It was a long week of home renovations. Per usual, I always grossly underestimate how much time and energy a project will take. We were running on little sleep and too much caffeine by the time we finished, but our room? Oh my. It’s like we imported it from another house. Hardly recognizable compared to what it was before. Let me just remind you what that looked like…
And now? This…
In my “before” post, I mentioned that Sherwin-Williams was sponsoring this series, and that I used their Chip It!™ service to come up with the color scheme of the room. I said our plans were to paint most of the walls Gray Shingle, and do an Indigo Batik accent wall behind the bed.
And we did. Both colors were from HGTV® HOME by Sherwin-Williams. It looked… it looked like we would probably like it after we got used to it. Really, the Indigo Batik was just SO much darker and bluer than we were anticipating, and the wall behind our bed is big, so it was a pretty powerful statement. I was okay with it, though. I found fabrics that would tie it all together. I was prepared to bring in a lot of white to brighten up the space.
I was 85% committed to it at 12:30am when Scott, as he was finishing painting some Indigo Batik trim, casually mentioned, “Huh… people are going to think we’re huge Cowboys fans.” I looked at him confused. It was late. I was delirious. I thought surely he was, too.
“What?” He nodded toward the blue wall, “Oh, navy blue and gray walls…” “Oh. My. God. I HATE IT,” I blurted out.
Let me clarify that we live in Dallas, and I am NOT saying we are anti-Cowboys. We root for them when it’s convenient and fun. But… we live in Dallas, and we are NOT die hard Cowboys fans. If we lived anywhere else, I’d let it go. But living here? It’s just going to be assumed that this room was meant to be a shrine to a football team. I couldn’t get past it. The next morning, Scott busted his butt to get the Indigo Batik wall painted over before the carpet installers came. The room is now entirely Gray Shingle, and I’m obsessed with it.
Now, this doesn’t mean we threw the whole color palette out the window, though. No, it was actually super useful pulling the room together! I wound up going a slightly different direction with the fabrics I used to accent the space, sticking with more of the navy and orange, and leaving out the pinks. This happened to coordinate perfectly with the lamps we already had (a clearance buy from Target last year).
(I’ll have another post up later this week with more details on the fabric, the frame, the duvet cover, etc.)
Also, YAY CARPET!
We painted our rundown side tables with Sherwin-Williams new ProClassic paint in Extra White with a satin finish. It’s a “waterbased acrylic-alkyd,” or, as explained to me by the super helpful assistant manager at my Sherwin-Williams store, a hybrid between water based and oil based paints. It’s durable like an oil-based paint but without the harsh smell and difficult clean up. Of course, we also added carpet. HUGE difference.
I told Scott I now know what that “new house smell” is. It’s fresh paint and new carpet, AND I LOVE IT.
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My master bedroom could use a makeover as well! We are currently working with our grandparents’ old furniture. We call it shabby-not-so-chic!
Gorgeous Jill, I’m in love with your headboard!! I would also makeover my master…it needs some serious help!
Our bedroom needs help as well. I have been itching to paint and redo for some time now.
Oh my living room. Beige on beige on beige…carpet, walls, couch, chair, drapes. It needs a color revival!
The rooms looks great! All of our walls are brown. My husband jokes my favorite color is “neutral”. We need some color!
looks great! i’m dying to redo both of our bathrooms right now. the ceiling on our master is a burgundy/maroon! gah! i’m already planning to use some SW paint so winning $100 gift card would be *sweet*! 🙂
We desperately need to make over our office! Since having our son last June, it has become the collecting spot for all of our random junk.
I would do our master bedroom too!
The playroom (which is the front room of our house) has been a work in progress for four years now and I am so eager to finish it! Second place would be our master bedroom.
I would LOVE to makeover our bedroom. I has a very drab off-white walls with nothing hanging on them. It’s the one room in the house we haven’t done anything to in the 7 years we’ve lived here.
I’d do our dining room – which is the first room you see when you enter our home!
Really want to redo our master bedroom now that the baby’s in her own room and we have it back to ourselves!
Oh It looks great! I am so glad you realized the “shrine” factor before it was too late! I would makeover my teeny – weeny bathroom — I cannot stand it in there!
I would love to make over our master bedroom! We are moving into our new house this weekend (YAY!!) and I am not loving the existing colors. I LOVE your color palette and would do something similar.
I’m really glad you nixed the accent wall. IMO unless there’s an architectural reason for it, it’s not usually a good idea. The update looks so fresh and welcoming! Great job!
Looks wonderful! I need to paint a couple rooms in our home soon!
Looks great Jill! We’d paint our master bedroom too : ) everything is builder basic beige still : /
I would love to make over my office. It would be amazing to make it into the office/craft space I envision. One where my creativity is celebrated and space for it is created. So I can just walk in and immediately start making something.
We need to get rid of the college vibe we have going on in our master bedroom!
Oh, I would love to redo our guest room. Right now it has brown walls and it just feels too dark! It also has a beautiful fireplace that is currently not functional, so in an ideal world, we would put a gas fireplace in there with plenty of safety features. The windows are original (1935) which is nice, but they need some TLC. Some built in shelves would be so lovely around the fireplace.
I would love to make over the master bedroom. It doesn’t have the pizzazz that it should. We’ve spent all our time and energy on the kids’ rooms, but neglected the room that should be our own private sanctuary.
Love that you used the photo of you two as inspiration for the room, and it turned out great!
I’ve been wanting to spruce up my bedroom. As a renter, it’s a little harder to do really fun things but making a bright tufted headboard is #1 on my list.
I would makeover our master as well! The kids room has all the love!
Def master bedroom. It’s always at the bottom of our priority list but it needs some love to pull it together.
I love the colors of the new room! I’m on a mission to have a grown up bedroom too. I’d LOVE to win!
I love the colors of the new room! I’m on a mission to have a grown up bedroom too. I’d LOVE to win!
looks great!
our family room needs some sprucing up! it’s our most used and well loved room in our house.
I also would love to makeover our master bedroom. Since we moved into our house 2 years ago, we haven’t done anything to it because we keep saying we are going to buy new furniture. We still haven’t and it is so boring! There isn’t even anything hanging on the walls.
I would love to win, our ENTIRE house is the same color and I’m itching for the chance to makeover our living room! Its the first room people see when they walk in our front door.
I’ve been meaning to look up that original post to find the link to the chip it thing on SW so I’m glad you saved me the trouble. :-). I’m excited to try it out.
I still say you totally did not use the pallet from the photo :-p but the important thing is that you are happy with it!
I would love to make over our living room…it is so dark and drab
We would love to redo our bedroom.
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I would makeover our computer room.
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I’m getting ready to move into a new house, and I’m looking forward to painting our new dining room. I’d love to win!
Uggh, husbands have the best timing when mentioning these things. Glad you said something, I would have held back. Our bedroom is in desperate shape, and we would love to win!
We just moved into a new home, white walls and oak trim throughout. I was lucky enough to get a Sherwin Williams gift card and have about 1/3 of the house painted (at most) – pretty good for a 7 + month pregnant lady. We REALLY need to paint the kitchen. We gutted it and now need to cover up all the walls that had cabinets, or where we ripped the wall out. Something bright would be good. Second place – our master. It’s currently 3 different colors as we try to decide what color we want.
I would love to make over our kitchen. We still have dark brown “wood” cabinets and laminate countertops, chipped tile floor, and oh my the flowery wallpaper.
I’d do the master bedroom. We’ve been in our house 12 years and the paint we used the first week is still there. And the walls are filthy. And it’s dark. I have no oasis, no specific room to come to and wind down. I know I could make the bedroom be that room I want it to be if I could just paint it, maybe get new curtains, act like I care about the clothes on the floor. That’s not really in Sherwin Williams’ ability, huh?
Our master bedroom is the last room we need to do in our house! It WILL get done by the end of this year…. 🙂 we have used SW paint in every room.
I would love to give our living room/my office a makeover. The old beige paint over textured spongy wallpaper really needs to go!
We are getting new hard wood floors on thur! Just pulled wallpaper from the entryway. Paint is next up! We already have our Sherwin William paint picked out!
i would make over my master bedroom!
It looks very adult now. We’re painting our house room by room, slowly. Next up is the living room, dining room, and kitchen. Thank God I’m short and ‘have’ to rely on the husband to do most of the painting. 🙂
Looks great! I would love to redo our master, it’s been on the back burner!
I would love to redo my entry closet – I had some construction done to take out an awkward shelf and had a closet built instead.
It’s all done except the painting.
Let’s not say that it was done 5 years ago please because that’s embarrassing!!
I have said it before- we are “before” bedroom twins… except mine isnt an after yet. I NEED this!
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Wow. I need this like 4 days ago. We just bought an older home and hired a crew to come in and scrape all the popcorn ceilings and re-mud those as well as the walls through out both levels of the house…and yes, we used Sherwin Williams Paint!
My daughters rooms were simply painted white so that once we got them new bedding we could paint to match that. My oldest, almost 9, picked Anthrolopgies Daydreamer quilt. We are going to paint an old iron bed the chartreuse yellow and the ceilings the turquoise color. So I’d really love that gift card.
I would like to do our kitchen/dining area. desperately! our bedroom needs a makeover too. we’re into 3 years in this house and the only thing painted is the upstairs (mostly cream) and the kids rooms. Help a sister out!-hopefully this doesn’t duplicate, because it wouldn’t post it before?!?
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Would love to win, so that my new home will have beautiful painted walls instead of white!
The boys playroom!
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My husband and I just bought a new home and we have lots of rooms to paint, we would love to win the gift card so our home will have our own stamp on it!
I would love to redo our powder room and foyer. Every room in the house we just moved into was painted white. We are changing that room by room. 🙂
I love the colors! We are closing on our new house (yay no more rental!) at the end of June. And get to create another nursery for my 3 month old who, sadly, has no room to call her own 🙁 Would LOVE to win 🙂
I would re-paint our main floor, the color we currently have is a little too light for my taste!
EVERY bathroom in my house! I’ve ripped the wallpaper off and now it’s time to prime and paint!
I’d like to makeover my bathroom.
We rent so we cant paint the walls. But I’d love to paint and update some old furniture in our bedroom.
I’d make over my bonus room which is the last of my home projects for a complete renovation. This would be a nice start!
I’d love to makeover our living room into something that looks stylish.
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I would makeover my master bedroom, same as you. That chip it tools sounds like fun!
Our kitchen is outdated and desperately needs a makeover!
i’d like to refresh the master bathroom.
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I would really love to makeover our living room.
My master bedroom could use a fresh look.
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I would makeover the living room.
We’re in the midst of a 5 room reno. I’d love to have any ONE of them done!
I would do my home office:)
I’d love to update our family room. We’ve had painting phobia since we moved in our new home, but recently overcame it when we set up baby girl’s nursery. Bring on the paint!
I’d love to makeover my daughters room. She’s not a little baby anymore, so I’d like something a little bit more kiddish looking. Something that would look good as she grows older.
I’d love to re-do my bathroom! It’s the room that gets the least attention around here 🙂
I NEED to re-do my office space. I work from home 4 days/week and spend more time in my office than in any other part of the house but it is in the basement (yuck) and has 70’s paneling that is like a weird greenish color?? ugh… oh and then there is the wall-o-shelves…no, not the quaint built-in kind, the brass brackets with shelves made from MDF. SOOO Pretty. Okay, enough, I HAVE TO WIN!!! PS… awesome make over…
Look beautiful I love the fabric. We have an office /laundry room that needs a good overhaul as it sits in the middle of our house
Master bedroom/bathroom…they have both been horribly neglected. So embarrassing.
Would like to redo my bathroom
The bedroom needs updating
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I’ve already picked the SW paint for our nursery- Olympus White. Thanks for the contest opportunity Jill!
I want to makover my youngest daughter’s room. It is blue now with a blue rug. I would love to tear up the rug and repainted it rasberry
My bedroom! Wait no…the bathroom! Those are the only two rooms in the entire house that haven’t had a paint job/redo.
I would like to make over my home office.
I’d like to redo the master bedroom!
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I tweeted here:
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I would like to makeover my son’s room
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We are moving our daughter into a new room- this would be perfect!
I just moved into an old Victorian home with wonderfully high ceilings – and a desperate need for new paint in every room! Needless to say, I’d love to win this contest! ….And I Tweeted about it!
My master bedroom needs a major update!
The bathroom needs a makeover! It is old fashioned and looks messy because of it.
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I was thinking bathroom but looking at these Sherwin-Williams posts I’m starting to think Master Bedroom! Maybe I deserve this! Our bedroom is the world’s ugliset puce color (I didn’t paint it!)
Our bedroom is in desperate need of help. The paint in there was poorly done and is not a good color and nothing in there matches anything else. I’d love to have a bedroom I wouldn’t have to close the door on when people come over.
I’d love to make over my finished attic. It has two dull guest bedrooms and a bath that are all painted beige.
I would love to makeover my master bedroom.
I tweeted– https://twitter.com/Sparklezstars/status/343080549356826624
Nice
Our family room.
i am about to have twins so i would love to make over their future room
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My bathroom needs a makeover!
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I can’t wait to redo the front room.. Love it
I need to do the den (badly). That’s the room that gets the most use, and it sure does show! A few years ago, the woodwork was painted, and obviously wasn’t prepped properly, so the paint has lifted, and looks simply awful. It’s impossible to wash, as it comes right off in flakes…ick. So, definitely the den…
I would like to makeover my kitchen.
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I would like to makeover my living room
Definitely our master bedroom. It is the room we have just ignored since we moved in here 4 years ago.
I would like to makeover my bedroom.
I would love to make over my bathroom. The wallpaper in it right now is super old and would love to take it down and paint the walls a nice beige color to go with the new tile I put in recently!
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My kitchen has wallpaper. Removing it and painting are the next items on my husband’s honey-do list. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I would love to make-over my kitchen. It really needs a face-lift.
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Our master bedroom needs a fresh coat of paint.
i would like to makeover our master bedroom
The bathroom…
I’d like to swap out my laundry room and 2nd bathroom! Too much wasted space in one and the other is way too small!
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I’d like to makeover our dining room…needs some color!
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I would love to makeover my outside room…the deck! I would love to paint the furniture out there and the deck itself and make it all new and different!
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/MsTofuFairy/status/344117417376612352
I also would like to make over my bedroom. Even just a fresh coat of paint would do wonders.
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Our kitchen needs a huge makeover!
I’d have to say the living room!
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I would love to makeover my exercise room.
I LOVE the color contrast you chose– very nice! I would love to make over our downstairs powder room with the Sherwin Williams gift card.
Was the gray shingle used on the walls flat or satin?