A Pop of Color

I wish that I had realized 5 months ago how great it was to have color in a room.
Everywhere we have lived (rented) we have always had white walls, or some boring ole drab beige or grey.
We've been eyeing colors since about the time they put a  hole in the ground to build a home for us. I've scoured Pinterest, read blogs and would just dream of all the colors I want to put on the walls.
I think every time we would go to Home Depot, we'd go to the paint department and pick out colors.
And all colors.

Seriously. Haha! I had (and still have) visions for what we wanna do. Grey for the main color of the house.  A dark blue in the morning room. Some kind of grey in the master bedroom. I was undecided on the master bath, but we are thinking some kind of light teal color. The basement we've always known. But that's a bit of a surprise for now.  But, think baseball <3
The upstairs hall bath I want a dark purple with a grey tone to it.  The theme in that bathroom is travel. And the decor is black and white.  So, I envision the purple color going well with the black and white elements in that bathroom.
Not sure about the other two bedrooms yet. But hey, it's our house and we will be here forever, so we have time.
I want some kind of fun green in the laundry room. Not lime green, and not mint green... but something fun and bright. And it's the laundry room. No one has to like the green in there but me, haha!

So yeah... colors everywhere!
And we have started painting! We were SO intimidated at first, but now that one room is done we want to just paint, paint and paint some more.

We started with the morning room.  We still don't have any furniture in there (well, except a corner book shelf) so it is pretty easy to prep the room to paint. I bought some painters tape that had drop cloth attached to it.  Hated it at first til I got the hang of using it.  I've since bought more for all of our other paint projects, haha!

And now the morning room!
Here are some before photos:

And, the after!!!  The color we used is Behr's EXPRESS BLUE.  And I. LOVE. IT. It pops so well up against the white trim and doors and windows.  We need blinds in here still, but I still love the light the flows through too.  I also got some WHITE curtains that we'll hang up soon! But for now... the color and the morning room <3

Cody and Crosley really wanted to show off the new color <3

We also decided to paint the entryway from the garage (aka the mudroom) this same color.  I loved it so much and thought it would be great there too (and then the house in the middle {aka the kitchen} will be grey)... and I was right! I was slightly hesitant because we painted the doors black in here and I was worried it was gonna be too dark.... but I am so glad we painted the entryway {mudroom} blue. It looks amazing! I'll have to update soon with photos of the entryway bench and hutch that we have too.  It's white and pops so well off of the walls.  I have to attach the hutch to the wall and haven't had time as of right now.

This wall is where our entryway bench and hutch go.

Basement door

Standing in the morning room looking towards the garage/entryway

Gorgeous, right?!  And I just love the color. And I love that it changes color in the sunlight opposed to the lighting when it's dark outside. So pretty <3

We aren't done though!! We also have another project we decided to start. That's a bit of a surprise still as to WHAT we are doing, but we decided to paint the wall that said project is going on.
It's in the loft.  We put a couple sample colors on the loft wall to help us decide on our grey for the house.  I can't believe I had picked such DARK colors to begin with! We definitely need LIGHTER for the entire house.

Anyways, the loft wall is MISSION CONTROL by Behr. It's definitely a darker grey and we LOVE it here! We love it so much that we also decided that we wanted it on the foyer wall on the main floor. Again, another project that isn't finished as we have bigger plans for it... but it's started!

Pictures!!

Loft- before photos. You can see in the distance there our 3 color choices that we were "between"

Before photo of the loft

Loft- After! Behr Mission Control <3

Loft- Behr Mission Control "after" photo

And here is the foyer hall--

Before (standing in the "living room" looking towards the foyer-- front door is on the left)

Before- Standing at the end of the foyer looking towards the front door

After- (standing in the "living room" looking towards the foyer-- front door is on the left)

After- Standing at the end of the foyer looking towards the front door

Like I said, we have other "plans" for this wall before it's completely finished, but that hasn't happened yet.

I also painted the wall that is behind the downstairs closet in the foyer. It's the wall between the "living room" and "dining room".... I painted it SILVER BULLET by Behr.  This is the color we decided to go with for the entire house. A friend has their house painted the same color, which is how we got turned on to it.  And, it's a great light grey for the entire house.

I've since decided that I'll be painting this the same grey as the foyer wall.  I have plans that require white furniture and frames on this wall, and the darker color will contrast the white stuff perfectly.  So stay tuned on an actual fully painted wall, haha!

And finally.... probably the best painting we have done so far... THE BASEMENT.
We are Reds fans (baseball) if y'all didn't know that.  So the basement is gonna be a favorite spot for us.  All of our memorabilia, decor... it's gonna be pretty damn awesome when it's done.  I guess you can consider it a "man cave", but honestly? I love baseball just as much as hubby does.... so it's OUR man cave.

So- we painted the stairway in the basement RED.  It's Behr's 100 MPH, and it's amazing! I seriously feel like I'm in GABP when I see this!

Painting has seriously made SUCH a huge difference! I love the pops of color throughout the house and can't wait to paint more and finish up some of our projects!  We have also started decorating some of the areas that we've painted, and it's awesome!  I am loving making this house our home!