paint colours and wall hangings (warning lots of pictures)

Here is my last finish from earlier this week in use. I'm not sure if the comfy factor is the chair we inherited from Chris's GG a few weeks ago or the quilt, but Grimace sure loves this spot while l'm working today. That chair is from Chris's earliest memories of visiting his grandma and one thing he wanted when she passed last month. It was his 45th birthday yesterday to put the age of the chair in perspective.

Dining room 

As I mentioned last post, we are in the process of painting our home. Gone are the Ralph Lauren Suede in deep grey and deep blue accent walls. Everything including the ceilings and baseboards are getting freshened up. We've started on the first level, the only wall we didn't touch was the Venetian plastered wall in the kitchen. It was the very first wall we painted in the house it goes perfectly with our floors and we still love it. (Didn't think to take before pictures)

We had a hard time choosing a paint color. Our house has been builders standard egg shell, cafe au lait, and gun metal grey (which turned out more blue than grey). The thought of going back to any range of those colors didn't appeal in the slightest.

Looking from entry way

We came across a color called white mountain which looked in the book to be a hint of a sunset on a snow covered mountain - up against the primed wall it looked like a shade of blue... So we went out of the box and started looking at cotton candy, blush ... light pink tones (not to be confused with peach). It was a leap off the deep end for us.  We knew it was going to turn out one of two ways - absolute brilliance or utter disaster. Settled on Behr Prism Pink. When the first strokes started drying I had a moment of horror. Against the white primed wall it was looking pepto bismal pink. As more went on the wall it seemed to dull & blend and look more like the colour we picked. We've agreed on a one year commitment to this colour. Both pictures were taken around 5 pm so there is a lot of shading going on especially with the second picture. As you can see we are a real mish mash of style when it comes to furniture choices ... that is an original 60's Seeburg jukebox on the edge of our dining room.

With the new paint job, we evaluated our love bird situation. They are incredibly sweet but messy!  Our walls need constant cleanup behind the cage. Solution - washable wall hangings. After evaluating the new colour I pulled out the extra squares from my grand mothers flower garden. I have those 3 jelly rolls of Favorites and another unopened 6 packs of Paris Flea Market on top of stack of squares from the original 6 packs, a bunch of cream and sage fabric of the already completed hexies. For a bed cover the combination wasn't what I was looking for but a wall hanging to go with our new paint colour - I think I can come up with something that will work nicely.

So back to work with Paris Flea Market.

I do have my next quilt pattern and fabric picked. From Fons & Porter March/April 2015 Quilting Quickly. I'm hoping to get started as soon as the wall hangings are done.

I'm waffling on starting the string bean challenge quilt. I'm just not loving options that I have in my stash to add to it. After my last fabric frenzy I've put myself back on a fabric buying diet ...