Studio Updates: Ground Progress, Lavatory Selections, Cupboard Paint Colours, and Again Entry Choices From Reader Ideas

First, let’s speak concerning the paint colour for the studio cupboards. I informed y’all just a few days in the past that I went to Residence Depot to seek out paint colours, and so they didn’t have something even near what I used to be on the lookout for. Their colours jumped from too purple to too pink, however what I wanted was someplace in between.

However a few days in the past, I went to Lowe’s (I don’t suppose I’ve ever purchased paint at Lowe’s), and so they had two colours that is perhaps simply excellent! They’re each HGTV Sherwin Williams colours. The darker one known as Tuberose, and the lighter one on the precise known as Jaipur Pink.

Right here’s a detailed up of them. It’s onerous to inform after they’re standing alone, however they’ve a contact of purple in them. And it appears to be simply the correct amount of purple with out truly studying as purple.

Shifting on to the ground, I lastly received the entire design for the painted checkerboard floor marked off, and I’m able to tape off the white squares and get these painted. If the whole lot goes as deliberate, I ought to have the ground completed by the tip of the day tomorrow.

And concerning yesterday’s post about perfectionism and the way it impacts me, I wished to indicate y’all precisely what it was that had me paralyzed for not less than half-hour (in all probability extra like 45 minutes) whereas I sat on the ground and tuned out of “actual life” whereas I prevented the ground and scrolled Instagram. It was this 3/8-inch discrepancy. The space from the wall to the primary level on the ground design on this aspect of the cased opening is 9 inches…

Whereas to the precise of the cased opening, the space is 8-5/8 inches…

Now concerning the toilet, I’ll attempt to make the wall design work. The extra I take a look at it, the extra I feel it’s the yellow tile that should go. I feel taming the accent tile by changing it with white will truly make the wall design look softer.

I’m nonetheless undecided if I could make it work as a result of the vainness colour must be modified. and the colours on the wall design should still find yourself being too daring.

However you possibly can see under the huge distinction between the unique course I used to be going with the studio, with the a lot bolder colours, and the brand new course I’m going, with the softer pinks. The vainness colour, very like the hallway toilet vainness, seems to be very orange in comparison with the pinks I’m contemplating for the studio cupboards. And compared, you possibly can actually see the contact of purple within the new paint samples.

And eventually, a number of folks recommended that I take advantage of the flower mural on the ceiling of the again entry since wallpapering the partitions is simply too costly for my finances.

I really like the thought of a wallpapered ceiling, however I do marvel if the ceiling is simply too excessive for that. I feel the ceiling is about 11 or 12 ft excessive, and except you’re standing within the again entry or very near the cased opening, the ceiling isn’t even seen. So I’m not 100% bought within the thought, however I do love the thought of a wallpapered ceiling.

The opposite reader suggestion that basically appealed to me is loading up these partitions with my very own artwork and artful creations.

(That’s an older image. The ground is now primed and painted, and prepared for the white areas to be taped off and painted.)

One factor I thought of was making a complete lot of resin petri dishes in colours that coordinate with the studio colours, and utilizing them on the partitions in a free “floating bubbles” design, much like the best way I hung the ceramic birds on the nook wall in the lounge…

…or how I hung the plates in Cassandra’s eating room MANY moons in the past. (Wow, that was 12 years in the past!)

However you get the purpose. It’s that random floating/drifting design that I’m speaking about, versus my commonplace “the whole lot symmetrical and sq.” design that I’m usually so drawn to.

So I’ve narrowed down the again entry choices to these two — wallpapered ceiling with a stable colour on the partitions, or paint the partitions a stable colour and use one thing like a “floating bubbles” design of resin petries everywhere in the partitions.

Issues are transferring ahead, and I’m hoping to get lots achieved on Thursday, Friday and Saturday!