Merry Christmas, Gentle Readers!
For those of you who celebrate Christmas, have a wonderful day tomorrow!
I'll be back with you next week....
Dining room
And the moral of the story is: paint your radiator
Thanks, Uncle Jimmy! Just in time for Christmas, he painted our dining room radiator!
Remember when we talked about radiators? Well, I went to the paint store and bought this Modern Masters metallic paint....
Gray dining room + personalized gallery wall = fabulous!
Not so long ago, I spoke with you about "art walls." We started with WHAT to Hang, then moved on to how to FRAME it, and then how to HANG it.
Seems I got one of my clients all riled up.
There's a gigantic blank wall in her cheerful gray dining room....
On radiators
In my last post, thoughtful Gentle Reader Shirley encouraged me to paint the radiator in my dining room:
I hope you don’t mind me suggesting you also paint the radiator in the same colour [as the walls] so it doesn’t stand out so much.
Then Paul Clark weighed in with this:
If you look at the design of the steam register, it is meant to be highlighted as it gives the room character....
Benjamin Moore’s AC-31 Hot Spring Stones, I love you
It looks beige in the color wheel. I have used this color as beige before. It's pretty.
But I never thought of Benjamin Moore's AC-31 Hot Spring Stones as gray.
Nonetheless, eternal optimist that I am, I was hoping against hope that somehow, in my south-facing-but-still-doesn't-get-a-ton-of-light-thanks-to-the-porch-roof dining room that it would read as a warm gray, not beige....
Gray is tricky
If ever there were a case to be made for putting giant swatches of actual paint on the walls before making a color decision, this is it.
With many, MANY thanks to all of the Gentle Readers who gave me their thoughts and suggestions, we're working with these finalists for my dining room....
On to the dining room! Gray or green?
Now that I have a living room I LOVE - or almost love: Mitchell Gold's Mona Sofette is on its way, and someday I'll eradicate the orange on those darn chairs -
I have to repaint the dining room.
I know, I know. WHERE DOES IT ALL END?? Well, I've assured my long-suffering husband that it ends after the DR is painted. But I might have been lying.
Anyway, you can see the problem, looking from one room into the other....