New room to decorate!!!
Sun, 27 May 2007So I have kicked Jeff into the basement (ha - it was his idea) so now I get to take over his office. It's a pretty small bedroom, maybe 10x10. I have some white Ikea bookshelves in there that I happily removed from my dining room, a round white table with white wicker chairs, and a teak-ish dresser that back in the day was one of my mom's first furniture purchases. I am telling you all this because I am on my way to Home Depot shortly to get some paint for my new room. I was initially thinking a pale pink because I have a pink obsession, but I don't think pink would go so well with teak. Then it hit me. Wary Meyers turquoise.
Jo enthusiastically agreed with me this morning, so I printed off the first photo above and I'm going to attempt to match this at the depot. Wish me luck.
UPDATE: I'm back with a gallon of Behr's Sweet Rhapsody, which I think is brighter than the one in the photo - but it was my fav. I found out turquoise is as hard a colour to choose as blue is. Also found an awesome Debbie Travis rug that was about 60% off. Love a great deal. Will post pics here or on Flickr tomorrow.
Reader Comments (11)
Oooh! Oooh! I loved that room for a long time. Can't wait to see your before and after pictures!
It's almost impossible to find the perfect turquoise or that elusive pale blue. Can't wait to see the room. I must say Kim you're the fastest painter I know! Come and visit when I buy my new place. I'm sure I'll find something for you to do ;)
Oh, I remember how excited I was when I moved into my first office in our house. Very exciting! Turquoise is my all time favorite color, I'm sure it will be wonderful.
OK - so I'm done painting. Started at 1 pm and finished at 5:30pm. Not too shabby, cause I am a speed painter. I hate painting so I do it as fast as I can without making a mess so I can get it done before I get fed up. So the colour I chose? EEEKKKKK. It was so bright, even Jeff laughed and told me I had better have a plan B. I did. I went into my paint stash, got some white, and mixed up what turned out to be a FANTASTIC turquoise. I LOVE IT. I don't have much going on in that room yet but I'll take some pics tomorrow anyway. And Jo, you buy me a ticket and I'm there!
ooooh pictures :) oooh come to Australia Kim! we'll have a small "desire to inspire" cocktail event!
drey, if it didn't cost a trillion dollars to fly there I would LOVE to go. Particularly to meet my blog partner and dear friend whom I've never met and whose voice I've never even heard. And I put a couple of pics up on Flickr earlier.
i love the color in these pictures. the weird thing about this living room is that when it was featured in domino, they made a big point to discuss that the color is tiffany blue...it did look really different in the magazine.
but i painted one of the bedrooms in my parents' house this turquoise color.
Kim, you are such an amazing painter, wish you'd come give me a hand. Can't wait to see the finished product!
Pink, you too can fly me out there and I'd be happy to help. ;) I have rearranged the furniture in the room about 6 times already and nothing seems to work. And the carpet looks really dark against the walls. My frustration level is rising. I may post a couple pics on Flickr - y'all can give me some ideas.
BM's "icy moon drops" is the perfect turquoise. I highly recommend it. the paint chip looks pale blue... but don't be fooled!
Peter, where were you yesterday morning before I left to buy paint??? ;) I will note that colour for next time.