Painting - Before and After

Towards the end of last week I decided that the living room/dining room really needed painting before I bring my dining room set up from down south.  Especially since that room's paint had been sitting in the way since early March.  Here's a look at the former wall color, with some of my autumn/Halloween decor for contrast.

 

Now here's the same view with the new paint on the walls.

 

I love love LOVE the new color!  And as an aside, don't Kat's hats look great in that random Halloween bag I did up a while back?  They look absolutely fab against the new paint too!

 

 

I can't wait to get my dining room furniture here and in place.  The chairs are actually here but need reupholstering... quite literally.  There's nothing left of the original materials, only the wooden frames remain.  That will be an upcoming project, perhaps next week.

I've got to get back to real life house work again.  We're having company for the weekend and I"m hoping to get all the random clutter, laundry, etc out of the way so I can scrub, vacuum, and mop on Friday morning.  I'll also be doing some baking later in the week.

Faux Stained Glass

There's a lovely window in my miniature area that looks out onto the garden. However the height of the window allows for a good deal of sunlight coming in all day... and it's aimed right at my painted dollhouses.
So I fixed it.It took one and two thirds panels of "Wisteria" by Art Glass to do it, but I am in love with the result. The light still pours in at the bottom for kitties to nap in and my miniatures are protected more from fading.

I'm heading back to work now! :-)

Colors In the Bedroom

Here's a quick post to show off the color palette in our bedroom. I still haven't had the time to paint the border around the room, but I really think the chocolate brown, dark plum, and the brownish-peach look nice together.

Colors of the Rainbow

I've been playing with color palettes for the new house and have gotten two decisions made and am working on a third. I have to apologize about the quality of them pictures. The camera isn't doing the colors justice.

First is our bedroom.The walls will be the peachy-brown color, trim will be the corresponding "not-quite white" color above it. Then I will be using one of the two purples to paint an abstract boarder around the room. The boarder will be about the same height as you would put a chair rail. I thought about painting it higher up but I want to put crown moulding in there at some point and don't want to have to repaint. I'm also in the market for a dark brown comforter for the bed.

Second is my sewing room/the guest room.
I'm keeping this one a bit simpler... just the two top colors. Like our room, I'm pondering a painted border around the room. This time it would be in the same color as the trim and I would probably use a stencil for a hand quilting design for the border.

This brings me to the upstairs bath. It's not what I really want to do decor wise, but I'm going to be using what I have on had because I already own it. Eventually I will replace the flowers with something more south western to match the rest of the public areas of the upstairs. But for now I'm using what I have and paint isn't as expensive as replacing linens, rugs, etc.

I'm currently torn color-wise because several of the colors in the palettes we like go well with the current linens.
You should recognize this one... it's the same color as the trim for the guest room.Starting at the green and moving to the right (ignore the blue), all three of these would work well.
I think I may have to ponder this one for a while. It may even come down to me going to the new house after we close and seeing what the colors will look like in the space. That's what I have to do with the choices for the kitchen and living room. Those two rooms open into each other, so the colors have to flow together. I need to see what our choices look like against the cabinets, but we're leaning towards shades of terra cotta/orange with other colors that remind me of home.

Eventually the only white walls will be in the furnace room and possibly the laundry room. I am sick and tired of white walls. Heck they might even get painted with warmer neutrals just to get rid of the white. ;-)

A call for color advice

This tiny pillow has been made as part of a "tote bag exchange" for a miniature workshop. The workshop is a roombox in 1" scale done in "Shabby Chic" decor. I'm so not shabby chic, but I wanted to do something new and different for a change.

My question to my fellow miniaturists, to decorators with more talent than me for this sort of thing, and to fiber artists who have an eye for color: Should I embroider any contrasting accents onto the pillow? Or should I just leave it alone? I could always add color to mine after I get the scheme of the room done, but then my friends would either have to go without or do it themselves.

Thanks for any help you can give. I have five more of these to make tonight. The workshop is this weekend, so I have plenty of time to add color after I get them sewn.