Painting The Living Room

Carrie

11 years ago

If you follow Carrie This Home on Pinterest, you’ve seen me pin A LOT of inspiration for blue paint colors.

When we first bought our house, almost every single wall was white.

Very bland. Very boring. Very much in need of life.

So we picked a tan paint color called Dune and loved it. We used this tan color in several rooms in our house and it gave the life we were looking for.

Well, for awhile at least.

Here we are six years later and every time I sit in the living room I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of beige. We have beige walls EVERYWHERE.

Pinterest wasn’t around when I originally picked paint colors so I had almost zero inspiration/ideas for cool paint colors.

I set out online {and to every local store that sold paint} to find some inspiration my new living room color.

It was so hard for me to pick a color. I literally spent hours and hours looking at colors. I had about a gazillion paint color sample strips taped to the walls. After tons of searching I decided I wanted to paint the rooms a navy blue.

I wanted a deep, rich blue color like this from Our Fifth House. I love the richness of this bold blue color and how the white accents pop against it. We also have cherry wood colored furniture and this picture convinced me that a navy blue would work with our current furniture.

I was in love and ready to make a commitment with navy blue.

On the other hand, my hubby wanted a color that was lighter.

So we compromised. We picked Thunderhead from Valspar. It was lighter than what I wanted and darker than what The Hubby wanted. Right smack in the middle.

Marriage is all about compromise, right?