Well, you see how long that lasted. :)
Back to the walls. The plan is to cover the entire room in Sherwin-Williams "Requisite Gray" (which we will be color matching at HomeDepot for a more affordable option). This color passed the daytime into nighttime test on all four walls unlike some previous contenders. It still looked gray everywhere...not even a hint of purple. Phew! But then during testing we got the crazy idea to take our painting a little bit further....and we did this....
And now for the buzzkill...
That's actually just paper from our Stendig Calendar that we taped to the fireplace as a way to test the concept. It still really looks like this:
But we're torn. Should we take the plunge? The white definitely looks more modern, but we love a good brick accent. The wall we knocked out in our kitchen for our beer tap is one of our favorite projects in the house:
But something about the fireplace brick just doesn't look as cool. The good news is the white calendar paper is pretty convincing and so we feel like we already know exactly how it will look. Plus, we took the liberty of asking our pretend friends John & Sherry Petersik of Young House Love what they think and Sherry says:
We're not ones to argue with two people who have made blogging about their decorating sense a full time job. And clearly we are also not above a little shameless self-promotion over the fact that they answered our email (!!!), so basically - its all but a done deal. But we're still open to opinions.
Do you have one?
I am obsessed Young House Love! So jealous that you had an email conversation with the Petersiks! My vote - go for the white.
ReplyDeleteBTW: Your wedding was gorgeous and oh so fun!
Shannon Solis