We spent our New Year's Eve day painting my room. It's physically located between Brie's room/guest room (sage brown walls with earth tone red/browns/greens) and the our bedroom (warm, saturated blue/black). There was desire to balance the colors, without creating two similar rooms. We played around with lighter blues and yellows, but with the cork flooring the blues made the room look like a nursery and yellows were all too close in tone to the cork so it made the room look like a 1 color cube.
We also know that this room is going to see a lot of art/canvases/framed items hung up and that took most higher note or saturated greens off the table as they would make a terrible backdrop for most of these pieces. We ended up spinning the wheel on a more saturated purple that was warm, but not too heavy.
I also wanted to bring in another grounding color b/c unlike Brie's room where her closet doesn't go to the ceiling, I have this giant wall above the closets and wanted to hedge by using a heavily saturated purple/maroon to sculpt the entrance to the room. This means that from the hallway the room really bursts open after a short, defined entrance and from the interior the room has a strong architectural element anchoring the large wall.
We also swapped the circular flush light for the amazing original 60s pendant light we rescued from The Room.
We'll take some time on Sunday to handle touch ups as well as remove the carpet, baseboards, vents, and maybe even roll out underlayment. I suspect we'll have it floored by next weekend, which will be nice as that's when we're hosting the annual Magic Secret Santa where we build decks for other people in the playgroup.
-S.
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