It's a start

Well I didn't post yesterday like I wanted to but I wasn't ready. Now I'm ready. I cleared off the south wall of the office with the exception of the mirror. I wanted to put up paint chips to see what I thought I wanted. 

Here is the semi empty wall it is currently a light green color:

View from living room.

Beat up wall

I left the mirror and
picture frame temporarily

Behind that curtain is the east wall for your viewing pleasure on another day.

I had a piece of scrapbook paper for inspiration but couldn't quite put my finger on what I wanted. Because originally I had other ideas. Basically, I needed a three color scheme. One neutral style color for the walls another semi darker color for the furniture, and a splash of color for the fabric treatments (curtains and stuff). 

Here is what I was trying to choose from and it wasn't tripping my trigger very well for some reason. I think it was because I had this other color scheme in my mind for so long:

I didn't want the furniture to stick out like a sore thumb so I was looking to paint it with a hammered silver gray but I couldn't tell what it might look like with the wall and the fabric color I had in mind. To find out I spray painted a paint chip with the paint to get a better idea. Then I remembered I had some fabric in the color I was thinking about in a really contemporary texture and I have plenty of it. Not sure if it is enough for all that I want to use it for but I will get to that after I write this post.

Anyway here is what I ultimately came up with:

The brown color at the top is called Meadowlark. It is a tan color with a green tone in it. It is more brown than green. The middle one is the hammered silver color made by Rustoleum. It makes what ever you paint with it look like hammered metal. I am using this on the furniture and shelving for a contemporary clean look. The third color is called Spinnaker which is sort of a blueish green color which is really popular right now. It is also a perfect match to my already on hand fabric. By the way the paint chips are from Glidden.

The textured fabric is woven with a grid pattern with gray/white/silver threads making it a perfect fit with my hammered silver paint. 

By the way I am keeping track of costs and will give you all a breakdown and final cost at the end of the project. So there you have it, I am ready to proceed. Tomorrow I am going to bring home our left over joint compound we loaned out to our church so I can start filling in holes and gouges. If the weather is warm enough I will paint the metal brackets for some of the shelving too. Right now I am going to measure windows and do some calculations. 

TTFN (Ta Ta For Now)

God Bless,

Nancy