Nobody ever said The Incredibly Brown Room didn’t need a makeover:
But the options were unlimited! I ended up making Angela pick the colours, and got Kerry to approve them (which she did, but with some conditions, like only one accent wall). We used Debbie Travis colours and C-I-L paints. I won’t use C-I-L again: I’ve used worse, but I’ve used better too: better is better.
Prime Time!
They don’t call it Caution Yellow for nothing.
Caution Yellow on fire!
Did you know that under halogen lights Caution Yellow turns Cantaloupe Orange?
A single accent wall in Honky Tonk. (Thanks Kerry, good call!)
The Incredibly Brown Room is gone!
Do you like it? It’s okay, you can be honest. I haven’t decided yet, and am withholding final judement until the trim is done and there’s something to look at besides the walls, like furniture and art. Even if I end up not loving it, I already love it way more than brown.
I think I like it…hard to tell from these pictures. Brave move with the Honky Tonk. The room looks so much sunnier than in its previous state. The floors look great with the makeover. I love a room after it is painted…even when I am not sure about the colour…I have a incredible sense of accomplishment. I used to feel the same when I wall papered. I would leave the room and look in the doorway after each strip was completed to see what the room would look like when I finished. My kids hated when I papered though…apparently I wasn’t the most pleasant paper hanger. Good job. What’s next?
I think I like it, but I don’t have to live with it. And certainly, anything’s better than the brown. And even if you need some change again, you might only need to change one wall. Congrats. &
Happy New Year!
Michelle will post her own comment later.
I like it. Nice colours for an office or living room. Nice, high energy feel. And much better than BROWN.
The brown… I used to be very anti-brown, but I have a friend who has done wonders with brown and blue in her own home. However, there is something very milk-chocolatey about your former brown walls: so much so that if I had visited your home I would have been very tempted to lick those walls.
But brown is the ultimate in blandness. A perfect colour to use up to repaint the storage room in the basement. It did not go with the golden hardwood floors at all – and that is very unexcusable.
I adore the yellow – a great little room to spend time in during the winter to feel revitalized and happy. I’m not sure about the “Honky Tonk” or its ability to work with the yellow. I will say I am cautiously optomistic, that with your eclectic (or what seems eclectic via your blog) decorating taste, it will look utterly faboo once you get settled into it.
Final comment: MUCH better than the brown!
Thanks everybody – great feedback! My problem with the Honky Tonk is that it’s much greener than I expected. I was going for a more turquoisey blue. Kerry did warn me that the yellow, being such an energetic colour, would vibrate against the turquoise, so maybe that’s where the green is coming from. (I honestly had no idea what she was talking about, but she sounded pretty confident about it.)
I’m hoping that the white trim, white curtains, and maybe some white accessories might make the green Honky Tonk bluer. But even if it doesn’t, the room has a pretty good, high-energy, creative feel to it. And Gillian, good point about only needing to re-paint one wall if I decide I don’t like the Honky Tonk. I could be just one wall away from LOVING it.
Any ideas on what colour that one wall should be if I re-paint it?