When we moved into this house two years ago, after we got back from China - having bought it sight unseen - we knew we had to do something about the deep turquoise master bedroom right away.
This climate can use some bright colors at times, so we decided to make it a good solid clear yellow.
Yellow, even with primer and two coats, over deep turquoise has a tendency to look greenish.
And it wasn't until we had these coats on that we noticed there was something wrong with the woodwork. It was looking grayish. On closer inspection we found it was actually a very pale shade of lavender. NOT GOOD with yellow! It just looked dingey.
So Monday we started painting. Our friend Judy, who is mildly insane in that she adores painting, especially the fussy stuff like woodwork, joined us in Fixing The Room.
What an awesome job she did! We now have yellow yellow walls, and white white woodwork. Last night we went out and bought blue curtains (all we could find, actually, that would fit) and found they went perfectly with an indigo and pure white embroidered coverlet that we brought back from China. And now we have a lovely bedroom!
As you've seen, I've added some photos. I didn't want to leave them at the top, but I can't get them to move...
This room is the only one that NEEDS painting. But it makes the neutral colors professionally done by the seller two years ago look very dull.
As we continue preparing the house to be sold, we are solving problems one room at a time. I'll probably share our successes with you again.
2 comments:
It looks very bright and cheery! Nice job and I do like the curtains :-)
I covet your furniture and bedding. Very, very nice!
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