When we were notified that we were one of the families that was going to be able to redo a room and that our room was our sleeping porch I knew I had to call my friend Kath. She is an expert colorist, she is an artist, a designer - pretty much if she didn't live in the country and had marketed herself different she could have been Martha Stewart (although, I think she blushes a lot when people tell her that.)
I called her on Tuesday at work and she said she could come on Wednesday afternoon. Not soon enough I was so excited! She brought with her a box of color samples from all over and although they might not have been Glidden (#gliddengallons) she said she was positive I could find exactly what we were looking for when I got to Walmart.
With her excellent eye she took our original idea of black and white and softened it to: A taupe color for the walls, white trim for the outer trim, and a really dark green for the window frames and doors. For the floor she suggested a deep pine green.
Then we talked about sheen and what to paint where and how to paint it all... I know... it was like having my own personal design consultant!
Before she left we made sure that she would come back when we were styling the room... I'm not sure she trusts us, but I'm just happy that she is going to lend her amazing hand to our project.
After that I tweeted with the @Glidden_Paint folks about whether I should use exterior or interior paint. Exterior! And they answered my questions right away and clued me into the idea about porch paint for the floor - I had no idea!
So, that evening, after a really long day of meetings and work I headed over to Walmart to buy the Glidden Brilliance paint for our Porch Makeover (Squee... I am so excited about this.)
When I got there it was pretty quiet, being dinner time, but the Glidden balloons led the way to the paint department and I got busy matching chips. Kath was right! They had exact matches! I even splurged on getting the Glidden Brilliance Floor paint to match the forest green. The poor Walmart paint guys were so patient with me... I knew one of them was ready to get off work, but he mixed all of that paint and waited until I had called my husband to debrief about getting flat paint for the walls. Paint guys must have patience!
Wood Smoke for the walls, Deepest Woodland Green for the doors and window trim and Oyster Shell for the other trim. (I am a little intimidated, we have never used 3 colors in a room or painted trim before... we will see how it goes!) And the floor of the porch was specially mixed (they have premixed porch paint too) Deep Forest Pine. These Glidden colors make me so happy!
I feel, for the first time, that our home is starting to look like a grown ups home instead of a sparkly kids cottage (which was great when our daughter was little, but we are all growing older)! I can't wait to show you what we do with this. We won't start painting until next week, busy schedules, but when we do we will take you all along! There is a coupon on the sidebar for one for $3 off a gallon and one for $3 off 2 testers. That is a great deal and only lasts until 9/11/11. Take advantage of that savings and make a room over too!
Here is the link to MyThisMoment about shopping for the paint.. see how much I love our Walmart paint guys for putting up with me.
This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. All of the opinions, work, and crazy painting days ahead of us are all mine. You can pay me to do something, but you can't make me say something!
