Y’all, I am champing at the bit to start my part of the work on the bedroom suite, and to be quite honest, I’m regretting hiring out the sanding of the floor. It’s my least favorite part, but I should have done it myself. I won’t go into a long story about it, but I have very little doubt that the sanding will NOT be finished today. I’m so disappointed because I thought it would be a two-day process (it would have been had I done it myself), and then I could spend tomorrow staining the floor. But there’s no way that will happen now. *Sigh* When will I learn? If I can do it myself, I should do it myself.
Anyway, after he left yesterday evening, I tested out the paint samples that I purchased for the bedroom suite foyer. I had previously thought that I’d just use the same teal that I’ve already used in the house, which is Behr Mythic Forest. It’s been a long-time favorite of mine, going all the way back to our condo days. It’s what I used in the hallway bathroom in the condo.
It’s the color that I used on the bookcases and doors at the back of the music room…
And it’s the color of the cabinets in our pantry…
It’s also the color that’s currently on the hallway bathroom doors, but you’re about to see why I needed a new teal for the bedroom suite foyer. So I picked up two new colors — Ocean Abyss and Tsunami.
The Ocean Abyss is a bit deeper in color, and the Tsunami is a bit bluer.
I tacked up the grasscloth wallpaper in the foyer, even though the grasscloth won’t actually be in here. And when it’s installed in the bedroom, it will be on the top portion of the walls with creamy white (Polar Bear) wainscoting on the bottom. The lightest stripe in the hallway is painted Polar Bear. Also, the two areas (foyer and bedroom) will be separated by that little hallway which will be all Polar Bear from floor to ceiling, including the ceiling in that hallway area. But it helps to have the wallpaper close when choosing a paint color.
I put Ocean Abyss on the left of the bathroom doors. And again, the bathroom doors are Mythic Forest. You can see how the Mythic Forest doors are much grayer in color, and the Mythic Forest also has a bit more green in it. It doesn’t go well with the grasscloth wallpaper at all, which is why I wanted to pick out a teal with less gray and more depth of color to it.
And then I put Tsunami to the right of the doors. Even though it’s a darker color than the Mythic Forest doors, you can see that the color is more vibrant.
Here are all three of the colors together. On the wall, it’s hard to tell a huge difference between Ocean Abyss and Tsunami, although Tsunami does appear to have more blue in it, while Ocean Abyss seems to have a touch more gray. But still, there’s not a huge difference.
Here’s another angle. This foyer is going to be deep, dark, and moody, which I love as an entrance to a bedroom suite. At least, I think I do. 😀 It doesn’t have any natural light in it right now, but I do still plan to add the solar tube back in this foyer. So it will get some natural light once that’s re-installed. From this angle, you can really see how dull and green the Mythic Forest doors look with the wallpaper.
I also have to consider that that the closet color will be clearly visible from the foyer. All three — the foyer color, the closet color, and the grasscloth wallpaper in the bedroom — will be visible together.
The current striped walls in the bedroom are so distracting when trying to visualize these colors together.
So I edited the photo above to cover up all of that mess so it wouldn’t be as distracting. Here’s the wallpaper, Ocean Abyss, and Clear Vista (the closet color option that is on the left in the closet).
And then here’s the wallpaper and Ocean Abyss with Tahoe Blue (the color on the right) in the closet.
I’m leaning towards Clear Vista for the closet. And I really like Ocean Abyss for the foyer.
It’ll be dark, but once it’s all done, I think it’ll be gorgeous. Of course, the bathroom doors (which I’ve decide will stay there because that room will eventually be the storage closet) will be painted Polar Bear, and all of the trim will be Polar Bear. Plus, it will have some natural light. And the wall where the grasscloth is tacked up right now will have a full-length mirror with a gold frame.
I’m not sure yet what I plan to do about the ceiling light. It’s not centered in the foyer, and that drives me a bonkers right now. I haven’t measured to see if it can even be centered, or if that will put it too close to the HVAC intake duct. If it can’t be centered, I’m not sure what I’m going to do, because it simply can’t stay where it is right now.
Anyway, you really have to use your imagination to see past all of the distractions right now, but that’s the direction I’m heading. I think Ocean Abyss is the winner for the foyer, the bathroom doors will be Polar Bear, and the closet will be Clear Vista (on the left). And the Clear Vista works beautifully with the lighter blues in the headboard fabric, which will be visible on the far wall of the bedroom. It’ll be right where that wide lighter teal stripe is on the wall in the bedroom.
I don’t know that I’d do such a moody, dark color in a main area of the house. But considering that this is an entrance into a master bedroom suite, I think it’ll be gorgeous.
But as usual, I reserve the right to change my mind on a whim. 😀 Who knows? The whole foyer could end up being painted white…or orange…by the time all is said and done. But probably not white. I have a hard time with white walls unless they’re covered in trim. Sadly, I don’t think there’s enough uninterrupted wall space in the foyer to do a whole lot of trim on the walls. But again, I could always change my mind. For now, though, Ocean Abyss is the direction I’m heading.
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UPDATE: This is what the colors look like with the overhead light turned off during the day, and with only natural light coming in from the neighboring rooms. These are straight from my phone, so I didn’t edit them at all. The area really does get quite a bit of light from the other rooms.
I painted these samples with a brush, so you can see all kinds of brush strokes. These walls are going to need a lot of work before I can actually paint them. So disregard all of the lines and brush strokes.
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
