Need your Opinion!

So, Brian and I are preparing to paint the exterior of our home!  We're excited and daunted at the same time.  We need your help!  Below are a few ideas we're throwing around for updating the colors on our siding, shutters and doors.  We can't decide if what we've picked is wonky or right-on!  Let us know what you think!
There's a few so bear with me!

Classic French Gray w/ Needlepoint Shutters (1)

Storm Cloud w/ Black Swan (2)

Night Owl w/ Iron Ore, Decisive Yellow Door (3)

Peppercorn w/ Naval (4)

Proper Gray w/ Folkstone, Nappery Door (5)

Serious Gray w/ Web Gray (6)

Smoky Blue w/ Cyperspace (7)

Wall Street w/ Naval (8)

Ready, set, vote!  And these colors are far from set.  We may end up with none of these!

Bedroom Makeover: Frames

We knew we wanted to put something over the bed.  We tossed around a few ideas and settled with a frame collage.  We brainstormed ideas of where to get inexpensive frames.  We were working on a fairly tight budget for this project.  Brian’s mom offered some old off-white and brown frames that she had in her attic.  We pounced on them.
Once again, we turned to trusty spray paint to get them looking a little more modern and our style.  You’ll notice we chose another bold color.  As I reveal more of the room you’ll understand that the blinds and the frames are the brightest pops of color.  So we figured it would be ok to make them a statement.

I guess you get a better shot of the blue blinds here too.  Sorry, again, can’t give you a great shot because it would reveal too many other things. Once we got the frames on the wall we had to decide what we wanted to put in them.  Below shows what made the final cut.  In order starting clockwise from top left: Washington Monument, NM (some huge field, sorry Bec can’t remember the name of it), Ferris Wheel on Santa Monica pier, wedding photo, NM sky, Savannah staircase, NM highway (it’s hard to see, even in person).

The frames may look crooked in this photo…but believe me; Brian did an excellent job measuring and leveling to make sure they came out juuuust right.  We like them. 

Bedroom Makeover: Blinds

So, another item we made over in the bedroom was our blinds.  We originally had these ugly orangebrown wooden blinds.

  Ick.

We saw this on Pinterest and wondered out loud if it was really doable to paint your blinds.  Our verbal processing went something like this:

DH: sure, let’s try it.
Me: really? won’t it turn out kinda crappy?
DH: nah, we’ll just lay them flat and spray paint them.
Me: what about the edges and sides?  we should take each slat out to paint them.
DH: good point.  and while you’re at it wash them off (they still had dust on them from our ceiling job we did 3 years ago…ack!)
Me: well, I guess here goes.  and if we hate it we can just go buy new blinds.

  There was SO much spray paint dust. Everywhere. Even got some blue boogers…

About mid-project, we realized these blinds, although ugly, were rather expensive being real wood and all.  Periodically had project-remorse until they were finished.

  What do you think?  Sorry; I would show you more, but it would reveal too much of the other make over items.  You’ll see them in a later post and if you don’t have an opinion yet you can let me know later.

I think it took about a week to get everything painted and cured.  We ran through about 8 cans of spray paint for this project.  Definitely wasn’t cheap, but way faster, smoother and easier than brushing them.

Bedroom Makeover: Chair

Done with the bedroom make over.  Have been for a while.  I’ve really not had time nor the energy or desire to sit down and edit photos and prepare a blog post.  But I’ll do my best.  The whole bedroom makeover was DH’s plan for a fun anniversary present to ourselves.  Instead of taking a trip we funneled the money into making our bedroom somewhere we’d actually feel comfortable and enjoy.  Overall, we are really pleased with how it turned out.  My photography skills are zero…so the pictures to come really don’t do it justice.  You will just need to come by sometime to have a looksee for yourself.

This fun chair Brian rescued from the dump pile at his work.  It was in sad shape.  Dirty, worn and old looking.  Nothing a little sanding and a fresh coat of paint couldn’t fix.  We stuck to our tried and true gray and it became a nice addition to the bedroom!

Forgot to take a true “before”.  But here is what is looked like with just the top painted.

And after, with a nice new pillow.

Happy Birthday!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN!!!!

Love you, husband!  I am thankful for you and so happy God made you 29 years ago :).

Love,
Your Wife