Remember this view? Johnny’s Hideaway… in all of it’s brown on brown on brown glory???
This morning Ab and I hit the road for a three day cabin work week! Our every other week, Tuesday to Thursday, renovation marathon at “Johnny’s Hideaway”… OUR FAVE! Although I of course love design work and blogging and all, I genuinely love to get my hands dirty every now and again. It’s almost relaxing-ish in a weird kind of way to change it up and lay some flooring or bust up some old carpet tack strips. Ab and I blast Dermont Kennedy radio on Pandora and yap the day away. Work the day away too of course 😉
On our way up this morning, I decided to make a little pit stop at Benjamin Moore to (fingers crossed) finalize wall and trim colors for the open living space in the cabin. Paint is hard y’all… HARD. I’ve had my heart set on doing ever so slightly cream walls with a brown/blue/green/grey-ish trim for quite some time now. I’d found this gorgeous home on Instagram and fell IN LOVE with the exterior trim color and have since been on a hunt to find the “perfect” match. Trouble is that I had no clue what the color was and just as I said… it was literally the most beautiful mix of brown, gray, green and blue. Impossibly impossible.
Two weeks ago now I had gotten a sample of several colors and although on the paint swatch they seemed so very perfect… once on the walls they looked soooooo very blue or green. The brown and gray pieces to the paint puzzle were missing for sure. So back to the paint store we went! This time I found the color Secret by Benjamin Moore and it was JUST RIGHT! On the swatch it looked brown/gray but with the most subtle hint of blue/green. I also chose White Dove for the walls and got a quart of each. I also picked up two mini-rollers for a “little” sample wall. Once at the cabin, I got to work and loved it so much that I ended up painting a rather large “sample wall”. And I AM OBSESSED!!! Looks like we have a WINNER! Eeeeekkkkkk!!!
Well, a winner for the trim at least. I am 50/50 on going a little more cream/puddy colored for the walls. We shall see!
Oh and one last thing before I share the “paint reveal”, I really wanted a contrasting trim (crown molding) between the wall color and the wood ceiling on the main living room wall but there was only a tiny piece of trim. So I decided to try and paint the top piece of “shiplap” and that piece of trim the new trim color to see if I could fool the eye into thinking it is crown. And I think it worked!
And here’s the reveal of my little “sample wall”!
XOXO, Brittany Hayes
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