It's been weeks since I've been able to sit down and write another entry. When we began our home beautiful makeover, the plan was to work on one room of the house at a time before we moved onto the next. We soon realised this was not a viable option and not very smart.
The amount of dust on the walls and floors just from working on the lounge room alone was incredible and found that it quickly spread through the rest of the house. We loathe the idea of having dust covering our newly wallpapered feature wall. Working on our adjoining rooms - entry hall/dining room would most certainly create more dust and we don't want to ruin our paintwork or wallpaper nor create more work for ourselves - cleaning dust from freshly painted walls and wallpaper! So the decision was made to prepare and paint all the ceilings and wall surfaces of these rooms before proceeding with hanging the wallpaper.
So I bet you are wondering where we are at? We have managed to prepare and sand back all the walls/ceilings of our other rooms. We have painted the ceiling in the lounge room, have applied one coat of ceiling paint in the hall way and painted the architraves in the dining room. So we still have a fair bit of painting to do before the ceilings in both the dining room and entry hall are ready.
Then it's onto painting the walls. But finding the right shade for these walls is proving difficult. I've bought numerous sample pots of paint and each time the colour has not been right - I'm still searching for that elusive colour, an amazing grey colour, not too dark and not too light, but just right - I sound like Goldilocks don't I? The grey in the walls will be complimented by the white ceilings and the white gloss to be applied to the skirting boards. Paired with the wallpaper and our black pendant shade chandeliers and black silk covered wall sconces, I think this room will look amazing.
The accent colour to be used in the decor will be teal and one other - yet to be chosen.
As you can tell, making over our home is going to be a very very slow process; afterall, the only 'free' time we have to work on the house is the weekend!
