Down with blue! (again)

Now here's the thing, I like blue. I really do. It's a nice color. But we have SOOOOO much of it. And so many different shades. We'd already gotten rid of the giant blue wall, so once all the trip was up, it was time to get rid of it in the guest bed. 

So Matt dutifully caulked all the edges of the trim and any other gaps and replaced all the outlets from their ugly almond to lovely bright white. 

And then up went the primer and it already looked so much better. 

 Next step was picking paint colors. We knew we wanted to keep the wood around the window (to accent the new doors, more on that later) and we wanted to try something new with the trim color. Instead of doing traditional white, we decided to choose a color family and paint the trim the darkest color, the wall a medium, and the ceiling almost white, but tinted in that family too. Radical, I know.

We weren't sure we'd like it, so we got a bunch of color swatches and tested them out every which way. 

We finally settled on the darkest color for the trim, the second darkest color on the walls, and the very lightest color on the trim. Then we just had to get painting.