Windsor Terrace Reno

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January 15, 2008

The power of paint - part 2

As I mentioned in the previous paint post, not all of my decisions were good ones. Excuse my crudeness but I call this post the "skid mark" edition.

For the most part, I've picked various shades of grey, blue-greens and cream for most of the house. When it came time to pick the color for the hall bath on the second floor, I figured I should go dark just to add a little interest to the colorless bathroom. It has plenty of light - both natural (skylight) and artificial (recessed ceiling and over medicine cabinet fixture) and I wanted to pick something a little more interesting than the pale blue green shades in the rest of the bathrooms.

I didn't want to pick a totally different color so I went with one shade darker than the "greige" shade (silver fox) in our living room. It was a pretty dark shade on the sample but it seemed to have enough grey in it to give it a bit of an edge to a really traditional bathroom. And even the name of the color, stardust, sounded beautiful.

Much to my surprise and horror, that color is not gray at all but a Hershey color brown. It might be a beautiful color in another room but a milk chocolate shade on the walls of a bathroom conjures only one thought - poo!

I don't think this photo shows how bad it looked in person but it was legendary. It had to go.

Lucky for us, its a small room and it was repainted with some leftover paint. Even though its now a much more pleasing shade (beach glass), it will forever be known as the poo bathroom to me.

Hey - what can I say? They can't all be winners.

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Comments

I have to agree the second color is better but the first doesn't look THAT horrible, Maybe it is just the picture.... Everything is looking great - wondering how long this project has taken and how soon you will be completed.... and if you are willing to adopt me ;)

Posted by: guest at January 15, 2008 11:38 AM

Second color does look so much better. You're lucky the one decision you made that did not turn out fabulous could be so easily changed. Cannot wait to see more! I'm patiently awaiting kitchen posts. Well, actually not so patiently. lol Your posts/photos are so much more interesting than any of the many renovation magazines I subscribe to. Your choices are so tasteful and timeless and I absolutely love everything you have done so far.

Posted by: guest at January 15, 2008 6:53 PM

Thanks so much. Really appreciate such nice feedback. I will admit that Ive gotten a few nasty posts on this blog (not about my choices b/c I can take that - more like personal attacks) that have made me consider deleting the whole thing but the kind words really help me feel better about it.

I think the picture doesn't really do it justice - it was bad.

Posted by: Mrs. Limestone at January 16, 2008 9:26 AM

I second (third) the nice comments and want to add that your photos are terrific too. What camera do you use?

Posted by: guest at January 16, 2008 9:58 AM

Thanks guest@958. I use a Nikon D50.

Posted by: Mrs. Limestone at January 16, 2008 2:35 PM

The morons who attack you are just jealous! Please don't ever deprive the rest of us because of their idiotic behavior. By the way I'm quite jealous myself. lol I hope you get to review the posts re your renovation before they are posted and also get to decide if you want them posted at all. If not, this definitely should be made to be the protocal.

Posted by: guest at January 16, 2008 5:12 PM

The exact same thing happened to me, only it's in my goose poop bedroom. You're lucky.

Posted by: guest at January 16, 2008 5:54 PM

I'm the odd one out because I really like the brown! Especially here with the white tiles, it's chic. I like the cooler, chocolate tint to this brown. However the green is lovely too, very restful.

Posted by: guest at January 17, 2008 11:10 AM

Long live the Poo Bathroom! I like the dark brown too... to each their own. Or, maybe even a blue-black.

Posted by: guest at January 18, 2008 7:04 PM