The lovely stained oak trim (original to our fancy-dancy home) has been twisting my brain up for months. Accustomed to cheap fiber board painted white, I was befuddled as to what color to paint the walls after we got rid of the dark maroon faux faux-painted wallpaper. What could I paint it that would lighted up our naturally dark room (which is also confusing: it faces south and west, and has large windows on both of those sides)? I went with my default color: light, light yellow. Though this same color looks just like what it is in the hall and stairway, in the dining room, this ended up looking like cream.
Back to the drawing board.
I ragged off a wall in our previous home in the now discontinued Ralph Lauren Duchesse paint (scored on the returned paint discount rack at Home Depot for $5) and loved it for as long as we lived there. Now Ralph Lauren has both a more subtle paint (Candlelight) and more not-subtle paint (Metallic). Since the Metallic paint would have the exuberance of a Great Dane puppy, and we here at the SlapDashery prefer to be more adult Golden Retrieveresque, I went with the candelight, slapped it up on the wall, and was bored.
That night, I went down to the basement to practice with the wealth of paint leftover from all the painting jobs done in our house since 1920--seriously. I found a lot of sludge, and one can of "Latte" that was used in our living room. While the color is a little dark for my tastes, I thought, meh, let's try it in a color wash. Bella!
This morning, I tried the Candlelight over my latte color wash, and got just the blend I was looking for: grownup, but with a sneaky touch of hyper.
Just like us!
Next up: what to do with the strangers in these frames.
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