great! It gives our house a lot of character.
I have colors but they flow from room to room... Navy in the LR that opens to my Navy and white dining room- both have red accents and the kitchen that opens through a door to the DR is RED and taupe- the halls off the kitchen are taupe and the other is white and taupe faux painted- FR off the kitchen is taupe... it was a dark dark green that my hubby hated (I miss it)...
Dining room (open to the living room) is Belgian Waffle (a light, goldish-yellow).
Kitchen is Cavern Moss Green. Love it.
Hall bath is Arabian Sands.
Kids' rooms are a very light cream color. We painted them neutral after putting our house on the market. They were lighter before, but in bad shape. In our new house, their rooms will be painted whatever color they want.
Master bedroom is Beach House blue.
Master bathroom is Silky Sails (a light yellow that's just a little darker than our dining room.)
We have a blue kitchen, a (two toned) sage green and grey living room/dining room, a pink hallway with hot pink polka dots, a (three toned) lavender striped master bedroom, a burnt orange office, a turquoise underwater Nemo themed bathroom with fish and seaweed, and the kids room is painted like a fairy tale land with grass/sky and a castle, trees and animals. My husband and I are artistic (he's a musician and I paint), so we like this sort of thing- it sounds crazy but it's very well done. We have nice crown molding and wood floors- it totally works and looks great! It gives our house a lot of character.
Dining room (open to the living room) is Belgian Waffle (a light, goldish-yellow).
Kitchen is Cavern Moss Green. Love it.
Hall bath is Arabian Sands.
Kids' rooms are a very light cream color. We painted them neutral after putting our house on the market. They were lighter before, but in bad shape. In our new house, their rooms will be painted whatever color they want.
Master bedroom is Beach House blue.
Master bathroom is Silky Sails (a light yellow that's just a little darker than our dining room.)
Are these BM paints? We finally know what colors we want and the Cavern Moss Green and Bermuda Sand sounds like colors we are looking for. Also the yellows. Great minds......u know the rest.
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We bought that furniture for our old house and it was specifically for that space, I would have done something totally different in this house had I been buying for this house but the furniture is only a couple years old.
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