- Finish our taxes (eh hem, start and finish our taxes)
- Work in the yard
- Paint the nursery
- Possibly paint sections of the dining room. Remember? This dining room that we were supposed to paint the bottom section of back in JULY of 2011? Yeah, we never got back to that...
The good news: The taxes are done.
Moving on to my problem. Hops can work in the yard all he wants, he has the supplies to do that. He cannot paint the nursery, though, until I give him paint colors to work with. I'm stumped. I've been going back and forth and back and forth and can't seem to make up my mind. We're not artsy types (I can hardly draw a stick figure person in Draw Something) so we're not going to go with stripes or anything like that on the walls. I want just plain simply painted walls. At first I thought we would go with seafoam. Then, I really started liking the look of a bold coral color. The problem with the coral is it is so in-your-face that I don't think we can do all of the walls in that color.
Here's what will be the nursery looked like a few weeks ago (there haven't been enough updates to post new pictures yet). The wall to the right of the window will be our accent (coral) wall and will have the crib up against it. The rest of the walls will be some other color.
Coral wall will be behind where the bookshelf is now.
Here's what will be the nursery looked like a few weeks ago (there haven't been enough updates to post new pictures yet). The wall to the right of the window will be our accent (coral) wall and will have the crib up against it. The rest of the walls will be some other color.
Coral wall will be behind where the bookshelf is now.
So, here's my dilemma. We paint the one focus wall coral and paint the rest of the walls.....what? I've been probably bugging everyone who follows my Pinterest boards with color dumps today. Here are some of the color ideas I have been looking at. We're still on the chocolate, seafoam and coral color combo idea. So, now it's just a decision of what to put on those other walls. Yellow? Tan? Or go crazy and do seafoam? I don't know if I'm that crazy......
I pulled all of these boards from design-seeds.com. Not all of these corals are what I am going for but they work to show contrast to a shade close enough. The Stork coral color (6 down from top) is what I'm leaning towards.
Tan or Cream?
Tan?
Peach?
Light seafoam (color on the far left)? It's a bit blue for what I'm looking for but I might be able to find something like it in a shade that is green rather than blue. I like the lightness of it.
Yellow?
Again with the tan...although that purpley color isn't bad (far left)
Tan again.
Peach
As I was putting this together, I came across this picture. Could we actually go crazy and do something like this?
Second color over plus:
Second to last color.
So...what do you think? Go basic and do a tan, cream or white on the walls other than the accent walls or do a seafoam on the other walls? Please my friends, help a girl who isn't very coordinated with colors out.
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9 comments:
I love the light blue as a contrast!
I love the sea foam BUT I think all that color might overpower the room. If it was me, I think I'd go with a tan :)
I love the purple-gray color in the silk tones board - something a little more gray, less purple could be amazing.
The bottom one in your stacks at the end - tan. So beachy, and I love that the neutrality of the other three walls will make the fourth wall CORAL! and not just coral.
Ooooh, Jen! Good point with the beachy look!
I like the very last coral + tan combo, because I think the tan will be a nice backdrop for all of your other beachy decor elements.
Or, have you considered a very light grey with seafoam undertones? That might tie in really nicely as well, just depending on if you're looking for a cooler or warmer color scheme. Coral is warmer and seafoam is cooler, so really, you could go either way, although I always associate the beach with a cooler color palette.
P.S. what's your username on Draw Something? Mine is the same as my twitter handle, we should play!
Ok, I keep thinking about all your pretty colors, so had to come back!
Anyway, not that you need another option to confuse things, but I think something like this might go really well with your coral accent wall, and your seafoam accessories. It has green undertones (at least on my monitor!), but is really neutral at the same time, to let your main nursery colors shine.
http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/cascadewhite
I like that...and I love that you went looking for colors. :)
I love the sea foam and coral together! Cute blog. Found you via hellobee. I am Mrs Bicycle!
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