So I looked back and it was actually over a YEAR ago. I'll blame pregnancy and my husbands very strong opinion on pregnant women being around paint and paint fumes.
I, at first, hated the white white. It was so stark to me against the bright colors of our other walls and was not the calming transition or restful place for my eyes that I thought it would be. I liked how it set off our wood floors and the blue but the stark white!! Ahhhhh I needed something! Now, after getting over the initial shock of the school bus yellow becoming white I like it. I"m obviously used to it by now and I think a future buyer will appreciate it more than they would the yellow. This picture was snapped at dusk and doesn't show the true color but you get the idea of how not yellow it is.
As you can see I have not changed anything else about the room. I considered different curtains because they seemed so dark against the white but they've grown on me and match the chairs perfectly so they are staying. Plus we will be saying goodbye to our house in the next 8 months or so (cross yo fingers) and I don't want to invest in curtains for windows that I most likely will not have that size of in a different house. No worries I am going to change out my awful curtain rod. Was I on crack when I thought those leaf finials would be good looking? Ugh... they taunt me. I have also learned my lesson and will never have super skinny curtain rods again. They are no one's friend.
I also have not changed the light fixture because in the 3 years we have lived here I have not found one I like enough to install until now. Until it's too late. Until my husband has said we are not investing one more dime into this house and I can't get it. I kind of agree but stilllllllll let me get it and show the future owners how much cuter this room could be!! Envision this: a mid century modern three tiered brass drum shade..... perfect. But never going to hang in this room... I'll get over it.
Well I decided not to stencil anything on the walls because in all likelihood the future owners will not appreciate metallic stenciling and we would have to shell out a few hundred to repaint. By the way.... I decided to take on my painting project 3 days before I was to host a surprise birthday party at my house for my Mom before Christmas. And that yellow took a coat of primer and 3 coats of paint. I was not a happy camper and couldn't even complain to my Mom about it because I couldn't let on that I had a deadline of Thursday to get the dang thing done and I had started back to work part time. I was on a train back from crazy town that week and I couldn't even complain about it!!! That's the worst right? When you have done something stupid and just want to whine to someone about it and you can't...
Anyways a lesson learned about myself. I was always one of those people who said "I will neverrrrr have a white wall in my house, how borrrrrring and uncreative". I have now learned how a "white" room can be beautiful (mine is not technically beautiful but, in a way) if you have the right combination of beautiful furniture that you want to set off and art work to compliment the white background. Now a white room with a black metal futon and those awful round chairs from pier one are not going to do it but some pretty antiques, pops of color and good looking wood floors are a nice place to start.
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