Hit Refresh Design: Before and After

Monday, September 9, 2013

Front Door Refresh - Part Two

A while back I posted about our Front Door Refresh, when I painted our front door Benjamin Moore's Westcott Navy. That was back in January and although I loved the results, I wanted to try something different. In our home, you can see the top of the door when it's open, and I didn't really like how you could see where the navy stopped and the white started. So I decided to wrap the paint around the whole door a few weeks ago.

What do you think?

Before

After - Sorry for the terrible photo quality!

I have to admit, I wasn't completely in love right after I did it, but I think it's growing on me now! Either that or I'm just learning to love it because I reallllllly don't want to (a.) admit defeat to my husband or (b.) paint over that navy! ;)

Check out the pics below to see other examples of painting your front door's interior side:

Bright and Bold!

Katie Ridder

Design OCD

I painted my interior front door black...and I LOVE it!!!!

Abode Love

This only took a weeknight to do after dinner, so go for it!

Monday, September 2, 2013

Guest Room Revamp

Hope everyone enjoyed their long Labor Day weekend! This weekend sure was full of labor for me and I'm so happy I finally got to tackle one of the (many) items on my 'to-do' list...fixing up the Guest Room. Naturally, this decision happened Friday night, around 10 pm, with no plan, but a lot of desperation. This room, along with our bedroom, has been neglected and was in need of a mini-refresh. I'm definitely in no position to spend a lot to design this room right now, so I decided to do what I could on a tight budget, during a long weekend.

Here's the "BEFORE" before (yes, two "befores") pictures...when the house was purchased.

Yeah... IIIIII know

(in a Monica from Friends tone of voice)

Although, this room wasn't even comparable to one of the other bedrooms we now call the office. I'll save that pic for another post...because it definitely needs a post of it's own!

Anyway, my husband's friends lived here before we got engaged. So my father-in-law painted the room with left over Ben Moore, Shaker Beige. After they moved out, the room became a little less "bachelor pad-ish" but, as most spare rooms are, ended up being thrown together with random furniture and very little attention.

These photos were taken Friday night and Sat. am, when I was originally thinking of going the Navy Blue route...as you can tell by the paint samples hanging :)

Guest Room / Before

Guest Room / Before

Guest Room / Before

Old painted over wall art on the floor...nice touch, K.

As you can see, this room needed some work.

I decided to use Benjamin Moore's Chelsea Gray for the walls (as you can tell from my fan deck on the bed) and made sure to touch up the trim that was literally peeling off! As I said before, this was a super budget-friendly job. So instead of getting the paint from Ben Moore, I had Lowes match it for me. The paint was only $20 after a $5 rebate and I used Olympus Paint and Primer in one. I also picked up Benjamin Moore's Revere Pewter for the hallway.

So I took some pics today...please excuse the poor quality!