Install, stain and finish baseboards, window trim, door trim and even the new door.Install new flooring and poly the crap out of it.Paint the ceiling a bright white (Benjamin Moore’s ceiling paint is my all time favorite).I think that’s a cue for the to-do list recap. And I can’t wait to get to the decorating part of this room’s makeover, adding pops of green and coral all over the place.īut alas, there is still so much left to do in this space on the “heavy construction” part. I was a little nervous at first whether or not I chose the right paint color, but after it dried and I tacked up the napkins to the wall I knew we had made the right choice. It only took a couple of hours to paint the entire space, the one bonus of having a small bedroom. I had just as many screw ups, if not more, by taping a room than I did by carefully cutting in, so a cutter inner am now. I used to do that but found that I spent alot of time taping and the result wasn’t always perfect. I’m not a much of a fan of taping a room for painting. And of course Goose photo bombed since that’s what Gooses do. It’s almost satin like.Īnyway…I started by cutting in all the corners and spaces where the wall meets the ceiling. Imagine that! The coverage was impeccable and the eggshell finish feels a little more silkier than eggshell. I’m not gonna lie, I loved it! It was the first time that I used a “one coat paint” that actually worked in “one coat”. I’ve used the Benjamin Moore ceiling point religiously and loved it so it was time for a wall paint try. I’ve been a pretty loyal Valspar fan until recently when they changed their formula and jacked their prices. This was our first attempt at using Benjamin Moore wall paint. So home we came with a gallon of Himalayan Trek in Eggshell. But I was DYING to paint the room this past weekend, thus a snow storm and color deliberations weren’t about to stop me. It’s pretty close with just a little more gray in the wall color than the color in the napkin. Essentially, I tried to duplicate that color. The Himalayan Trek color was the closest chip to the taupe-ie grey color in the napkin. Instead, I turned to the Privet House for Target napkins that I picked up last year (they’re my color inspiration for the guest bedroom) and picked the paint chip that best complemented the colors in the napkin.Īnd with Nemo about to hit us at full force, I quickly chose Benjamin Moore’s Himalayan Trek wall paint and ran to the Aubuchon Hardware to pick it up just as the snow started coming down, and only 15 minutes before the store was closing. I wish I could tell you that we “hemmed and hawed” over the wall color, tested out the paint chips in the room during various times of day and light, and made an informed decision after serious deliberations. And just like that, our guest bedroom is officially painted.
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