Paint Color

Have you ever had one of those weeks where the days are going by so slowly but the week seems to be flying by. Does that even make sense? This week is like that for me. I'm still trying to catch up with things after our fun filled weekend and by the end of the day I'm too exhausted to do anything really mentally challenging, so I start playing around with house ideas... like picking out paint colors.

One of the biggest difficulties in getting a room painted for me is to actually pick out the color. I am terrible at this. In the past I have chosen some very bold paint colors and regretted them [the office in our old house was lovingly called the baby poo yellow room].


[Yuck!]

I wanted to avoid making any of these mistakes in the new house so we took a trip to the fabric store for inspiration for a scheme for the room rather than just picking the color that I like and then forming a room around that color.



Fortunately we are close enough to Lancaster, PA to be able to go to the Calico Corner's outlet and save bundles on Fabric.



They have an entire wall of remnants that they have marked down to between 10-50% of their original prices!

Matt and I spent about 2 hours digging through the remnants to find an inspiration fabric for each of the rooms in the house [and I'm sure I could have spent more if they had not closed!]

I had some idea of what the general color scheme was going to be for each room, but I wasn't 100% committed to anything, but I was pretty sure I wanted my master bedroom to have a soft green/cream scheme as inspired by the master bedroom from Sarah's House in the image below. [I'm obsessed with Sarah's House!]


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It just looked so soft and romantic that I wanted to replicate it in our master, but I had no such luck finding the same tones at the fabric store.

Time to come up with a new inspiration....