The Green Room

This room is technically the formal dining room that connects with the formal living room and has an entrance to the kitchen.  I knew right away that I didn’t need an entire room designated for formal dining (there is plenty of room in the kitchen for a large table) so I started tossing around some ideas to come up with a better use for this space.  My first thought was to make it a play room.  A place for Olive to keep her puzzles, play-doh, books, etc., but after the paint hit the walls and the furniture found its place in the room, it became apparent that this space would be more suitable for reading, listening to music, napping, etc.  A study room so to speak.

As of Summer 2010:

 BEFORE:

Before:

 Painting Process:

Just deciding on what color to choose was a project in of itself.

This was my first time doing a paint swatch test on the wall, and boy am I glad I did one!  We really thought we were going to use one of the two paint colors in the middle from the pic above based solely on the store’s paint swatches, but after putting the paint on the wall, neither one of those colors hit what we wanted right on the mark - one was too dark and the other was too yellow.  So we ultimately went with the one furthest to the right, a green that was neither too Chartreuse and modern, nor too pea green and 1960′s (even for me!) – Martha Stewart’s Cornichon, which after a little googling I found out is a type of pickle.

Olive really is such a great helper.

You can take a look at more pictures of this room on my Flickr site here.