The "Wood Smoke" grey is blowing me completely away. I'm just in
love with the color - warm, soft, kind of rainy-day. Sets all my stuff off *perfectly*. The living room is done, and I'm in the process of doing the kitchen and dining room area right now.
But: photos! I has them! Well, some. Room photos will have to wait until my house is no longer a construction zone, and until I can get that ONE perfect photo that isn't screwed up by the light in the room being all weird (or until I find a really awesome new camera abandoned on my front doorstep or something).
For Now...
I am completely in love with the way the
windows in the back of the room are coming out. I love my wall o' windows: lots of natural light, plus a great thing to play with for someone with a curtain addiction. 0:)
This is the window corner before, with the "Matagorda" sand colored paint (yes, it's beige, shut up) and the old window treatments (cream-colored crinkle-voile, which I'd hoped might go with the grey, because I DO love these, but not so much: they just looked dirty against the new wall color. So I took them down, and one of the cats promptly peed on them while my back was turned. Mmm, catburgers for dinner tonight...).
You can see why light is an issue - when I took this picture, this room was so brightly lit by the windows that you might as well be outside. But the camera sees big bright squares of light with darkness surrounding, so that's mostly what I get when I try to photograph this room; the flash washes everything out, and turning lights on in the room only makes everything look yellow-y.
And here's an "after" shot - again, in full daylight, not that the camera can tell. Maybe it needs glasses. Poor thing.
The accessories have stayed the same; but I've raised the curtain rod up to 8" above the window frame (about 5" above where they were before); the white sheers are a placeholder. They'll soon be replaced with some in a different fabric, and a couple more layers of color and texture.
Another thing I'm digging here is the way I separated the single large window on the south wall into two tall, narrow windows. Demo & remo not included: I wedged a 1x6" board into the window frame between the top and sill, caulked it in place (so it can be removed easily later, should I change my mind), and painted it to match. This is a bad photo, but a decent shot of the nearly invisible line between the board and the wall above the window.
The metal mini-blinds (grrr) ride up and down behind the board. I'm working on making some brown linen curtain panels into roller shades to use instead, which will be hung in a pair to enhance the two-window look. (One day they'll grow up to be bamboo chick blinds).
I do love me a good illusion! From the opposite end of the room (not that I have a decent picture), three tall, narrow windows and the glass door makes a MUCH more cohesive architectural statement than two windows of completely random shape/size + door. <--- I really just said that, didn't I? Well, it does.
Anyway.
This candle lantern arrangement is one of my favorite things in the room. I love them, and I love the way they look hung in a group like this.
The accessories in this window corner hardly changed at all - the lanterns were here before, as were the giant Bird of Paradise plant and the sheer fabric screen.
(And no, the paint color's not this dark or cement-ish. That's the light thing again. Sigh).
One of the changes that did end up happening back here was that I placed three of my mid-sized deity statues in the windows, one statue centered in each window. I saw the idea online somewhere recently and decided to try it out. I
love the result - and that the statues are heavy enough that the cats can't knock them over and break them, hehe:
Hidden behind the sheers
The Buddha and Ganesh were raffle prizes that I won at the women's festival I
go to every year; the Kali & Shiva statue on the right was a gift from a friend.
But wait! There's more! For
tomorrow. MWAHAA. :)
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